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Think my web connection has “double posting disorder” sorry.
Bipolar medications made me realy sick, here is an interesting article on how its sold.
“But aside from these hazards, there are also grounds to question whether the treatment effects that some think have been demonstrated in bipolar disorder trials translate into therapeutic efficacy. If use of these agents based on demonstrated effects leads on to efficacy, admissions for bipolar disorder might be expected to fall, but the evidence for this is difficult to find. In North Wales before the advent of modern pharmacotherapy, patients with bipolar I disorder had on average four admissions every ten years. In contrast, against a background of a constant incidence of bipolar I disorder, and dramatic improvements in service provision, bipolar I patients show a 4-fold increase in the prevalence of admissions despite being treated with the very latest psychotropic medications [11]. This is not ordinarily what happens when treatments “work,” but quite often is what happens when treatments have effects.
The selling of bipolar disorder stresses that the disorder takes a fearsome toll of suicides. And indeed the controversy surrounding the provocation of suicide by antidepressants has been recast by some as a consequence of mistaken diagnosis. If the treating physician had only realized the patient was bipolar, they would not have mistakenly prescribed an antidepressant. Because of the suicide risk traditionally linked to patients with bipolar disorders who needed hospitalisation, most psychiatrists would find it difficult to leave any person with a case of bipolar disorder unmedicated. Yet, the best available evidence shows that unmedicated patients with bipolar disorder do not have a higher risk of suicide. ”
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030185
“But aside from these hazards, there are also grounds to question whether the treatment effects that some think have been demonstrated in bipolar disorder trials translate into therapeutic efficacy. If use of these agents based on demonstrated effects leads on to efficacy, admissions for bipolar disorder might be expected to fall, but the evidence for this is difficult to find. In North Wales before the advent of modern pharmacotherapy, patients with bipolar I disorder had on average four admissions every ten years. In contrast, against a background of a constant incidence of bipolar I disorder, and dramatic improvements in service provision, bipolar I patients show a 4-fold increase in the prevalence of admissions despite being treated with the very latest psychotropic medications [11]. This is not ordinarily what happens when treatments “work,” but quite often is what happens when treatments have effects”
“The selling of bipolar disorder stresses that the disorder takes a fearsome toll of suicides. And indeed the controversy surrounding the provocation of suicide by antidepressants has been recast by some as a consequence of mistaken diagnosis. If the treating physician had only realized the patient was bipolar, they would not have mistakenly prescribed an antidepressant. Because of the suicide risk traditionally linked to patients with bipolar disorders who needed hospitalisation, most psychiatrists would find it difficult to leave any person with a case of bipolar disorder unmedicated. Yet, the best available evidence shows that unmedicated patients with bipolar disorder do not have a higher risk of suicide. ”
What do you think of this report ? you can read the whole thing here:
. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030185
maybe it’s my browser being picky but also colon missing with the fighting antipsychiatry article too.
I’m using dashes. Are you not seeing those in your browser or do you just not like them?
– Natasha
LOL, don’t mean to criticize your HTML skills, just that links with just http// without the colon don’t resolve in chrome and didn’t think they would in other browsers either. Nothing personal, I used to be a web developer so take broken links seriously…
Oh!
OK, I knew I was missing the point. You meant in the html, I thought you meant the copy.
Thanks. I fixed the links. It’s not so much my html as much as it is WordPress bugginess. There’s this odd white square that shows up in the admin and it just so happens to cover the part of the screen where the links appear so it’s a hassle for me to check them. And for some reason it’s link-insert function wasn’t quite doing it’s job.
Anywho. Thanks for letting me know. I’m all terribly embarrassed.
– Natasha Tracy
For the article on “Is it really never psychiatrist’s fault” there is broken link since there is no colon after http and before the slashes.
Think you’re missing a colon in your link for psychiatrist article
Hi Marcela,
I might be having a daft moment, but I don’t see it.
– Natasha