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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 - 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
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"just don't smoke"
"Don't smoke, whatever you do, just don't smoke."
Yul Brynner
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
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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Paroxetine (Paxil®, Seroxat®) and risk of suicide in adults
posted Tuesday, 9 May 2006
Paroxetine (Paxil®, Seroxat®) And Risk Of Suicide In Adults
The chairman of the British Commission on Human Medicines has issued a public health alert on paroxetine and the risk of suicidal behavior.The alert concerns new analyses of paroxetine trials which are to be published by the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which focus on the risk of suicidal behavior in the adult population, conducted as part of a review by the US FDA.
The new analyses highlight the importance of monitoring all patients treated with SSRIs for worsening of their symptoms or mood changes but do not alter the prescribing advice for SSRIs issued in December 2004 following the review by the CSM Expert Working Group on the Safety of SSRIs.
The new analyses are being evaluated by the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Until this has taken place, healthcare professionals are reminded of the previous advice that has been issued:
- Careful and frequent patient monitoring by healthcare professionals and, where appropriate, other carers, is important in the early stages of treatment with paroxetine, especially if a patient experiences worsening of symptoms or if new symptoms arise after starting treatment.
- Young adults (18-29 years of age) are at a higher background risk of suicidal behavior than older adults and therefore should be monitored particularly closely.
Comment:
This alert needs to be kept in perspective. As we've noted previously, the data supporting an increased suicide risk is not as clear cut as sometimes claimed, and at least one study has found psychotherapy treated children were just as prone to suicidal thoughts as those treated with antidepressants. OTOH, there is no doubt that anxiety disorders and depression themselves dramatically increase suicide risk, especially if untreated.
Talk to your doctor if you are concerned. Do NOT stop taking antidepressants 'cold-turkey' They should be weaned off slowly over a period of weeks or months. Ask your doctor for a weaning schedule if you intend to discontinue treatment.
This alert needs to be kept in perspective. As we've noted previously, the data supporting an increased suicide risk is not as clear cut as sometimes claimed, and at least one study has found psychotherapy treated children were just as prone to suicidal thoughts as those treated with antidepressants. OTOH, there is no doubt that anxiety disorders and depression themselves dramatically increase suicide risk, especially if untreated.
Talk to your doctor if you are concerned. Do NOT stop taking antidepressants 'cold-turkey' They should be weaned off slowly over a period of weeks or months. Ask your doctor for a weaning schedule if you intend to discontinue treatment.
comments (2)
1. Paroxetine hell left...
Monday, 20 November 2006 7:28 pm
www.paxilprogress.org
Visit the above website for all the current and up to date info on the defective and dangerous drug that is Seroxat...
2. Anxiety Insights left...
Tuesday, 21 November 2006 1:29 pm :: https://anxietyinsights.info/
Everyone is entitled to their view, but anti medication sites are all much the same, usually listing the same set of claimed horrendous side effects and dire warning of the consequences for those who are duped into taking them by evil, money grasping doctors. What you rarely find are viable alternatives to the "demon" drug(s).
Do some people have bad reactions to paroxetine? Yes.
Do some people have bad reactions to SSRIs? Yes.
Does that mean they should be banned? No.
For every drug there are a small number who are harmed by them. Antibiotics have saved countless millions of lives, but also killed more than a few. Some 12-15,000 Americans die each year from reactions to aspirin, another 75-100,000 require hospitalization.
There are risks in everything. Just driving to the pharmacy is risky. So is doing nothing. About 15-20% with anxiety disorders or depression will attempt suicide. Sadly, many succeed - and despite the impression media reports often give, very few of them were taking antidepressants at the time. Indeed, very few had any treatment.
For the great majority of anxiety or depression patients antidepressants are the only treatment they can readily access and/or afford. Without an alternative your scaremongering is, at best, a waste of time, and at worst, by scaring off those who need help, may actually cause more suffering than it saves.