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Depression and the Christian : 1 - The Crisis by Nancie .. Patient Expert

Posted Sat 13 Sep 2008 11:49pm (These series 6 messages on "Depression and the Christian" are also available on .pdf, .mp3 and video formats which can be downloaded from the website ofSermon Audio) DEPRESSION AND THE CHRISTIAN BY DR. DAVID P MURRAY (1) THE CRISIS INTRODUCTION Perhaps you clicked on the link to this video out of desperation. Perhaps, like ... Read on »

Patterns In Chaos: Child Psychiatry, Violence and Autism by Kim S. Patient Expert

Posted Sat 01 Dec 2012 12:00am By Andrew J. Wakefield Patterns in chaos: understanding acts of “senseless” violence (also available at The Academic Integrity Fund site. At the Royal Free Hospital, London, in 1996 my gastroenterology colleagues and I were reliably informed by our attending child psychiatrist, that acts of extreme violence, such as the ... Read on »

7-year-old commits suicide while taking psychiatric meds by kim m. Posted Sun 26 Apr 2009 12:32am This story at the Miami Herald saddens me. It also infuriates me. When are doctors and the FDA going to wake up? What will it take? How many more lives will be lost before this madness stops? From the article: Weeks before his death, Gabriel Myers, the 7-year-old Broward boy who hanged himself in the shower of his foster home, had be ... Read on »

God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever by Nancie .. Patient Expert

Posted Sat 13 Sep 2008 11:49pm Yesterday, I shared about how God's presence and His Words have been a comfort to me in my struggles with severe depression in bipolar disorder. Even though at times due to severe depression in which my brain was not able to receive the appropriate messages and I could not think or feel aright, God is still with me, He sustains me through very ... Read on »

Autism Induced "Excited Delirium Syndrome" - Or Police Brutality? by Harold L D. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 12 Sep 2008 11:31am A mom is suing police after her autistic son died following a struggle with police. Local police authorities, who apparently are also medical experts, stated that her son died from what they called "autism induced excited delirium syndrome" resulting in cardiac arrests. As the article indicates this purported "syndrome" is often used by ... Read on »

Shedding Light on the Darkness of Depression by Nancie .. Patient Expert

Posted Sat 13 Sep 2008 11:49pm (This article is reproduced with the kind permission of Religion Online.) Shedding Light on the Darkness of Depression by John H. Timmerman John H. Timmerman is professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He elaborates on his experiences with depression in his book A Season of Suffering (Multnomah, 1988). This ar ... Read on »

Brits finally grow tired o ... by John R. Posted Wed 17 Mar 2010 6:30am Brits finally grow tired of the bumptious Susan Greenfield The smart Jewish girl who got herself made a Baroness but still wanted more attention. As I also have said on various occasions, her colleagues say that she was more interested in self-promotion than in science. The last sentence below is a polite version of my view about the cra ... Read on »

Autism Induced "Excited Delirium Syndrome" ? Or Police Brutality? by Harold L D. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 01 Oct 2008 8:04pm A mom is suing police after her autistic son died following a struggle with police. Local police authorities, who apparently are also medical experts, stated that her son died from what they called "autism induced excited delirium syndrome" resulting in cardiac arrests. As the article indicates this purported "syndrome" is often used by ... Read on »

Calcium supplements linked ... by John R. Posted Mon 02 Aug 2010 3:24am Calcium supplements linked to heart attacks Another unwarranted "correlation is causation" assumption. There may be something in the theory offered but the effect is very small and could simply indicate, for instance, that people who feel in poor health are more likely to take supplements and it is the pre-existing poor health that lea ... Read on »

The church's attempts to hide its mental illness by Rossa Forbes Posted Wed 15 Jun 2011 12:00am Part II of Personal problems as just another consumer commodity Thomas Szasz famously wrote: "If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic." If a belief in God is evidence of a mental illness, then the ... Read on »