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[USA] Think Social Networks, Blogs Can’t Hurt You? Health insurers can use your on-line posts to avoid paying for treatment
Debunking the 'Chemical Imbalance' myth (pdf)
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Antidepressants (Note: requires registration of a valid email address)
Not Depressed, Just British!
recommended links
Depression Is Real Coalition
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ABIL: Agoraphobics Building
Independant Lives -
Agoraphobia and Panic
Disorder Foundation -
Anxiety Disorders Association
of America - Anxiety Network Australia
- Anxiety-Panic.Com
- AnxietyZone
- Army Behavioral Health
- BrainPhysics - OCD
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Canadian Network for Mood
and Anxiety Treatments - Children of Hoarders
- Choices in Mental Health (UK)
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Dart Foundation: Gateway to PTSD
information -
David Baldwin's
Trauma Information Pages - e-couch free personal self-help guide
- EMDR Institute, Inc.
- EMDR Network Japan
- Fear of Flying course (free)
- Healthy Minds
- Information for People with Anxiety Disorders
- Internet Guide to REBT, CBT
- Living with a Brain Disorder
- Morita Therapy
- Mayo Clinic : Depression
- Mayo Clinic : GAD
- Mayo Clinic : OCD
- Mayo Clinic : Panic Attacks
- Mayo Clinic : PTSD
- Mayo Clinic : Social Anxiety
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Medicines.org.uk - Anxiety &
Depression guides - Mind-Your-Mind Canada
- National Center for PTSD
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National Institute of Mental
Health (NIMH) - No Such Thing As Crazy
- OCD Action, UK
- OCD Ireland
- Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
- Open Minds, Open Doors
- Out of the silence - site for young people with mental illness
- Paniccure.com
- Partners With PTSD
- Prescription Drug Information
- Psychiatric Service Dog Society
- PsychNews
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Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy (REBT) - Sane Australia
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Shyness & Social Anxiety
Service of Australia -
Social Phobia/Social Anxiety
Association - Social Anxiety Support board
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South African Depression &
Anxiety Group - Suicide Prevention Help
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tAPir - the Anxiety Panic
internet resource -
The Panic Center (Free
CBT based programs) - The School of OCD
- UN-WHO Drug Trials Database
- U.S. Army Behavioral Health - PTSD
we support
"just don't smoke"
Yul Brynner
- Menthol cigarettes harder to quit
- Secondhand smoke in cars serious threat to kid's health
- Starting smoking young increases addiction risk
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Smoking doesn't slim girls;
stunts boys' growth - 40 reasons why you should quit smoking
- Pregnant smokers 'prime' their kids to smoke
- Smoking related coronary artery disease quickly reversed if young smokers quit
- Not ready to quit? Try cutting back
- Half smoking again within year of lung cancer surgery
- Cutting back 'compensation' increases toxin load per cigarette
- Tobacco companies upped nicotine level 11% since 1998
- Workplace passive smoke increases lung cancer risk
- Hooked by genes: The DNA sequences cigarette companies love
- Smoking causes long lasting changes to brain's bio chemistry
- Nicotine receptor stimulant trebles the odds of stopping smoking
- Bupropion, nortriptyline double chances of quitting
- Nicotine's powerful role in reinforcing smoking
- Pregnant smokers raise child's risk of stroke, heart attack
- Smoking linked to pancreatic cancer
- Neurobiology of Smokers' Cravings
- 'Low cancer risk' cigarettes as deadly as regular kind
- Quitting reduces lung cancer death risk by 70%
- Fetal nicotine exposure linked to teen attention problems
- Outdoor second-hand smoke exposure can harm
- Response to day's first cigarette predicts ease of quitting
- 'Healthy' children of smoking parents aren't really so healthy
- Children of smokers have up to five times higher levels of a nicotine toxin
- Smoking increases risk of dementia
- Smoking kills even after quitting
- Antenatal second hand smoke exposure increases child's psychological problems
- Smoking could kill 1 billion this century: WHO
- Just 1 cigarette can lead to nicotine addiction
- Smokers less likely to survive early stage lung cancer
- Smokeless tobacco delivers carcinogens more efficiently than cigarettes!
- Smoking permanently turns on genes that increase lung cancer susceptibility
- Secondhand smoke a health hazard for pets too
- Hypnosis for smoking cessation sees strong results
- Smoking doesn't burn fat
- Smoking linked to sagging breasts
- No evidence waterpipes decrease smoking harm
- Tobacco smoke + alcohol damage hearts more than either alone
anti torture campaign
- Torture experts write APA policy
- [APA] still rocked by torture debate
- Petition for psychologists
- AMA president says APA "did not accurately represent our ethical guidelines"
- Psychologists Aiding Torturers
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Annual conference endorses
APA's torture policy :( - Physicians for Human Rights call on Congress to vote No on Military Commissions Bill
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Torture is a Form of Trauma;
Trauma Causes PTSD - Psychoanalysts' association condemns torture use
- Humiliating, inhumane or degrading treatment IS torture
- Two American psychologists accused of war crimes. U.S. DoD investigating.
