In one of my previous posts, I responded to a comment where I say that 100 years from now, we'll look back on these times as the dark ages of psychiatric medicine. When I said this once to a psychiatrist, she was just astounded that I could think such a thing. Her view is that [...]
I emailed this to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune Ombudsman this morning.
Subject: New Strib: Hip, Now, and Worthless
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 07:55:53 -0500
To: readerrep@startribune.com
Dear Kate Parry:
As of 7:30AM on May 31, the #3 story on the Star-Tribune's lead web page is: "Couric makes today her last on 'Today'."
You have got to be kidding me. Seriously, you [...]
I've been hanging out on the Effexor forum on crazymeds.org, and I have to say, Effexor just seems evil (pronounced: "evieeel") to its core. Not that I believe in some outdated, superstitious concept of "good" and "evil" (except for, of course, The Force and The Dark Side); but in all seriousness, this drug just does [...]
Over the past 6 months or so, I've been slowly moving myself off my perscription antidepressants. I quit taking them all together approximately 2 days ago.
Back in October, I was taking the maximum dose of Effexor (375mg/day--a horse killing dose). In November, I started decreasing my intake of Effexor slowly, while also starting on Remeron.
I [...]