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10/15/2026

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10/15/2026

A recently published article in American Psychologist "provides the first empirical evidence linking cumulative trauma exposure to creativity in a large nonclinical sample, adopting a person-centered approach to account for posttraumatic adaptation profiles."

Read "What Does Not Kill You Can Make You Stronger: Creativity as an Adaptive Outcome After Trauma" by Yaru Chen and colleagues to explore the findings: https://bit.ly/47uWWnH

10/15/2026

10/14/2026

"Here's why that matters. In a 2024 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, people with a recent amphetamine prescription had 2.68 times the odds of psychosis and mania. Above 30 mg, the risk was about fivefold.
"And it's not just short-lived episodes. A JAMA Psychiatry review of nearly 400,000 people found 2.2% of those on ADHD stimulants developed a psychotic disorder and 3.7% developed bipolar disorder."

QEEG Neurotherapy is a safe and effective alternative to stimulant medications. Retrain the brain into optimal functional habits - that's what we have been doing for over 3 decades.

If you would like to chat about this option and if you're a good candidate, give us a call for a free consultation. 901-624-0100.

Everyone blames Britney Spears' struggles on fame, the paparazzi or her conservatorship. I think they're missing a drug.

In her memoir, Britney said her drug of choice was Adderall. She said it made her high, but what she found more appealing was that it gave her a few hours of feeling less depressed.

That was during her divorce and custody battle in the 2000s.

Here's why that matters. In a 2024 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, people with a recent amphetamine prescription had 2.68 times the odds of psychosis and mania. Above 30 mg, the risk was about fivefold.

And it's not just short-lived episodes. A JAMA Psychiatry review of nearly 400,000 people found 2.2% of those on ADHD stimulants developed a psychotic disorder and 3.7% developed bipolar disorder.

Her boyfriend at the time, Adnan Ghalib, told the Sun he saw staff hand her tablets and call them "vitamins." He said she'd be up for days, wound up and frantic, and that he ended up hiding her pills because he was scared she'd overdose.

Then came the public breakdown in 2008, two involuntary hospitalizations, and the conservatorship. During it, she couldn't get Adderall, and for the most part she was functional. She toured, released albums, and worked in Vegas.

But in her memoir she also describes overusing over-the-counter energy and pre-workout supplements, which led to treatment stays in 2014 and 2019.

Since the conservatorship ended, sources say she's drinking Red Bull and Celsius by the gallon, and TMZ sources reported she had Adderall without a prescription at the time of her recent traffic stop.

I see this pattern a lot. People on psychiatric meds feel flat, so they reach for stimulants. Too many stimulants can cause mood instability.

There is hope. Brain imaging research on people who stayed off methamphetamine showed many of the changes reversed with sobriety. Clean food, sleep, movement and people who love you go a long way.

Comment TAPER and I'll send you my free safe tapering guide.

10/14/2026

I spoke with a young man yesterday, whose psychiatrist told him that he could just take an SSRI for six months and then come off of it without having to taper.

This is the kind of irresponsible and dangerous crap psychiatrists regularly do

That whole profession needs to be held accountable for the harm that it’s done to many many people over the years

Are there some good psych, psychiatrist and psych psychiatric nurse practitioners? Absolutely!

But they’re going to spend time with you they’re going to talk to you about what’s going on in your life. What is going on with your nutrition and your sleep and your body movement? They’re not just going to drug you.

If you’re interested in avoiding medication, QEEG driven Neurotherapy is a far safer and far more effective option.

Celeste was 14 when she got shingles. That nerve pain started a 20-year run on psychiatric drugs.

She failed three tapers off Lexapro. Each time, her doctors moved too fast.

On attempt four she switched to liquid Lexapro, listened to her body, and came down slowly over about two years. She called it harder than pregnancy.

Now, months after finishing, her body is gradually coming alive again.

If you're coming off, don't stop suddenly. Go slowly, with your prescriber.

Comment TAPER and I'll send you my free safe tapering guide.

10/14/2026

10/14/2026

Benzos plus opiates. The FDA label warns this combination can cause profound sedation, slowed breathing, coma and death.

Presley Ge**er said he'd seen around 15 psychiatrists, and he asked if anything could help him taper. The answer, he said, was more medications.

Toxicology wasn't out when I discussed his death, but given his history with opiates and benzos, I suspect a combination like this played a role.

Xanax, Klonopin, Va**um plus oxycodone or fentanyl is not a casual mix.

If you're struggling, call or text 988 (US) or your local crisis line.

Comment TAPER and I'll send you my free safe tapering guide.

10/13/2026

In this blog, Yaakov Ophir writes that psychiatric diagnoses are unusual things. They are largely classificatory constructs built around patterns of experience and behavior. We do not diagnose them through blood tests, brain scans, or other biomarkers that can independently confirm the diagnosis.

And that is what makes the wording so unusually powerful. Change a small thing in the definition of a diagnosis in a DSM revision, and watch what happens.

Who meets the diagnosis changes.
Which treatments are offered changes.
What researchers study changes.
How schools and families respond changes.
Even how people understand themselves changes.

Of course, suffering, difficulties, and human traits are not created by the DSM. But a psychiatric label can create a new
clinical reality around them.

The DSM, often called “the bible of psychiatry,” only resembles the Bible in its power to shape reality. Unlike the Bible, its words are rewritten again and again.

One particularly consequential rewriting came in 1980, with the publication of DSM-III, widely remembered as a turning point in modern psychiatry. It was meant to address serious problems in the existing classificatory system and
make psychiatric diagnosis more consistent and more reliable.

It was supposed to be psychiatry’s scientific revolution. The DSM had undergone a major facelift. Psychiatry’s “bible” now carried the aura of science. If a diagnosis appeared in its pages, it could feel all the more real. Science, after all,
had put it there.

One of the diagnoses born in this new “scientific” edition was Attention Deficit Disorder (what later became ADHD) after clubbing several earlier childhood labels (e.g., Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood, Minimal Brain Dysfunction) together under a single diagnostic construct, on the grounds that attentional difficulties were prominent across them.

But from 1980 to 2022, there has been a remarkable transformation in what classifies as ADHD. And all of this happened in just four decades, an extraordinarily short time in evolutionary terms. Human biology does not evolve that quickly. Diagnostic language, however, can. And in psychiatry, that language has the power to shape clinical reality.

In this article, Yaakov Ophir asks: what happens to psychiatric diagnoses when successive attempts to improve them generate new tensions in the very construct they are meant to refine?

Read his detailed piece on the paradox of psychiatry by clicking the link below!
https://www.madinamerica.com/2026/10/let-there-be-light-before-psychiatry-writes-its-next-dsm/