Medication Madness

Your Turn with Kathy Fountain - Weekdays on Tampa FOX 13

Friday, December 26, 2008
Topic: Medication Madness
Guests: Peter Breggin, M.D. author Medication Madness

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Medication
• Madness
• Breggin

[nopsychs]

Absolutely right on target! Thanks for standing up on behalf of those who can't or won't.

[thepungentpundit]

Thank you. Keep speaking and educating!

[dannyboidj1]

@oliverthered but is it possbile for your brain to recover from antidepressants using them from 13-21 i needed it for ocd celexa to be exact, and was not on a high dose just 60mg now down to 20mg

[itamarberman]

@itamarberman 8. 8. The Dr suggests that hormonal factors caused Brooke Shield's depression, in part. This quite contradicts his claim that chemical imbalance does not exist.

To sum up, the Dr's comments are horribly non-scientific, misleading and at times quite ridiculous. Use scholar.google.com to check these things out, and I can ensure you that the majority of these studies has nothing to do with drug companies. I've taken part in many similar studies and funding never came from those.

[itamarberman]

@itamarberman 6. The Dr says the brain is too complex for medications to improve well-being, a claim easily contradicted by the abundance of research about psychotropic medications. I agree, however, that the effect of anti-depressants is quite limited in many cases.

7. The Dr talks about withdrawal symptoms - well, they clearly show that the medication had an effect.

[itamarberman]

@itamarberman 5. The Dr claims no research have ever showed a correlation between genetics and psychiatric disorders. This is quite outrageous given the abundance of researches who showed exactly this. It is true however, that depression has quite a weak correlation with genetics, compared to disorders such as bipolar disorder, for example.

[itamarberman]

@itamarberman 3. The Dr. claims we cannot prove chemical imbalance - well its pretty easy with the tools I've mentioned earlier. Many researches use them to compare healthy subjects against depressive subjects, for example.

4. The Dr claims the only known chemical imbalance is caused by psychiatric medicine. Well - he said earlier there's no such thing. Also, many researches have shown "chemical imbalances" with psychiatric subject which were not medicated.

[itamarberman]

Few points of criticism:

1. The Dr claims that chemical imbalance is just PR, but not only many researches showed how hormonal dysfunction nutritional deficiencies can cause such imbalance and depression, he later even contradict himself, as you will see by the following points of criticism.

2. "We can't even measure the brain activity" says the Dr. Well, EEG, MRI and PET are doing a wonderful job with measuring different aspects of brain activity.

[oliverthered]

Your brain is a very least a feedback loop, signals cause neurotransmitter release causes signals. now something like SSRI are pure evil, because they affect homoeostatic, basically 24/7 on MDMA or Extacy, also up and down regulation which can take many months or years for your brain to recover, just like opiate addiction etc.... Talk is free and cognitive therapies work wonderfully, though I would say that cheep, safe, one hit wonder Ketamine: a life saver on odd occasions. Food is a drug.

[dutytocareforothers]

Although Breggin speaks the truth about psychiatry he overstates his faith in psychology. Psychology is another useless field that is as useful as a weekly horoscope or talking to a very patient friend. You can view my profile and videos for more details and advice. I have also provided an excellent bibliography of suggested books.

[dutytocareforothers]

@BNNYWVH1 Jesus isn't going to solve anything. Be real for once.

[BlacksAreBeautiful]

At first I thought the host was playing devil's advocate, but its clear she is in agreement with the medical community on this, which should not be a shock to anyone considering who her employer is. Also, I don't think the good Dr. is not emphasizing nutrition enough. The amount of garbage that can be found in these processed foods has to be wreaking havoc on our brains as well.