Solving problems by using humor, denial, avoidance, delusions, and blasphemy, but occasionally slipping into the black hole of reality
Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons pointed out an article on TIME magazine’s web site and provided commentary.
I won’t be commenting on it, just providing publicity. Although the staff at TIME has expressly forbidden me to promote their magazine or be their spokesperson, they didn’t say anything about promoting their articles.
Continue reading ‘TIME: Why Antidepressants Don’t Live Up to the Hype’
The Couple’s Delight and the Giant’s Regret
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
Tue February 10, 2009
Once upon a great long time ago there was sand upon the land. The ground wasn’t so far away, and upon that dirt there was a man who stood upright, as most men do, when they’re not drunk or taking a bath. He looked about the sky for the sun and soon found it, hanging there like a demented moon who think’s it’s a sun. After the man found the sun using his eyes, he realized that in the past he’d made wiser choices than looking at something so very bright and painfully blinding.
As with all wise men, he quickly learned from his mistake, and because he was blind and wise, he never bothered himself to look at the sun again.
A few days after some clocks changed hands, he was cured of his blindness by magical forces and technology from the future.
Continue reading ‘The Couple’s Delight and the Giant’s Regret’
Addiction and SSRI Medications
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
June 26, 2008 – TIME magazine’s June 16, 2008 cover story by Mark Thompson was a detailed article about US troops being given antidepressant drugs to deal with battlefield stress. A quote from the article (p 41) states “The newer drugs have fewer side effects and, unlike earlier drugs, are generally not addictive or toxic, even when taken in large quantities.” This is false, and easily disproved. Ask current and former patients if they’ve ever had physical withdrawal symptoms after stopping use of an SSRI, or search the Internet for posts and articles written by patients about addiction to SSRI medication. Continue reading ‘Addiction and SSRI Medications’
Damned Tears
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
Sep 26 2005
For every joke he tells, there is a sadness. Each sadness buried by one joke. Once he thought the joke transformed the sadness, but the joke merely blanketed the sadness to comfort it.
It’s said that tears clean one’s eyes. If the the dam broke from all of the tears from his sadness — crying an ocean over the loss of his father, the loss of his child-hood, the loss of what-could-have-been-but-never-will-be, what he never knew, what he’ll never know, feelings he’s never felt, Continue reading ‘Damned Tears’
Painless Ways to Commit Suicide
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
Aug 03, 2008 – Suicide isn’t the goal society or your parents had hoped for you, but you’ve set the bar because you can think independently and have enough self-confidence to believe in your decision. My opinion though, is that suicide isn’t the best way to die. My preferred method of execution is either old age, or being taxed to death, generously and patriotically supporting the needs of your community and your country.
Because you have little time remaining, allow me to give you a friendly tip to save you some of that precious time. Suicide is severely similar to murder. Continue reading ‘Painless Ways to Commit Suicide’
Suicide Isn’t Always Selfish
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
October 3, 2008 – The following is a partial exchange between myself and the webmistress of Into the Rabbit Hole. After she wrote an article called Suicide – The easy selfish., I took time out of my unbusy schedule to put in my one-and-a-half cents worth. Read the article above for the full text, including all comments left by other visitors.
Gratefully, she and I have an understanding now; and we’re like peas and carrots, but without Continue reading ‘Suicide Isn’t Always Selfish’
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
December 31, 2008
I enjoy watching television, but sometimes I must limit myself. Subtle changes in my behavior and social skills have appeared recently. To benefit mankind I’m issuing this document as a warning on how to detect potential negative changes in your personality and how you communicate with other humans.
