“Robert Whitaker” – “Anatomy of an Epidemic”
Normal Thyroid and Testosterone Before Antidepressants. Abnormal After. You Are Not Alone. I want to address a question that comes up over and over in these groups. Yes, many people had completely normal thyroid and testosterone levels before starting antidepressants and then developed abnormal labs after getting on them or in the months and years…
This post is inspired after a conversation with by my ex-husband, who was prescribed medication during a season of depression tied to a life event—not because of a lifelong chemical imbalance, as pharmaceutical companies and far too many doctors want people to believe. When we talk about “success stories,” most of us picture something very…
The $35 Million Lie Your Doctor Still BelievesMost people have never heard of the STAR*D trial but it’s the single most influential antidepressant study ever conducted. It ran from 2001 to 2006, cost $35 million, and produced the claim that 67% of depressed patients can reach remission if they try up to 4 different medications….
Loving Through the Storm teaches about Mirroring and Smart Contact When a partner has been medicated, it can become difficult to communicate with them while they are under the influence. The loved one is medically spellbound due to the psychiatric prescription. As a result, you need a special way of communicating as the medicated while…
Said he married her because everyone else was getting married and it seemed like the next logical step. Said he’d been pretending for years. He said it calmly, almost clinically, as though he were reading from a report he had just discovered about his own life. She listened in silence, her body buzzing with confusion….
By Loving Through The Storm He didn’t lose his marriage all at once. It unraveled quietly, confusingly, in ways that never made sense no matter how many nights he replayed them. They had built a life together. 4 kids, routines, inside jokes, shared dreams. Like most marriages, it wasn’t perfect, but it was real. There…
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