Welcome to From Insults To Respect. Today’s topic involves life and death issues. When some people become concerned about their emotions, moods, behavior, or the ups and downs of life, they often seek professional mental health services. If they go to someone in the medical profession, they typically find that after a visit of somewhere between ten minutes to an hour they have been labeled as having…
Welcome to From Insults To Respect. Last year I published a post titled “Are Antipsychotics Beneficial?” (see HERE). Although I had personally reviewed the research, I relied on my method of presenting this information to readers by summarizing a free PDF written by the highly regarded science writer, Robert Whitaker, titled, “The Case Against Antipsychotics: A Review of Their Long-term Effects.” By clicking on the blue…
Recently I provided a post titled, “Are Mental Illnesses Really Illnesses? And Why do People Care?” There are a lot of people out there who were very supportive of the post, but at the same time, some were angry that I would even raise the question. One of the most angry person mentioned that the proof that mental illnesses are real illnesses was that the…