Peter Breggin

New Study Confirms Electroshock (ECT) Causes Brain Damage

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Psychiatry, Brain-Disabling-Treatments, Peter Breggin, Brain Damage, Lobotomy, Ect, Electroshock, Shock Treatment, Toxic Psychiatry, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Mental Health, Electroshock Treatment, ECT Treatment, Healthy Living News

A new study shows ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) causes brain damage? That's not what you will find in the many promotional press releases published in the mainstream media.

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Benzos and Other Sleep Medications: Deadly and Unnecessary

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Peter Breggin, Restoril, New Research, Psychiatric Drugs, Barbiturates, Ambien, Benzodiazepines, Xanax, Sleep Medications, Mental Health, Sleep Aids, Sleep Medication, Sleep Depression, Sleep Aid, Sleep Mental Health, Sleep, Healthy Living News

In my experience as a psychiatrist, nearly everything we call a psychiatric symptom or problem, including insomnia, is in reality a signal that we have to face a new challenge in life.

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Xanax Facts and Whitney Houston

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Psychiatric Drug Abuse, Peter Breggin, Whitney Houston, Prescription Drugs, Ssris, Ssri Antidepressants, Prozac, Benzos, Benzodiazepines, Prescription Drug Abuse, Overdose, Xanax, Mental Health, Xanax Whitney Houston, Healthy Living News

Reports that Xanax and other benzos are not usually lethal when taken alone are vastly misleading. Xanax is rarely taken alone. Why? Because as much or more than any other prescribed drug, Xanax causes medication spellbinding.

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Judge Sentences Teenager In Prozac Murder Case

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Center for the Study of Empathic Therapy, Peter Breggin, Crime, Empathic Therapy, Eli Lilly, Prozac, Prozac Defense, Ssris, Prozac Violence, Mental Health, Healthy Living News

The judge's opinion is a landmark legal confirmation of the scientific fact that the newer antidepressants like Prozac, including the SSRI and SNRI antidepressants, can cause violence and even murder.

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Hasan, Fort Hood, and the Need to Reassert, "Wow, I'm an American!"

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Nidal Hasan, Peter Breggin, Fort Hood, Pc, Politically Correct, Terrorist, Traitor, Politics News

The military failed to protect itself from Major Nidal Hasan. Why? Because it has been neutered by the shame and guilt engendered by political correctness.

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A Psychiatric Drug Story of Tragedy and Triumph

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Depression, Peter Breggin, Peter R. Breggin, Empathic Therapy Conference, Drug Withdrawal, Dr. Breggin, Biopsychiatry, Empathic Therapy, Psychiatric Drugs, Bipolar, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Md, Health, Healthy Living News

people need to know how lifesaving it can be when health professionals dare to be honest about the hazards of psychiatric drugs and the value of empathic therapeutic approaches.

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The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Psychiatric diagnoses seem to give us important information about ourselves and our emotional ills. In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives.

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Our Psychiatric Civilization

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Depression, Antidepressants, Brain-Disabling Treatments, Ginger Breggin, Empathic Therapy, Tranquilizers, Peter R Breggin MD, Psychiatric Drugs, Bipolar, Psychiatric Diagnosis, Empathic Therapy Center, Psychiatric Medications, Peter Breggin, Schizophrenia, Healthy Living News

We're so obsessed with psychiatry that patients devote themselves to adjusting their diagnoses and drugs, instead of addressing their lives.

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Congressional Hearings On Antidepressant-Induced Suicide In The Military

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Violence, Suicide, Peter Breggin, Antidepressants, Congressional Hearings, Veterans Affairs Commitee, Military Suicides, Veterans, Healthy Living News

Psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry continue to have a stranglehold on the treatment of active duty soldiers who become stressed.

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Stimulus Packages and Prozac: The Unintended Consequences of Intervention

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Peter Breggin, Economic Stimulus Package, Antidepressants, Big Government, Business News

Artificial interventions by know-it-all psychiatrists with their drugs, or know-it-all politicians with their economic bromides can never improve upon the activities of individual human beings pursuing their interests and their ideals in a free society.

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Scientists as Liars: From Global Warming to Biological Psychiatry

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Scientific Fraud, Phil Jones, Global Warming Scandal, Peter Breggin, Global Warming, Green News

Scientists who speak for massive establishments easily gain a headlock on the media and a stranglehold on public opinion. But despite their claims, they don't have a monopoly on the truth.

