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Posted by JaneB on February 22, 2005, at 18:47:29
"The Antidepressant Solution : A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and Addiction" [Hardcover]
By: Joseph Glenmullen
Posted by bruin on February 22, 2005, at 22:36:48
In reply to Have you read....?, posted by JaneB on February 22, 2005, at 18:47:29
The key word in there is addiction. I remember when I was told how benign and nonaddictive they were. Well, I found out the hard way they weren't and the only thing I wanted to do was give my fired shrink a 20mg Paxil suppository.
Posted by SLS on February 23, 2005, at 7:30:14
In reply to Have you read....?, posted by JaneB on February 22, 2005, at 18:47:29
> "The Antidepressant Solution : A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and Addiction" [Hardcover]
> By: Joseph Glenmullen
>Hi.
What are some of the strategies listed in the book to discontinue medications?
- Scott
Posted by JaneB on February 23, 2005, at 10:40:16
In reply to Re: Have you read....? » JaneB, posted by SLS on February 23, 2005, at 7:30:14
I haven't read it yet. A friend is suggesting it for me and ordered it from Amazon. Waiting for it to arrive. My understanding is that the withdrawal from AD's should be gradual with shaving pills if necessary. I just trust a lot of the input on PB and wondered if I had missed a reference to this book. I lost my good pdoc 4 years ago--the one who talked me into accepting psych meds as necessary for me as insulin is for diabetics. Now my life is relatively void of stress and I thought it would be a good time to challenge that diagnosis. Or else I must find a doctor to prescribe Zoloft and Klonopin (I have moved and my internist had been prescribing it for me.) I hate finding new docs. Especially with the stigma of being on psych meds.
> > "The Antidepressant Solution : A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and Addiction" [Hardcover]
> > By: Joseph Glenmullen
> >
>
> Hi.
>
> What are some of the strategies listed in the book to discontinue medications?
>
>
> - Scott
Posted by SamIAm on February 23, 2005, at 15:27:09
In reply to Have you read....?, posted by JaneB on February 22, 2005, at 18:47:29
> "The Antidepressant Solution : A Step-by-Step Guide to Safely Overcoming Antidepressant Withdrawal, Dependence, and Addiction" [Hardcover]
> By: Joseph Glenmullen
>Never heard of it; thank you for the "heads-up"!
SamIAm
Posted by bruin on February 23, 2005, at 18:22:04
In reply to Have you read....?, posted by JaneB on February 22, 2005, at 18:47:29
All these are good books:
-- Overdo$ed in America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine --
by John Abramson, MD
-- The Truth About Psychiatric Drugs: What the Pharmaceutical
Industry Does Not Want You to Know
-- Reclaiming Our Children.
-- Your Drug May Be Your Problem
-- Talking Back to Ritalin Revised
-- The Antidepressant Fact Book
-- Toxic Psychiatry
-- Talking Back to Prozac
-- Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry
-- Psychiatric Drugs : Hazards to the Brain
All the books above are by By Peter Breggin, M.D.
(http://www.breggin.com/resume.html)
-- Prozac Backlash : Overcoming the Dangers of Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil,
and Other Antidepressants with Safe, Effective Alternatives - by
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.-- Prozac and the New Antidepressants : What You Need to Know
About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Serzone,
Vestra, Celexa, St. John's Wort - by William S. Appleton-- Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?- by Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
A treasure trove of information you will not find elsewhere.
Ann is a pioneer in revealing the true nature of antidepressant
drugs. Her website is listed abve and marked by **.-- The Antidepressant Era - by David Healy, M.D.
-- Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring
Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill - by Bob Whitaker-- Molecules of Emotion - by Candace Pert, Ph.D. A brilliant
neuroscientist who was lab chief for 13 years in the brain
biochemistry section at the National Institute of Mental
Health/National Institute of Health, and is now
ridiculed for her brash honesty.-- Listening to Prozac -- by Peter D. Kramer
-- Psychiatric Survivor- from misdiagnosed patient on a mental ward to
hospital director. The Autobiography of A. Mark Bedillion,
MS.Ed.,C.A.C.
http://www.psychiatricsurvivor.com/entry-1-book.html-- The Noonday Demon - Andrew Solomon
-- The Shooting Drugs - Prozac and its Generation Exposed on the
Internet - by Donna Smart-- Challenging the Therapeutic State : Critical Perspectives on
Psychiatry and the Mental Health System - by David Cohen-- The Manufacture of Madness : A Comparative Study of the
Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement - by Thomas S. Szasz-- Prescription for Disaster -The Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine
Cabinet - by Thomas J. Moore-- The Power to Harm Mind, Medicine and Murder on Trial:
The Westbecker Prozac Case - by John Cornwell-- Psychiatric Drugs Explained (second edition)
by David Healy, M.D.
Posted by Dr. Bob on February 23, 2005, at 22:15:53
In reply to More books to read, posted by bruin on February 23, 2005, at 18:22:04
> All these are good books...
I'd just like to plug the double double quotes feature at this site:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faq.html#amazon
The first time anyone refers to a book, movie, or music without using this option, I post this to try to make sure he or she at least knows about it. It's just an option, though, and doesn't *have* to be used. If people *choose* not to use it, I'd be interested why not, but I'd like that redirected to Psycho-Babble Administration:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020918/msgs/7717.html
Thanks!
Bob
Posted by Sarah T. on February 23, 2005, at 23:38:57
In reply to Have you read....?, posted by JaneB on February 22, 2005, at 18:47:29
An excellent book by Marcia Angell is "The Truth About Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It." You can read a review of it in "The New York Review Of Books" at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17244.
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