tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post4549060815123814250..comments2024-03-28T09:59:51.779-05:00Comments on Family Dysfunction and Mental Health Blog: A Stupid Study and an Even Stupider HeadlineDavid M. Allen M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06280912088483192599noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-58132283774372183032012-02-13T13:51:42.146-06:002012-02-13T13:51:42.146-06:00It is possible that young adults sometimes have a ...It is possible that young adults sometimes have a lot of energy? When I was in college, we would sometimes stay up to all hours doing fun things, going to concerts, dancing for hours, and then the coffee shop for breakfast at dawn.<br /><br />Oh, to be a young adult again!<br /><br />As for angry patients, could they not have a rational reason to be angry and hostile towards a psychiatrist? How about prior poor treatment by pompous fools like Dr. Akiskal? Contempt for patients breeds contempt for doctors.<br /><br />Bipolar disorder "unmasked" by adverse reactions to SSRIs? Yep, there was a fad for this for a while. Consequently, a lot of people have bogus bipolar diagnoses and are on unnecessary antipsychotics. <br /><br />I agree with Becky, it's a disgrace to medicine that the APA and its publications continue to endorse shoddy thinking like this. All dissenting psychiatrists should withhold their dues in protest.Altostratahttp://survivingantidepressants.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-74306895704639040402011-02-02T10:47:27.858-06:002011-02-02T10:47:27.858-06:00"if he was referred a depressed patient who i..."if he was referred a depressed patient who immediately displayed an angry, nasty attitude when they first met (I can't recall his exact words, but that was clearly the gist of what he was saying), then he just knew the patient was bipolar. Of course, patients who have borderline personality traits, as well as other personality problems, act like that all the time" <br /><br />Consistently defensive? Almost certainly. Constantly nasty? Not hardly. (Comment defensive, but not nasty.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-79068028142666025002011-02-01T11:24:41.115-06:002011-02-01T11:24:41.115-06:00Becky -
Hey, if it were up to me...Becky -<br /><br />Hey, if it were up to me...David M. Allen M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06280912088483192599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3125132926699584358.post-69518550735240218642011-02-01T11:16:19.875-06:002011-02-01T11:16:19.875-06:00How is this different from what the APA and other ...How is this different from what the APA and other journals do? Really. <br /><br />You can blame the drug companies, but without the APA being complicit--BigPharma would not have been so successful, now would it?<br /><br />It was psychiatric researchers, you know PSYCHIATRISTS who test drugs--and apparently, regularly lie about the results; and help provide a growing market by creating an ever expanding list of diagnoses, which require drugging. <br /><br />I can not help being skeptical when a member of the APA decries the over diagnosing of mental illness and the drugging of distress, but the membership just NEVER holds individuals accountable. Doctors that prescribe fatal combinations of drugs are not held accountable, doctors who lie about risks that disable and kill patients are not held accountable.<br /><br />Bullshit research is not redacted from journals.<br /><br />Biederman and Nemeroff are still doctors for God's sake! The APA has no MORAL or Ethical compass.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04985667747299418582noreply@blogger.com