- DoD report proves psychologists central to POW/detainee abuse (pdf)
- 40 psychologists demand APA change policy on torture (pdf)
- Did the American Psychological Association turn a blind eye to torture for medicine precribing rights?
- Will psychologists still abet torture?
- Psychologist, Author Mary Pipher Returns APA Award Over Interrogation Policy
- Guantanamo Medical Role Likened to South Africa Under Apartheid
- The ethics of interrogation and the American Psychological Association
Deputy Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Lt. General John (Jeff) Kimmons, has stated that no actionable intelligence had been obtained through abusive interrogation methods in the last 5 years.
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New Jersey.
Dianette acne treatment/oral contraceptive linked to depression
Dianette Acne Treatment/Oral Contraceptive Linked To Depression
The British Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is reportedly carrying out a review of Dianette (also known as Diane 35) and the link to depression. Dianette contains two active ingredients, cyproterone acetate (an anti-androgenic progestogen) and ethinylestradiol (a synthetic estrogen).The UK charity APRIL (Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link) has compiled a dossier of reports from over 100 women who say that they suffered from severe depression whilst on the drug. Some have been taking Dianette for longer than is recommended and others have been prescribed antidepressants but were not advised by their GPs that the depression could have been exacerbated by the use of Dianette.
According to the report, the MHRA is particularly concerned by evidence that doctors are prescribing Dianette as a contraceptive in spite of warnings. In an email to Ms Kieve, who runs the charity, Jane Woolley of the pharmacovigilance risk assessment group said: "The MHRA shares your concerns over the prescribing of Dianette solely for contraception and has taken several steps in recent years to try to minimise this....The Patient Information Leaflet currently warns women with a present or past history of severe depressive state that their condition will need to be carefully monitored on Dianette and that depressive moods can sometimes occur in the first few months after starting Dianette. However we will be reviewing all the available data with respect to the development of psychiatric reactions in association with Dianette use. Any action that we take will therefore depend on the outcome of this review. In the meantime I would urge you to encourage the women/girls who contact you to either ask their doctors to report their symptoms to the MHRA or to report them directly through the yellow card system."
According to the BBC, the MHRA issued a statement which said: "Depression is a known side effect of Dianette and the product information contains warnings on this issue. The description of psychiatric reactions in the product information for healthcare professionals and patients is currently being reviewed by the MHRA. The product information (including the Patient Information Leaflet) will be updated if necessary. Patients who have concerns about Dianette should discuss the matter with their pharmacist or doctor at a routine appointment."
A spokesperson from Schering, who manufacture Dianette, said that: "Severe depression is listed in the patient information leaflet as a reason for stopping Dianette immediately. Depressive moods are also listed as a possible side effect. Dianette has been used internationally since 1985, and there is therefore 50 million treatment years of experience of use of the product globally. We share relevant data with the MHRA and patient safety is obviously of paramount concern."
APRIL has information on how oral contraceptives may trigger depression and what can be done to moderate this effect.
I have been on dianette for nearly a year and have been suffering from depression, anxiety and paranoia. i am so glad to read that this is a common side effect and have now been taken off it. I am shocked that I wasn't warned about this
I have been on Dianette for the past few months and I have suffered from depression paranoia and had panic attacks quite frequently! I have seen alot of negitive reports on dianette and am quite concerned that women are not warned that this can happen! I have now stoped taking dianette and since been feeling better, I realise its effects can however take a while to get out of your system.
Dianette made me very depressed. I have definitely felt better since I came off it and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
I was on Dianette for 6 yrs and recently came off it as my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer so I was concerned about the estrogen content, I have a history of depression(past 9 yrs) and definitely feel my mood is better since coming off it. I was aware of the warning that is in the pack but as far as I was concerned Schering were covering ALL possible side effects and also their own backs by doing so.
Yep, I developed anxiety and got panic attacks whilst on Dianne 35 ED from 2000-2004. Looking back at it, the anxiety started shortly after starting it. Same doctor who wrote the prescription for Dianne 35 ED (which i requested due to hirsuitism&painful periods) prescribed Ativan. Took Ativan for about a month but it left me feeling so unhuman, zombie and unfeeling that I went off it prefering the anxiety. I developed severe nocturnal asthma and allergies also.. I think it's got to do with vitamin B6 deficiency induced by Dianne, probably Ativan, probably the corticosteroids and ventolin I was taking for the asthma, probably the anti-histamines and decongestants I was continuously taking for the allergies, probably the glandular fever I had in 1999 prior to Dianne, and aggrevated by acute stressful periods, such as HSC, family leaving permanently to live overseas and getting married.
I'm now on my second 21day pack of Dianette and wasn't sure whether my mood swings and how upset I have been was because of just what's going on in my life right now, or perhaps the pill. But to be honest I'm still not sure, not that I don't believe it can, but because it's just the situation I'm in. We'll have to see. But I don't think it's helped with how I'm feeling that's for sure.