I’m a 29-year-old man with a story I’ve been wanting to share for a while now. It’s not a story of misery or desperation, for which I am every day grateful. More a story of dissatisfaction, occasional crisis, and a desire to understand this whole affair of mental health.My upbringing was all a person could ask for, a… Continue Reading
Archives for May 2014
The FDA: The Fox Guards the Hen House
In their Fall 2013 issue, the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics published a symposium of papers by members of the Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. The symposium was called Institutional Corruption and Pharmaceutical Policy. The symposium focuses on pharmaceutical products generally, but all the material is relevant and important in the context… Continue Reading
Dr. Lieberman’s Swansong
As my readers know, I am a great fan of Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, President of the APA. In his capacity as president, Dr. Lieberman writes a regular bulletin in Psychiatric News. These literary and intellectual gems have been a wonderful source of inspiration to me in my efforts to draw attention to psychiatry’s flaws, and… Continue Reading
Driving Under the Influence of Stimulants
On April 22, I published a post on this general topic. In that article I pointed out that the notion of stimulant prescription drugs improving the driving of people who “have ADHD” was gaining traction. Since than I have come across two articles on this subject from Australia. (Thanks to Nanu Grewal for the links.) … Continue Reading