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Well, in another installment of “I wish they’d told me that a long time ago”, it turns out that SSRI’s can contribute to hyponatremia, a potentially dangerous condition in which your body doesn’t have enough sodium to regulate the water in your cells. It is believed that SSRI’s might contribute to at least mild hyponatremia in [...] I’ve been reading blogging by Scicurious (formerly of Neurotopia at Science Blogs, now at a blog called either “Neurotic Psychology” or “Scicurious”, I’m not sure which. She’s a post-doc in neuroscience, and she has posted in the past about various psychoactive medications and how they work. She writes about the two major classes of ADHD drugs, [...] The single suckiest thing about all my LD’s has been its impact on my work life. I’ve spent my entire working life underemployed at retail gigs and poorly-paid part-time teaching jobs. I have never had a job that pays decent money, let alone one that uses my skills or intelligence. My problem has been that my [...] Journalist Ethan Watters was on The Daily Show last week, talking about this new book “Crazy Like Us: the Globalization of the American Psyche.” In it he questions the usefulness of the American biomedical model of mental illness when its applied to the rest of the world. John Stewart jokes that this might be a [...] I don’t consider myself to be a neurotic person. I say this in spite of having suffered from depressive and anxiety disorders for years. These disorders are bona fide mental illnesses, and between that and a traumatic childhood, I spent several years in therapy sorting myself out. I have always been and always will be triggered [...] Since I was sick this week, I forgot to have my pharmacy order my meds ahead of time. As a result, I have now spent 45 minutes calling every pharmacy in town, looking for one that carries Vyvanse in 60 mg denominations. So far, nobody has it. And the place where I got it last [...] I’ve blogged before about the seasonal aspects of my ADD. Unsurprisingly, things have been even worse since the return to Standard Time (ptui!) and the loss of another hour of light in the afternoon. I’ve been more tried, more hungry, more spacey … and paradoxically, less able to get to sleep at a reasonable hour. “Attention” [...] Rickie Sugars is glad the study proves a link between learning disabilities and poor mental health. I have no idea when this story ran in the Vancouver Sun, but it’s worth a look. The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada has released a study on the long-term effects of undiagnosed learning disabilities. The results? Lasting psychological harm. I [...] |
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