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Listen to My Interview on Depression, Stress and the Media on WGCU ‘Sound Off With Sasha”

By On July 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Go here to listen to an archived interview on the Sasha Show about stress, depression, the media, and modern times. It is WGCU SW Florida public radio. Friend the show on fb by looking for ‘Sasha Show’ or friend me here ‘Doug Bremner’.

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Do Antidepressants Make You Suicidal?

By On June 25, 2010 · 5 Comments

During my residency days Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) like fluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem), paroxetine (Paxil), fluvoxamine (Luvox), citalopram (Celexa), and sertraline (Zoloft), were pushed as being better than older drugs like imipramine, since they specifically acted on the serotonin transporter, and therefore didn’t have many of the side effects that were said to result from [...]

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Psychiatric Manifestations in Thyroid Patients: Guest Post on the Dear Thyroid Blog

By On May 11, 2010 · 2 Comments

YIKES! I’m going COMPLETELY BANANAS and I don’t know WHY??

I think that people are following me in the street… I fly off the handle and scream at my kids…

I lock myself in my house for days at a time… I feel so low I feel like someone needs to scrape me off the [...]

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Pharmawars. Episode 1, the Mommies Strike Back!

By On July 18, 2009 · 24 Comments

from @pharmawars

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Mommy Wars: John Grohol is Blocking My Comments from His Website So I Am Commenting Here

By On July 15, 2009 · 44 Comments

I posted a comment on John Grohols web site at 4 pm Atlanta time when there were 32 comments; now there are over 50 and he hasn’t approved mine so I am going to write from here (currently 9:11 pm local time). All I can say is thank god for the internet which finally will [...]

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Motherhood is STILL Not a Medical Disorder: Response to Critics

By On July 15, 2009 · 48 Comments

After I wrote this post yesterday called “Motherhood is Not a Medical Disorder” about the Mother’s Act, which advocates for widespread screening of moms for post-partum depression (PPD), something I don’t think is a good idea because it medicalizes a normal stage of life, increases the chances that people will be but on antidepressant medications that they may not need and that may have side effects, and represents yet another intrusion into privacy, I got this response from John Grohol at psychcentral (“False Claims by Bremner”).

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Motherhood is Not a Medical Disorder

By On July 13, 2009 · 54 Comments

This recent article in Time Magazine discusses the Mother’s Act, legislation initiated in response to the story of Melanie Blocker-Stokes, who leaped to her death from her hotel room in Chicago three months after the birth of her daughter. Officially known as the Melanie Blocker-Stokes Post Partum Depression Research and Care Act, but referred to as the Mother’s Act, this legislation would require screening of all women post-partum for depression.

The problem with this is the attitude that being a mother is a risk factor for a psychiatric disorder.

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On the Importance of Feeling Sorry for Yourself

By On June 9, 2009 · 13 Comments

Last week I was in Nashville and flew back on my birthday and reflected on that experience, and got some feedback from others. At the time I was reflecting on some memories from my childhood that weren’t that great, and at the time I simply allowed myself to feel sorry for myself and feel the feelings that were associated with the experiences I had had, as I perceived them.

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Twenty Per Cent of Americans Found to have Inner Feelings of Emptiness…

By On May 29, 2009 · 4 Comments

20% of Americans found to have inner feelings of emptiness……according to a recent study. Well, maybe not. But if I said that there was a study to show that, you’d probably believe me, right? The fact is that I don’t have any idea how many Americans have an internal feeling of emptiness, but whatever the true number is, it sure as hell is not going to make the front page of the papers, unlike an article like “Bacon Found to Increase Risk of Colon Cancer by 30%”…

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Authors of Bogus Letter Asking for Removal of Dissociative Disorders from DSM Dance Together Around a Maypole

By On May 1, 2009 · 9 Comments

Recently a bogus letter was written to the head of the DSM V Committee, David Kupfer MD, by several psychiatrists, arguing that Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) should be removed from the DSM. Here is the letter:

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