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By Hole Ousia Posted on November 21, 2022November 21, 2022

Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]

On the 25 February 2018 the following letter by Professor Wendy Burn, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists [RCPsych] and Professor David Baldwin, Chairman of the RCPsych Psychopharmacology Committee, … Continue reading Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]

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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 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.

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By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

‘SIBERIA: Live, laugh and join’

Last week, when in Aberdeen, I came across this sign for ‘SIBERIA’. It reminded me of several old contributions to hole ousia [copied below]: [1] SIBERIA [17 May 2019] I … Continue reading ‘SIBERIA: Live, laugh and join’

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