The Big Read
Between 1-in-4 and 1-in-5 adults in the UK are taking prescribed psychiatric drugs. This is a fact and is in no way meant to “shame”.
Tag: overmedicalisation
My response to this BMJ news article
Jacqui Wise states that a new ‘system allowing drugs to be approved in the UK by other “trusted” regulators such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is sparking … Continue reading My response to this BMJ news article
Are antidepressants overprescribed? Yes.
Recently, Dr Des Spence submitted, after more than a decade, a follow up to his 2013 ‘Head to Head’ debate in the BMJ with Prof Ian C Reid [see here … Continue reading Are antidepressants overprescribed? Yes.
Gilbert Farie: Ten considerations
This is an old piece of writing. It was written over a decade ago. The ‘Ten considerations’ are based on titles of creative works by Robert Louis Stevenson: Gilbert Farie, … Continue reading Gilbert Farie: Ten considerations
Flight of ideas
Squiggles Prosody (when and now) Syntax (arranged) Grammar (not to be silly) Punctuation (all in the timing) Peter DLROW being confident is not ‘me’. the lack of is my making Capture … Continue reading Flight of ideas
No remedy near at hand
An edit from an old newspaper report superimposed on a painting of Cornton farm, Bridge of Allan, by Peter Scott-Gordon.
outside the circle of listeners
In relation to the potential for psychiatric drugs to cause harm, the psychiatric establishment has kept itself outside the circle of listeners. This, my latest short film, is an artistic … Continue reading outside the circle of listeners
OUR UNSTOPPABLE PROGRESS
It was Roy Porter who first used the term “diagnostic creep”. Since his untimely death this “diagnostic creep” has become unstoppable. This short film is an artistic expression of my … Continue reading OUR UNSTOPPABLE PROGRESS