Tuesday, September 8, 2009
This a quote from a subheading in one of my favorite books of all time, “The Peter Principle“.
But in fact this approach has a long and rich history.
I am just about to head overseas on a 2 month trip with my wife and 3 small kids – and leave my counselling practice unattended for all [...]
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“Would you like me to give you a formula for… success? It’s quite simply, really. Double your rate of failure… You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all… You can be discouraged by failure — or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all [...]
“There have now been six meta analyses in the last decade showing little difference between antidepressants and placebos, yet this is not commonly recognised in clinical practice.” – Medical Observer April 4 2008 pg 31
So says Professor Gordon Parker of the Black Dog Institute in Australia, who has long been a critic of “depression” as [...]
I ended Part 1 of this series by asking when someone might WANT to have anorexia.
When might you actually want to be repulsed by the thought of eating food?
Put another way, could anorexia ever be “useful”?
Well it is a standard question that I have asked of every so-called problem that I have been told about [...]
This website is about taking what I do in my counseling practice and bringing it out to a wider audience.
It also gives me a chance to cover topics that I only rarely get to mention for people who come to see me.
One such topic is self help for your financial future.
If you are going to [...]
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
With the recent studies showing antidepressants to be far less effective than previously reported, this leaves a big gap in the field.
What can take the place of antidepressants?
What solutions are already out there for depression?
What books, courses, websites, resources of any type are there for “curing” people who have been given the label “Depression”?
I’d like [...]
The commotion over the study that said anti-depressants are a waste of time for all but the most severely depressed people, has continued to escalate.
It hit the middle editorial pages of my local city’s newspaper, and that means the story is big!
Much of the criticism that I have read of this study has been badly [...]
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Good to see the recent spate of publicity for a study that hacks the legs out from under the antidepressant medication industry.
Currently the most viewed health article from the Washington Post website is about this study: “Only Severely Depressed Benefit From Antidepressants: Study“, and if you search Google News for the study’s author, Irving Kirsch, [...]
A friend of mine suggested I should write about Heath Ledger’s unexpected death.
In fact he suggested I should do some media publicity about the material I have about taking sleeping pills safely since Heath was found with sleeping pills and anti-anxiety pills in the room.
Well I wasn’t up for a media campaign, and I wasn’t [...]