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  • Induced Brain Damage

    Electroshock treatments for anything other than an attempt to wake a comatose patient are methods of arcane torture that do nothing at all except induce brain damage. Memory loss is brain damage. Most mental health disorders are subjective judgments by professionals of a non biological so-called disease. We now know that implants and remote access ...
    Posted to Explainer by femtobeam on September 17, 2009

  • Why must a diagnosis be a bad thing?

    Is it not manifestly obvious that more than half of all humans--indeed, closer to 95% of all humans--suffer enough so that a little help and validation of their suffering would not be a disservice? The problem, in my opinion, is not ''pathologizing'' but ''pathologizing pathologizing.'' Why must the former be negatively valenced? What ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by Quoirez on July 25, 2009

  • April: The Cruelest Month

    Your dotted lines failed to include the common thread in the crazy kinds of violence that increase in April. The common cause is mental illness. As a psychologist, I would like to mention that as the daylight increases it is common that people suffering from bipolar illness are inclined to move from depression to mania. It is often in this state, ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by susan lipkins on April 15, 2009

  • Re: Tobacco

    Tobacco is the only product that when used properly, as intended, leads to serious illness and premature death. 1. Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity (disease and illness) and premature mortality (death) worldwide. 2. Smoking-related ...
    Posted to Human Nature by hmhoon on January 29, 2009

  • Karma's Bitch Boy-YOU HAVE MISSED THE BOAT ON THIS ONE!

    Dear Prudence, I read the letter and your response to Karma's Bitch Boy today and am shocked and horrified by your response!! I do not know what, if any, professional training you have as a counselor or therapist, but your response was ENTIRELY INAPPROPRIATE for the following reasons: 1. In almost any state, the young man would have been a ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by alexmominmd on January 18, 2009

  • Deinstitutionalization

    It is not true that ''The movement for deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill—which contributed to the increase in homelessness among people labeled by psychiatrists as sick—took inspiration from such critiques.'' Deinstitutionalization, which was criticized by Thomas Szasz, was an economic decision by the states. Szasz has long advocated that ...
    Posted to Medical Examiner by nicmart on January 7, 2009

  • neuroplasticity

    I'm experienced some fascinating developments between neuroplasticity and psychotherapy. I'm happy to share what I've learned about this field but not in an open forum, for obvious reasons. If interested, please write to me at jeffrey.itell@gmail.com. It's eponymous. BTW, I was an early writer for Slate. I wrote for David P. at Wash City ...
    Posted to Human Nature by babkah on December 22, 2008

  • Sarah is a symptom of America's ignorance of mental illness

    She is the political equivalent of Britney and Paris, and, I believe, a very dangerous women. We have GOT to stop putting these people in office Compare her to this: Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the diagnostic classification system used in ...
    Posted to The Browser by redneckliberalpostbush on November 23, 2008

  • Hypocrite Extraordinaire

    In Texas Bush executed with pleasure a born- again Christian (like himself) named Karla Fay Tucker. Her problem was she confessed totally to her heinous crime instead of lying forever, like most of them. Her crime was committed while she was on coke/booze- something Bush did a lot of once, but still refuses to admit. Even the Pope and the ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by redneckliberalpostbush on November 23, 2008

  • My Father had Exorcisms Performed on my Mother (Long Post)

    I come out of a household of similar circumstances, and it's interesting how Prudie missed the context of this person's predicament. Her advice this week was uncharacteristically (secularly) righteous, and surprisingly wrongheaded, and failed to take into account the dependence issues that arise in families with bizarre religious beliefs, as ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by dunbain on November 22, 2008
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