Monday, December 9, 2013

When to talk and when not to

I realize that I haven't posted anything in the pamphlets blog for a very long time. It isn't that I don't have anything to say. Rather, others are saying it for me. And I don't believe in chatter.

Perhaps too much attention is given to originating and too little to listening. Listening is good. When is the last time someone listened to you? Didn't it feel good? Is there anything you'd like to tell me?

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Bad Drugs -- When will we learn

  1. Bad Drugs -- For those of you interested in the increasing "drugging of America" with psychiatric drugs, See NY Times article. http://tinyurl.com/l52ahlc (full url: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/us/was
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    Alexis was prescribed Trazodone twice in the last month. Trazodone is an antidepressant that carries an FDA black box warning for suicide and has been shown to cause mania and violence.

    The story reveals some interesting facts. When will the nation wake up to the fact that guns don't kill, people do, and people on mind-bending drugs get strange ideas!
     
    Some will say -- he was mentally ill and he didn't get the (psychiatric) help he needed. But I think, if you look carefully at the history of his and others psychotic incidents, you will find that, where we can view the medical records, they were on (or had been on) psychiatric drugs that cause suicidal and homicidal behavior in some persons.