For today, I’m pointing you to an EXCELLENT review/article about psychiatric diagnosis posted on the Powell’s bookstore site. I don’t see how the book itself could possibly be better than this review by Dr. Satel. If you are in any way engaged in studying, or practicing (or just interested in psychiatric diagnosis), you want to read this review. And, on a less scholarly and serious note, while I was looking at recipes online, I ran across a couple of nice New Orleans websites/blogs:
The Beatitudes
and The Gumbo Pages
And, somewhere on the Gumbo Pages site, I found a link to some New Orleans music, and oh, it’s nice. Take a listen.
thank you for posting that link. this is a topic that i think about often, along with a quote that has always resonated with me since i first stumbled across it:
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i'm deeply disturbed by how quickly we, as a society, want to create a pathology for organic responses to life experiences. i can't tell you the number of people that i know that have gone to their family physician after, say, a break-up and been handed a bag of zoloft samples "to try" - to "see how they work." as if you can just stop taking them at any time, that ssri's are something to toy with.
so very sad. it is difficult for me to get my brain around that.
another friend was in nyc on 9/11. he was having a hard time sleeping when he returned home and brought it up at a routine visit. his doctor handed him a sample bag of prozac. he never took it...
well done, supergirlest. Keep on questioning and challenging (I know you will).
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