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 [...]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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 [...]
Saturday, January 12, 2008
There are so many people claiming the titles of Depression, or Bi-Polar these days.
There are certainly companies who spend a lot of time and money telling us that every possible emotion, other than a sort of flat-lined acceptance of inevitability is an illicit symptom of a pathology.
If your life seems dull and pointless, and you [...]
When people come to me and complain about headaches, they usually are quick to suspect their headaches are caused by stress or some psychological worry.
After all if they thought their headaches were caused by something physical, that a physiotherapist could fix for example, they wouldn’t be seeing a psychological self help guy in the first [...]
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
I want to change the world, or at least a bit of it.
So I’m giving some stuff away for free, and I’m wanting your help.
If you agree that people are popping too many pills in this world, or you just have an interest in helping people improve their lives then read on…
Working as a family [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
Survey after survey of doctors says that they don’t think that gifts influence their behavior.
Study after study says they are totally wrong.
The big pharmaceutical companies spend millions upon billions on advertising and promoting to doctors and one of the biggest ways they do so is by using gifts of all types.
Sometimes it’s pens, sometimes it’s [...]
Monday, September 3, 2007
Within the week I’m having a special 24 hour offer.
It won’t be posted on this blog. I will personally email this offer solely to those people who have already purchased one of my products.
This offer will be a one-off to say Thankyou to those early birds who have found me and already purchased.
Over this week [...]
It’s really interesting to watch this debate going on, especially when it gets into very high level medical journals like this Head to Head debate in the British Medical Journal here:
No: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7615/329
Yes: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7615/328
Depression in its various different clinical descriptions over the years has been claimed to be present in anywhere from 1% to 17% of [...]