Dr. Weeks’ Comment: I have not been able to confirm the use rate among health care practitioners (doctors, nurses and staff) at psychiatric facilities but AB Tracy suggests she has evidence that it approaches 75% . We also are told that almost 100% of orphans in state institutions and that children under Medicaid receive anti-psychotic [...]
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Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Old news. Had the ’scientific” journals reported the real and total science in the firest place, had the marketers not gagged the investigators (see the fiasco of how the unpublished data on Paxil bordered on the criminal) the fad of SSRI medications would never have been tolerated.
Where were the “experts” on [...]
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Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Intriguing concept but weak data. What do you think?
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Estrogen in the Fight Against Schizophrenia
ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2010) — Many American women are prescribed estrogen to combat the negative effects of menopause, such as bone loss and mood swings. Now, new evidence from a Tel Aviv University study suggests that hormone replacement therapy [...]
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Dr. Weeks Clinic: Some straight thinking about the relative worthlessness (compared to placebo or exercise or vitamin B shots or even tryptophan) of SSRI antidepressants. And yet more difficulty getting straight answers about … side-effects.
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The Antidepressant Dilemma
The latest news about antidepressants and depression is worth taking seriously
Published on [...]
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Dr. Weeks’ Comment: we offer a great remedy, Elemental HT which features 5-HTP with chocolate. It is a wonderful remedy!
New Evidence That Dark Chocolate Helps Ease Emotional Stress
ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2009) — The “chocolate cure” for emotional stress is getting new support from a clinical trial published online in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research. [...]
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Winter Blues may be Caused by Lack of Sunlight
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Many people report feeling blue during the dark, cold winter months. This dip in mood is thought to be caused by lowered levels of serotonin, a chemical in the brain. Serotonin levels are low in people with depression and, a new study [...]
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Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Are you feeling your soul becoming somewhat black and blue? Melancholia (dark bile) gives a black mood and the blues – well the blues ain’t fun!
Read about Seasonal Affective Disorder – SAD – which hits us when the days get dark and the moods sink low.
SAD
As a psychiatrist, one way I [...]
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Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Dr. Abram Hoffer, my mentor in orthomolecular psychiatry, used this agent with great success and with his collaborator, Dr. Harvey Osmond, he published in 1969 the definitive text : The Hallucinogens.
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Scientific American Magazine – September 24, 2009
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LSD Returns–For Psychotherapeutics
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LSD makes a comeback as a possible clinical treatment
By Gary Stix
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=return-of-a-problem-child&posted=1#comments
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Albert Hofmann, [...]
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Dr. Weeks’ Comment: A great teacher of mine, when asked what school of psychiatry she was in responded with a wise smile “I never know until I meet the patient.”
Therapy, like all responsible care, should be individualized – one size never fits all.
Here is an article highly critical of the current state of psychotherapy. Regretfully, [...]
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Dr. Weeks Comment: This is why we never treat a person’s cancer and instead, we always treat a person with cancer. And this is why the first question we address is the patient’s reason for living. If they have none, or if this flame is flickering, we tell the patient that the prognosis is poor [...]
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