People say that your adult life is shaped by your childhood experiences.
Now I have my own young children I begin to recall all sorts of nursery rhymes, songs and tunes I haven’t heard for ages. What effect did they have on me I wonder?
I’m not sure that my mum singing “The Purple People-Eater” greatly influenced […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Fake pills and treatments are such wonderful things.
They work roughly 30% of the time, on almost anything.
With the technical term of ‘placebos’ they are the gold standard treatment against which every other treatment is measured.
And the whole field is shrouded in mystery.
Why do blue placebos make people more sleepy, while red placebos keep people more […]
This week March 3-8 the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) is holding National Sleep Awareness Week (NSAW, but SNAW would have sounded so much better.)
Had you hear about this week?
Each year it seems to be getting bigger so eventually you might.
Let me quote from the NSF’s “Sleep in America Poll 2008 - Summary of Findings”
“Long work […]
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 […]
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 […]
The first time I ever remember hearing about gambling was when I was given a Christmas present bought from a year’s worth of horse race winnings.
Later my parents explained to me that they were going along with the gift to please the person who gave it, but that the “winnings” weren’t actually that.
Basically there was […]