ang Posted March 17, 2015 Peter C Gotzsche 'Deadly medicines and organised crime How big pharma has corrupted healthcare' (New York :Radcliff publishing, 2013) Gotzsche is a world leader in critquing clinic studies. 22 chapters with 2 chapters on psychiatric drugs. He doesn't hold back he has a lot of damning words to say about pharma. His telling of the commercialization of prozac reveals a truly sickening story. http://www.radcliffehealth.com/sites/radcliffehealth.com/files/samplechapter/gotzsche_chpt18.pdf go to this link for a free chapter....... Chapter 18... a great read. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Meimeiquest Posted April 8, 2015 I think The Adrenal Reset Diet is the best book I've read on managing cortisol/stress hormone problems. It is about much more than a diet. And he acknowledges that adrenal issues start in the brain. It is a fairly simply written book and diet.For people with an underlying chronic disease that affects their recovery, my vote is for The Wahls Protocol by Wahls. Her illness is MS, but the principles are widely applicable.Still reading on chronic fatigue syndrome.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
btdt Posted April 8, 2015 Heres a book i have been slowly reading lately .. Peter C Gotzsche 'Deadly medicines and organised crime How big pharma has corrupted healthcare' (New York :Radcliff publishing, 2013) Gotzsche is a world leader in critquing clinic studies. 22 chapters with 2 chapters on psychiatric drugs. He doesn't hold back he has a lot of damning words to say about pharma. His telling of the commercialization of prozac reveals a truly sickening story. http://www.radcliffehealth.com/sites/radcliffehealth.com/files/samplechapter/gotzsche_chpt18.pdf go to this link for a free chapter....... Chapter 18... a great read. "THE BOTTOM LINE OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS How come we have allowed drug companies to lie so much, commit habitual crime and kill hundreds of thousands of patients, and yet we do nothing? Why don’t we put those responsible in jail? Why are many people still against allowing citizens to get access to all the raw data from all clinical trials and why are they against scrapping the whole system and only allow publicly employed academics to test drugs in patients, independently of the drug industry? Pushing children into suicide with happy pills above... people write books we read them nothing changes. Why indeed I notice he does not answer the question. I can't read it all just now eyes are acting badly but I skimmed it and did not see "anything new under the sun" it is all old stuff we have known for years. The paxil 329 study... was the perfect reason to launch a change yet non happened. I have little hope... but then again I am jaded. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
btdt Posted April 8, 2015 I think The Adrenal Reset Diet is the best book I've read on managing cortisol/stress hormone problems. It is about much more than a diet. And he acknowledges that adrenal issues start in the brain. It is a fairly simply written book and diet. For people with an underlying chronic disease that affects their recovery, my vote is for The Wahls Protocol by Wahls. Her illness is MS, but the principles are widely applicable. Still reading on chronic fatigue syndrome.... I watched Terry Wahls video on Teds years ago and used part of it to change my diet and life I would say I incorporated her ideas with another book on healing the liver they were not in contradiction. I did find I had good results while it lasted. Being hurt in the car accident meant I could not longer shop and cook like I did then... still have not gained back all it takes to pull it off. I do however recommend it if you up to it as it does take a lot of work and thought. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UnfoldingSky Posted May 4, 2015 Don't know if this one will be any good as it's not yet released, however in theory it sounds excellent... The Myth of the Brain Chemical Imbalance by Dr. Terry Lynch http://www.recoveryourmentalhealth.com/my-next-book-depression-delusion-volume-one-the-myth-of-the-brain-chemical-imbalance-publication-date-02-sept-2015/ Love the book cover... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anonymous4317 Posted June 23, 2016 Don't know if this one will be any good as it's not yet released, however in theory it sounds excellent... The Myth of the Brain Chemical Imbalance by Dr. Terry Lynch ... Looks like it was released. Has anyone here read it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nz11 Posted July 17, 2016 Anyone read the new book called 'The pill that steals lives' .? https://www.amazon.com/Pill-That-Steals-Lives-Antidepressants/dp/1786061333 It sounds a bit scary to me. nz11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nz11 Posted July 17, 2016 Don't know if this one will be any good as it's not yet released, however in theory it sounds excellent... The Myth of the Brain Chemical Imbalance by Dr. Terry Lynch ... Looks like it was released. Has anyone here read it? Yes i have . I appreciated being able to read this book and i recommend it. Heres an interesting thing Lynch wrote of: Lynch read through a heap of medical biochemistry textbooks at the medical school. He identified plenty of evidence of the abnormal biochemistry of diabetes but no evidence whatsoever of scientifically verifed chemical abnormalities in depression. These textbooks had little or no vested interest in maintaining psychiatrys dominant position in mental health or in prioritizing allegiance to their psychiatrist colleagues above truth. Textbooks on the basic medical sciences such as biochemistry are particularly objective in this regard. In reading this book i learnt what a false dilemma logical fallacy was. It is jam packed with great quotes. Adolf Hitlers propaganda officer Joseph Goebbels said in 1939 "Tell a lie a hundred times and it becomes the truth" Psychiatrist Meerloo wrote in 1949, "a lie repeated 10 times becomes believable and one repeated a 100 times exerts a hypnotic effect." pg 293. The law of the instrument Maslow 1964, "I call it the law of the instrument and it clearly may be formulated as follows ; give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding." In 1966 Maslow wrote "I suppose it is tempting , if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nz11 Posted July 28, 2016 Well i had Glenmullen's book 'antidepressant solution 'on my shelf for about 2 yrs now and only started reading it today. i guess its just been sitting there cos i thought oh it will just be the same old stuff i have read before. Well i really rec this book. As usual i am turning it into another heavily highlighted book. Im now half way through it. Yes there are a lot of things i have read before but that is totally ok to be reminded again. However im finding some gold im reading some things i had never heard before and will be useful to know so im finding it very informative. Too bad about the unfortunate title though. Sadly Glenmullen like Healy says he prescribes ssris. Gee i really feel disappointed when i read of those admissions. That's why i put Breggin at the number one spot on my heroes list and number two is Brogan. Both these people say 'I don't prescribe'. I wonder if Lucire prescribes? