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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 2, 2022

BENZEDRINE

‘The Godwits Fly’ by Robin Hyde is one of my favourite books. It was written by Robin Hyde and published not long before her early death in August 1939. Robin … Continue reading BENZEDRINE

Categories: History of medicine, Medical humanities, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, suicideTags: A remedy for shyness, advertising is undoubtedly persuasive, amphetamine, amphetamines, Antiquary, author, authoress, Benzedrine, Benzedrine sulphate, Coroner, Eliza Hannay, Hannays, Hole Ousia, incredibly prescient, Iris Wilkinson, Kensington, may do more harm than good, New Zealand, overdose, Pembridge Square, poet, poisoning, Prescribed harm, prescribed medication, psychostimulant, psychostimulants, Social maverick, sudden access of energy, suddenly life was worth living, suicide, The Antiquary, The Godwits fly, The Lancet, took poison and turned on gas, unusually talkative

By Hole Ousia Posted on November 15, 2022

The ‘Chemical Imbalance’ Theory

Categories: UncategorizedTags: antidepressant, antidepressants, antipsychiatry, chemical balance, chemical imbalance, Defeat Depression Campaign, despicable, George Orwell, Good debate is respectful and constructive, Hole Ousia, Impact and Evaluation of the Defeat Depression Campaign, misinformation, misinformation on the largest scale, mutabilty of the past, myth-making, myth-making at its finest, Nineteen eighty-four, Prescribed harm, President, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Progress in Defeating Depression, Psychiatry, RCPsych, reductionism, Ronald Pies, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, social media, SSRI, SSRIs, stupendous reductionism, The chemical imbalance idea was never actually held by psychiatry, The defeat depression campaign, The impact of the Defeat Depression Campaign, the old idea that antidepressants correct a chemical imbalance in the brain is an over-simplification and we do not support this view, There is just the slight problem that such stupendous reductionism is myth-making at its finest, twitter

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 28, 2022October 29, 2022

Mind that child

Mind that child: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Opening audio: Storytelling – Sunday Morning, Radio Scotland, 23rd Oct 2022 Music credit: Big … Continue reading Mind that child

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Gilbert Farie, Omphalos films, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 'bird-coop of the muses', 1967, a fallen monolith in a field, a modern ruin, A study in literature and Medicine, abandoned, Aberdeen, adventure, all houses had their stories, All the light we cannot see, Andrew Robert Gordon, annotation, Arctic Monkeys, artists and activists offer hope for the future, ASTROV, Athens, AUDITIONS in PROGRESS, ballad, Big Ideas, Big Ted, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, Broom of Moy, By living we learn, By yellow lights tormented, chemical imbalance, Class of 1988, Class of 1990, Corsewall lighthouse, courage to care, Department of Medicine for the Elderly, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, DOME, Don Quixote, Dr Peter Gordon, Edinburgh, ethics, Everything is growing in our garden, first do no harm, Flight of ideas, Friends of Liberty, friendship, from End to End, funeral director, gate, gatekeeper, Gatekeeper [summer edition], gates, gateway, gentle gardener, George Orwell, Gilbert Farie, Gilbert Farie Revisited, Girnoc, Girnock, go seek adventures, Gregory's Girl, Hale Bopp, He loved the light itsel', He loved the light itself, he said another three thousand pieces of nonsense, Hippocrates, hippocratic oath, Hole Ousia, Howards End, hunchback, I cannot be equal I am humbled, I emerge now carrying all my yeaRS, I emerge now carrying all my years on my back, I had a project as a small boy, I sing what I feel, Ian Collins, In the Middle, In the middle of the yew, Iron gate sensitivity, It is by living we learn, It was a dangerous time to be human to fell or to think or to care, keys cut here, Kilmadock, King Kong, Language is the dwelling place of being, learning to love like this, legislators, lines with unfinished endings, Little Sparta, Little Spartan, lost, Lost Strathdon, Madame Bovary, Marginalia, Mary Midgley, miguel de cervantes, Mind that child, Modern Ruin, Mossgrove, my mind's full of things nobody else thinks about, Network 3, Network 3 [voices], Nineteen eighty-four, No more white coats, Novel, Nuillius in Verba, Oceania, Omphalos, Omphalos films, over and out, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Pawky Duchess of Lost, Paxil, Peter and Sian, Peter J Gordon, Peter's preoccupation with Wunderkammers, philosophy, poetry, Prescribed harm, primum non nocere, Psychiatry, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Radio Scotland, reality, rebel antiquary, reducing the world, renaissance, Renaissance of polymaths, ruin, ruins, Sancho Panza, sapere aude, Scottish Poetry Library, Seaton park, Series II Land Rover, Seroxat, shimmerin, Sian Fiona Williams, some gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks, something that could astonish an entire university no matter how learned, Sparta, Speak Memory, stories, story, story telling, Strathallan, Sunday Morning, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, SVS 978, Temple of the Muses, the anatomy of emotion, The Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, the gardener and geographer united from their domination by the engineer, The Gentle Gardener, the pollen count, The Rebel Antiquary, The Rules of Science, the sky is not little, The stories of a small glen, The Times, the two cultures, they marveled at his madness, through wastelands and crossroads, Tillybin, to be humbled, Transient Landscapes, transitional object, translation, trees moved only by their own courtesy, Two Cultures, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, two girls sing, ursine familiar, Ursine physiology, versos de cabo rato, Vivendo Discimus, well is there anyone who isn't tangent, what a lot of things you've strung together willy-nilly, Which novel has sold most?, with heart as gentle for distress, Woodend Hospital, Wunderkammer

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022

‘SIBERIA is home to’

NOTE: the blackboard advert was displayed outside a commercial outlet in Aberdeen. It was the reverse side of this. The NEON YELLOW PRESERVATION SOCIETY is a fictional society.

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Narrative medicine, NHS Hospitality Registers, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, suicideTags: #pillshaming, 'Highly validating', 103 Holburn Street, 108 Osborne Place, 124 Osborne Place, 147 Cheetham Hill Road, 178 Skene Street, 1984, 1984 George Orwell, 50 Huntly Street, 583, 7 Richmond Terrace, 88 Bon-Accord Street, A Profile of Mad in the UK, A S Byatt, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Asylum for the Blind, Aberdeen Royal Asylum, Across the country, across the country many who had backed the Neon Preservation Society were now raising concerns, aggressive use of nuance, Agnes Richter, Agnes's Jacket, Albert Camus, Allan Beveridge, An Explanation and Evaluation, An introduction to physical methods of treatment in psychiatry, Andrew O' Hagan, Animal Farm, anti-NEON, antidepressant, antidepressant. antidepressants, Antidepressed, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, Antony Schofield, artificial light, artificial lighting, ASTROV, Asylum Record, Asylums, Baroness Cumberlege, Behavioural Despair Test, BJPsych, Blind Asylum, blindingly artificial light, branding, Britain's Siberia, British psychiatry, Bugle Boy, But words shall never hurt me, By a certified Lunatic, by truly listening to its patients, By yellow lights tormented, C.P. 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