Life and Death are Forever Nothing

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

TIME: Why Antidepressants Don’t Live Up to the Hype

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.

Alison Bass: Brown psychiatry chief Martin Keller to step down in June…

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…

Treating Borderline Personality Disorder with Dialectical Behavior Therapy

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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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Pharmaceutical Advertisements

FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs (http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/23-fda-complicit-in-pushing-pharmaceutical-drugs/)

While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) turns a blind eye, drug companies are making false, unsubstantiated, and misleading claims in their advertising, often withholding mandated disclosure of dangerous side effects. Though companies are required to submit their advertisements to the FDA, the agency does not review them before they are released to the public. A Government Accountability Office report released November 2006 found that the FDA reviews only a small portion of the advertisements it receives, and does not review them using consistent criteria.
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See Also: Pharma kickbacks and corruption (http://bipolarblast.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/pharma-kickbacks-and-corruption/) (February 25, 2009)

New posts and articles and will be posted to Mental Dimensions

I’ve decided to give up my domain at mentaldimensions.net. Here’s my last post to the site:

I’ve decided to stop using this site, mentaldimensions.net, and put all new posts and articles back on my wordpress site at http://mentaldimensions.wordpress.com.

When I registered this domain name, I forget how much time and energy it took to have my own domain and web site, and for me, it’s not worth it. I don’t have the desire to spend so much time and effort maintaining and securing my own web site.

Dark Descent

Dark Descent
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions

February 23, 2009

Death digs into my neck with its sharp, bony fingers

On my way down the slippery slope past the point of no return

Hope lost like a grain of sand thrown in the ocean

Can’t trust anyone
because I don’t trust myself

Always doubting others
because I doubt myself

Crippled inside and emotionally retarded

Weapons of Darkness and the Dying Light

Weapons of Darkness and the Dying Light
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions

February 3, 2009

Loneliness crowding my peace
Seeds of torture growing within

Sword of despair on the left
Spear of hopelessness on the right
Drowning in quicksand

Escape merely a thought
Chains are the reality
No way to move forward
No solace in looking back