A Week of Madness

The following needs few words. It's a post, one of my first, where I shall just use photos and link to the original stories.

Enjoy these rib tickling attempts at defining how depression and other psychiatric illnesses are diagnosed. Moreover, how the drugs used to treat these apparent illnesses, work.

1. The Priory Group prescribes “medication to restore the chemical imbalance in your brain’s limbic system” 

http://www.priorygroup.com/mental-health/depression

2. "Chemical properties of these drugs (SSRI’s) are restoring resilience in the brain."

http://psychintegrity.org/1786-2/

3. Eye test gives flicker of hope to psychiatric patients

http://www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/eye-test-gives-flicker-of-hope-to-psychiatric-patients-1-4194535

Talk about moving the goalposts!


Bob Fiddaman