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Comment on Psychiatry Eponyms: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome by Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:11:38 +0000

Jennifer, I got no help from medical doctors for my son. Naturopath doctors are much more open to the dangers of mercury. I learned his mercury exposure opened the doors to him being more susceptible to fungi. I treated him naturally to detox from mercury. He was then treated naturally for crypto-fungus in the brain and his symptoms went away. I hope you can help him find relief. My niece had AIWS as a child and now suffers migraines which begin with the aura you speak of.

Comment on Psychiatry Eponyms: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome by Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:43:55 +0000

My son who is 21 is now telling me he experiences AIWS and has since a young teen. The doctor seems to think it could be a chemical imbalance. Cant you blood test for that. I have also read info on silent migraines that speak of the aura stage as being AIWS like.

Comment on Examination of the concept of ‘rational suicide’ by Lenko Oclair

Lenko Oclair — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:14:32 +0000

For those of us who suspect we live parallel lives, where one life is protected from the other, i.e., no memory of the other, the concept of rational suicide has minimal appeal. We are already moving on in the other existence. This life, may be little more than “dozing off.” The definition of death is where it gets personal. If you want the quote, unquote: “death experience”…then there’s no reason why your imagination should come into play. Settle for the minimum.

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Comment on An introduction to psychiatric medication by JC

JC — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:21:20 +0000

Hi, Once the dopamine receptors are blocked how long does it take for them to clear after stopping medication?

Comment on Interview with writer Will self part 1 by Joanna

Joanna — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:24:18 +0000

http://www.cchr.org/museum.html%23/museum/intro#/museum/intro

This museum supported by CCHR and Szasz holds psychiatry directly responsible for the Nazi holocaust. Do you not think that’s a bit extreme? We all know about medicines complicity with the Nazis but it was Nazi ideology which led people to the gas chambers.

Szasz has rudely shouted down service user activists at events in this country and refused to engage in meaningful debate with them despite their dignified treatment of him. You won’t find many user/survivor activists singing his praises.
He doesn’t believe in a welfare state, he’s right wing, I guess he can afford to be but he lives in a country where there is ‘workfare’ [slave labour] which is now here.

Please don’t compare him to Laing, he’s nothing like him and please look at the work of Loren Mosher and Romme & Escher.

Comment on Examination of the concept of ‘rational suicide’ by NonExist

NonExist — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:41:35 +0000

Edie you make an excellent point.
That is one of the main reasons i am choosing a self inflicted death.
Despite having family and friends the prospect of old age is nothing i want to deal with.
Having had to partially care for my elderly grandmother and seeing what she goes through just reaffirms my choice.

There also is a vanity issue involved as well. I enjoy looking youthful and healthy per a good diet and exercise regimen. However past a certain age no matter what one does the deterioration will still hit.

And I would rather go out still youthful and kicking that to just hang around until I can barely do for myself anymore.

As mentioned in the article suicide is one of the ultimate freedoms. To choose one’s own end. And if you look at some spiritual beliefs and even some societal mores people oppose it because they think you owe some deity or others something.

As my grandfather, father, and uncles told me “The world owes me nothing.” So to me that means that I owe the world nothing either.

Shame on those who prosecuted Dr. Kevorkian. Mouth breathing degenerate hairless apes.

Comment on Examination of the concept of ‘rational suicide’ by Edie

Edie — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:04:31 +0000

There is no medical cure for old age. Moreover, old age accompanied by the lack of any social support system: No friends, no family, and no intimate relationships.

You may want to review Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs.

What does one have to look forward to: every day you look in the mirror and every day you are uglier. This is a world for the young; not the old. Even if you are vigorous and in good health at a certain age it is highly unlikely that you a going to find a companion. Who wants a relationship with another old person anyway. One ugly face looking into another ugly face.

It is simple mathematics! The odds of more suffering greatly outweigh the chance of finding happiness; assuming that you believe happiness can be found in old age. And don’t give me any pious talk about a Higher Power and the Life Hereafter. If there is one, I am sure I will suffer there as I have all of my life. That must be the way “GOD” wants it. HE must enjoy watching people suffer.

Comment on Guest post: The Art of Psychiatry by Interview with writer Will self part 1 | Frontier Psychiatrist

Interview with writer Will self part 1 | Frontier Psychiatrist — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:56:36 +0000

[...] writer Will Self came to talk at a conference I organised in November 2010. Here is a transcript of a conversation we had. I started off by [...]

Comment on ‘Sex addiction’ – David Duchovny by OrganisedPauper

OrganisedPauper — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:59:30 +0000

Thanks for the info. I always wondered where the difference lay.