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Happy2Heal Posted March 8, 2017 here are some books I've ordered (second hand copies of) The reviews look good, I'll let you know what I think after I read them Bouncing Back: Rewiring your brain for maximum resilience and wellbeing by Linda Graham Hardwiring Happiness: The new brain science of contentment, calm and confidence by Rick Hanson Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cipramillion Posted March 18, 2017 (edited) I highly recommend this book, The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic https://www.amazon.com/Sedated-Society-Causes-Psychiatric-Epidemic/dp/3319449109 Can also be bought as an e-book from Springer. Edited May 9, 2017 by scallywag added book title Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UnfoldingSky Posted June 29, 2017 I haven't read the full thread so maybe this is here, though I doubt it...Anyone read this tome? Drug-Induced Dysfunction In Psychiatry by Matcheri S. Keshavan Seems it's probably a textbook and shockingly there aren't any reviews on Amazon... It's from the nineties, so it would be interesting to know what they knew about in the early days of SSRIs and were teaching in schools. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UnfoldingSky Posted June 29, 2017 I just realized you can preview parts of it, and it doesn't seem like they cover SSRIs/SNRIs. However there are whole passages on akathisia, TD, drug-induced psychosis, sexual dysfunction, etc... and other drug effects from other classes of drugs, early ADs, lithium, antipsychotics, benzos...So it could prove useful to anyone who wants to learn about these other topics. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nz11 Posted January 7, 2018 On 3/18/2017 at 10:25 PM, Cipramillion said: I highly recommend this book, The Sedated Society: The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic https://www.amazon.com/Sedated-Society-Causes-Psychiatric-Epidemic/dp/3319449109 Can also be bought as an e-book from Springer. Cipramiilion any choice quotes from the book you want to share. I think I might go to the library to see if they have this book. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nz11 Posted January 7, 2018 On 7/17/2016 at 2:38 PM, nz11 said: Anyone read the new book called 'The pill that steals lives' .? https://www.amazon.com/Pill-That-Steals-Lives-Antidepressants/dp/1786061333 It sounds a bit scary to me. nz11 I'm now on page 96 she writes well. I'm posting here to keep myself accountable to finish this in the next month! eek page 92 "They take me off the drugs...........in the middle of the night I ring my brother David. I'm screaming in agony. He tries to calm me down but neither he nor I understand that now my mind and body are going through indescribable agony from going CT ....." Can anyone relate to this? I know I sure can. I didn't ring my brother I rang my father and it was 1am! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nevertoolate Posted December 30, 2018 I was recently given a book called Rethinking Depression by Eric Maisel If you want to be given a whole new slant on the very existence of there even being such a medical condition and the role the Pharmaceutical industry has had in it it's a very interesting read. I found the very first couple of chapters extremely revealing almost light bulb moments. I'd love to know if anyone else has read it and what you're thoughts are. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Oliver1974 Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) I highly recommend the following book : Complex PTSD From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker. Don’t worry if you think or if you don’t think you have CPTSD, Trust me, it’s very relevant to so many of us here . Edited April 8, 2019 by ChessieCat reduced font 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShiningLight Posted April 25, 2019 The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
btdt Posted December 29, 2019 Grace E Jackson she has the goods.. the proof and has a book or two... https://www.amazon.ca/Drug-Induced-Dementia-MD-Grace-Jackson/dp/1438972318 and because for years I only read books about antidepressant recovery ect cause I would have no life without recovery.... this little gem https://www.amazon.ca/Better-Living-Pursuit-Happiness-Prozac/dp/014026521X in this book is described a trial on ADs on medical staff.... one pill I think with a glass of orange juice... sweet little test in its simplicity that may be worth as much as all those tainted drug trials... only after one person started talking about odd effects did other join in saying it must be a side effect I did not think that possible.... well guess what folks neither did we.... the drugs that change things all people thought were impossible to change with a drug... in a nutshell... I know I am signing to the choir and gave up trying to convince anyone else ages ago... been gone a long time think i will be gone a long time again wishing you all peace Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mstimc Posted December 29, 2019 Career Suicide is Overrated by Brian Knowler. A very short book with a limited publication run written by a Canadian aw enforcement officer who dealt with PTSD and depression. A great resource for those who work while dealing with behavioral issues, especially in high-stress jobs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Onmyway Posted January 2 Didn't see these titles here: The Body Keeps The Score by Bassel van der Kolk (trauma healing) Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge (neuroplasticity) The Upward Spiral by Alex Korb (behavioral changes that can rewire your brain to get you out of a funk) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