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The Real Thanksgiving Day -- Our Presidents Explain

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holidays, Peter Breggin, Thanksgiving Day, George Washington, Franklin Dr. Roosevelt, U. S. Presidents, Abraham Lincoln, Native Americans, God, Gratitude, Politics News

By looking at what our most revered presidents have said about the meaning of Thanksgiving, we can get a better idea of the purpose of our national holiday.

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Antipsychotic Drugs, Their Harmful Effects, and the Limits of Tort Reform

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Malpractice Suits, Product Liability Suits, Risperdal, Peter Breggin, Antipsychotic Drugs, Legal, Zyprexa, Adverse Drug Effects, Abilify, Seorquel, Geodon, Healthy Living News

There are many problems within our legal system that could benefit from reform. But so-called tort reform has already gone too far.

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Ten Inevitable Tragic Consequences of National Health Care

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Sterilization, Peter-Breggin, Public Option, Rationing Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Euthanasia, Health Care, Politics News

With the looming probability of a "public option" as a prelude to full-blown national health care, it's important examine the most threatening and eve...

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"Wow, I'm an American!"

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Freedom, Self-Help, Peter Breggin, Values, Psychology, America, Founding Fathers, Constitution, Responsibility, Healthy Living News

We've taken the "wow" out of America. It's time to put it back. It's time to be proud to "Live like an American!"

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How to Live Like an American: The Basics

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Declaration of Independence, Founders, Bill of Rights, Peter Breggin, Liberty, US Constitution, American Values, Psychology, Healthy Living News

I grew to understand that the same principles that worked so well in my psychiatry practice were the same principles taught by our founders and expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

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Stimulants for ADHD Shown to Cause Sudden Death in Children

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Peter Breggin, ADHD Drug Deaths, Ritalin Deaths, Psychiatric Drugs, Children's Health, Child Death, Stimulants Cause Sudden Death, Healthy Living News

Our children don't need drugs--they need us to protect them from misguided health professionals while we make every effort to meet their real needs in our families and schools.

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The Anthrax Perpetrator and the Arkansas Shooter Were Taking Antidepressants

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Murder, Tim Johnson, Anthrax, Antidepressants, Terrorism, Drug Side Effects, Bruce Ivins, Peter Breggin, Psychiatric Drugs, Medication Madness, Prozac, Ssris, Celexa, Politics News

It was recently disclosed that two murderers, one extremely notorious, were probably taking antidepressants at the time of their crimes, but hardly an...

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Children Poisoning Themselves with Illegal Psychiatric Drugs

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Stimulants, Adhd, Children, Psychiatric Drugs, Peter Breggin, Drug Abuse, Healthy Living News

Are teenagers the victims of drug dealers? Partying? Actually, they are trying to handle the overload of work in eleventh grade in highly competitive schools in affluent communities.

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Beyond Politics -- Something We Can All Agree On

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Politics, Schools, Families, Children, Consensus, Peter Breggin, Health, Social Control Parenting, Psychiatric Drugs, Lobotomy, Civil Rights, Healthy Living News

From the political left or right, we should be able to come together around the idea that it's bad to use psychiatric drugs to control children. There are better ways.

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The FDA Wants to Stop You from Protecting Yourself Against Drug Companies

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Legal Rights, Drug Company Fraud, Eli Lilly, Fda, Psychiatric Drugs, Suicide, Prozac, Paxil, Gsk, Peter Breggin, Health, Side Effects, Politics News

Suing a drug company is your only way as an individual to protect yourself against malfeasance. It should be a right under the law, but the FDA and the drug companies are on the verge of taking it away.

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Lessons from the Death of "Mental Patient" Esmin Green

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Emergency Room Death, Antipsychotic Drugs, Hospital Neglect, Emergency Room Neglect, Peter Breggin, Psychiatric Patient, Seroquel or Geodon, Health, Neuroleptics, Zyprexa, Haldol, Risperdal, Esmin Green, Healthy Living News

The Emergency Room video cam took it all in but no human response was forthcoming. Forty-nine year old Esmin Green had been involuntarily committed a...

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From FDA to GSK: The Dangerous Partnership between Government and Big Pharma

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Glaxosmithkline, Daniel Troy, Fda, Health, Gsk, Big Pharma, Drug Regulators, Regulation, Peter Breggin, Paxil, Suicide, Adverse Reactions, Antidepressants, Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, Side Effects, Politics News

The FDA is not so much a watchdog agency as an active member of the psychopharmaceutical complex working on behalf on the drug industry.

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