After a Montelukast Withdrawal Syndrome post two weeks back, we had more comments than after any previous post - so much so that this seemed worth noting in a Post in its own right. After last weeks Transgender Meds, we have had fewer comments than after any previous post. This also seems worth noting in the form of a post. This is not so much a post as a series of notes … [Read more...] about Cis- and Trans-Drug Wrecks
Medical kidnap
Transgender Meds: A Call for Reports
This post is an invitation to report on drugs prescribed to transgender people. These include cross-sex hormones - testosterone for women, estrogen and progesterone for men, hormone-blocking agents like Lupron given to children with gender dysphoria to stop the physical changes of puberty, and other drugs like finasteride, spironolactone and birth-control pills prescribed to … [Read more...] about Transgender Meds: A Call for Reports
RxISK’s Ten Threats to Global Health 2019
WHO's Ten Threats to Global Health in 2019 have been much in the news lately - a kind of collective New Year's Resolution list. The 10 resolutions can be seen below. They have prompted an alternate RxISK list of threats. These are not listed in order of importance. RxISK's Threat List Sequestration of Clinical Trial Data. Most of what passes as science in medicine is … [Read more...] about RxISK’s Ten Threats to Global Health 2019
Even Politicians get killed by Akathisia
Editorial Note: - This continues our series of the lethal effects of akathisia running on RxISK and davidhealy.org - with special reference to Little Red SSRIding Hood and Even Docs get killed by Akathisia. Akathisia and treatment induced suicide took a political turn over the weekend, along with the issue of whether teenagers should be informed of these risks, when Ruth … [Read more...] about Even Politicians get killed by Akathisia
Changing a Medical Record 4
Editorial Note: This is the fourth in Krista Hartmann’s 4 parter on changing her medical records. See part 1, part 2 and part 3. On Becoming an Articulate Hand-Grenade Psychiatric strategy and tactics are based on faith-healing, replete with speaking in tongues (language), fortune telling (promises of happiness), and snake oil (drugs). Their model is the ABC’s of selling; … [Read more...] about Changing a Medical Record 4
Changing a Medical Record 3
Editorial Note: This is the third in Krista Hartmann’s 4 parter on changing her medical records. See part 1 and part 2. In the midst of chaos there is opportunity” Sun Tzu By June 2013, during the usual fail-replace-repeat treatment ‘plan’ of the state behavioral health providers, I found myself in the perfect storm of bad drugs and deadly ‘care’. Within a 2-week period, … [Read more...] about Changing a Medical Record 3
Changing a Medical Record 2
Editorial Note: This is the second in Krista Hartmann's 4 parter on changing her medical records. See part 1, Unicorn. "What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears”. Alice Walker When I encountered the psychiatric industry in 2004, I was a 53- year-old, sun-surf-beach chasing artist with a solid education and middle-class origins. I was a single, unconventional, … [Read more...] about Changing a Medical Record 2
A Unicorn: Changing a Medical Record
Editorial: This is the first of four posts by Krista Hartmann I am a real Unicorn, something whose existence is suspect, rarely sighted, and discussed even less…by the psychiatric industry, who are, ironically, my creators. My existence throws a wrench into their meta-narrative; truths inscribed on everlasting stone tablets.... until the next edition of tablets descend from … [Read more...] about A Unicorn: Changing a Medical Record
Changing your Record
If your doctor wrote in your medical record in the 1940s that you were mentally ill or had a neuropsychiatric disorder, this could have led to sterilization across most of the Western world, or in Germany to elimination. Long before a single Jew was gassed, tens of thousands of lives not worth living were eliminated at the hands of church-goers who were not members of the Nazi … [Read more...] about Changing your Record
Malignant Alienation
Gaming is becoming one of the biggest areas of human activity on the planet - bigger than movie-making, newspapers and most other media. Its power to shape the way we view things is clearly huge and likely to increase with Virtual Reality. Some weeks ago, a group released a new Escape from the Asylum game. They ran into a furore of criticism - they were playing to … [Read more...] about Malignant Alienation