Tue.Nov 21, 2023

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Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: How to Produce Smaller Doses Than Those the Drug Companies Provide

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S topping psychiatric drugs is often difficult. And in many cases, it is done far too quickly. Therefore, the patient may develop unbearable withdrawal symptoms, which the doctor often interprets erroneously as a relapse of the disease. It is important to know how a tapering process should be carried out. Unfortunately, very few doctors know that the binding curves of psychiatric drugs to brain receptors are hyperbolic in shape.

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Don’t Give Symptom-Free People Alzheimer’s Drugs

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From The Hastings Center : “A large government-funded study of solanezumab , an experimental Alzheimer’s drug that targets amyloid in the brain, has found no benefit in people with normal cognitive function who have elevated amyloid levels. The results of this long-term, definitive, randomized controlled trial should stay the alarming enthusiasts who have advocated drugging perfectly normal people who have abnormal amyloid levels.

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The Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation: Medical Expertise or Smoke And Mirrors?

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P sychiatrists used to not put much effort into diagnosing. Instead, they focused on getting to and working on the issues in their clients’ lives that were upsetting them. But all that changed when the 1980 DSM came out. Since then, diagnosing mental disorders has been one of their main focuses (prescribing medicine being the other). People pay huge sums of money for psychiatrists’ expert opinions, and their diagnostic evaluations carry great weight in court, school, the workplace, a