Three days ago my friend Depressed Dave asked me what my plans were for the weekend. I slowly raised my head, looked him in the eye and in a deep, scratchy voice I replied, “Plans? My plans will be revealed in due course. For now, be assured that once executed my schemes will bring forth everything we have ever dreamed of; the fruit born will be sweeter than you could ever imagine; and the way we view a sunrise will be forever altered.” Continue reading ‘Watching television excessively may damage social skills’
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: UPDATE ON the Mental Health Humor: Cartoon-a-thon
To: Andy Alt
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:50:36 -0400
From: Chato B. Stewart
Organization: Mental Health humor
Dear Peer, Provider or Caregiver,
Wow, what a great Mental Health Awareness month! This year so many
people are really putting in a lot of effort from the DBSA, NAMI and
many other organizations like Mental Health America and also not to for
get many of our peers and their individual efforts.
The Mental Health Humor Cartoon-A-Thon is a free and fun project to use
humor as a coping skill. Each day during the month I’ve volunteered to
draw one cartoon. Now we have 26 new cartoons for this month to use
humor to bring awareness to many different mental health issues. It’s
meant to use positive humor as a way to cope with our serious disorders.
Continue reading ‘UPDATE ON the Mental Health Humor: Cartoon-a-thon’
Life and Death are Forever Nothing
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
May 24, 2009
Death decaying in the smoldering, burning pit
Vile demons flying around a black, dusty corpse
Flesh ripped off by slimy filth-ridden vultures
Eternal torment a hair’s-breadth away
The latest from the blog of Alison Bass:
Alison Bass: Brown psychiatry chief Martin Keller to step down in June…
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While Brown officials insist that the decision to step down was Keller’s, my understanding from several sources is that the university has been under pressure to take action ever since Side Effects was published last June and Sen. Charles Grassley began investigating Keller’s undisclosed conflicts of interest in July. Keller is the latest psychiatry kingpin to fall. In recent months, Stanford’s chief of psychiatry Alan Schatzberg and Emory University’s chief Charles Nemeroff were forced to step down after reports that they too failed to disclose years of lucrative financial payments from the pharmaceutical industry.
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In addition, the American Journal of Psychiatry, the pre-eminent journal of the profession, just published a review of Side Effects,[...]
Alison Bass: Brown psychiatry chief Martin Keller to step down in June…
April Fools Day Gifts
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
March 19, 2009
Welcome to the Mental Dimensions gift shop. Here, you’ll find unique ways to entertain and delight yourself at the expense of other people and their sanity. These presents are sure to satisfy the most sadistic needs of April Fools Day gift-givers. Your purchase is guaranteed* or your money back**.
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a very popular gift; the first of which was a present from France to the United States (the rumors that it was re-gifted and was originally a gift from Norway to France have never been proved). The original is not available through Mental Dimensions, but an actual-size, genuine replica[1] can be shipped directly to your victim. Placement of their new Statue of Liberty[2] will create a logistical nightmare which will cause them to wake up screaming for many years to come. They’ll tremble with fear as they realize they’ll be forced into giving up every spare piece of acreage on their property. If they still don’t have enough room, then that makes your gift even more delightful, putting your friends or relatives into the awkward position of risking insulting you by refusing your generous gift. You’ll find it hard to hold back your giggling as you watch them stutter, sweat, and squirm as they attempt to politely tell you, “Thanks, but no thanks.”
Continue reading ‘April Fools Day Gifts’
Posted by Andy Alt / http://mentaldimensions.wordpress.com
January 11, 2009
A few minutes ago I stopped doing nothing long enough to pick up my most recent copy of TIME magazine. The following are some excerpts from an article about Borderline Personality Disorder (Click the link below to read the full article). BPD is one of the things I have been told I have.
According to this article, it’s common for antidepressants to be ineffective with patients who have Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Borderline patients are often overmedicated–partly because therapists see them as difficult–but for Lily, as for most borderlines, the meds did little. “Drug treatment for BPD is much less impressive than most people think,” Paris writes in Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Continue reading ‘Treating Borderline Personality Disorder with Dialectical Behavior Therapy’
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions
March 8, 2009
On the planet Earth, there are millions of animal species. Of these millions, only humans are silly enough to think they can change the time of day using a law, and only humans are foolish enough to believe any such change took place. Extraterrestrial aliens are looking down on us right now saying, “Daylight Savings Time? What the fuck?”
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