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	<title>Recovery from &#34;schizophrenia&#34; and other &#34;psychotic disorders&#34; &#187; antipsychotic</title>
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	<description>New understandings of the mind and of madness can open new doors to full recovery - thoughts from way outside the straightjacket of the &#34;medical model.&#34;  By Ron Unger LCSW</description>
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		<title>Giving Antipsychotics to people just diagnosed with psychosis is NOT an evidence based practice</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/09/giving-antipsychotics-to-people-just-diagnosed-with-psychosis-is-not-and-evidence-based-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost everywhere in the world, programs set up to do early intervention in psychosis rush to start people on antipsychotics.  This is widely seen to be an evidence based practice:  in fact, it is thought that the evidence is so strong, it would be unethical to withhold the drugs. Many of us are aware that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When trying to get off drugs leads to more drugs</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/04/when-trying-to-get-off-drugs-leads-to-more-drugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people are trying to get off neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medications, they often run into a problem like the following. The medication is reduced, then some kind of scary problem emerges, and then the person finds they must go to an even higher dose of medication than they were previously on in order to bring the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>They don&#8217;t want you to conclude that shrinking brains is a bad thing</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/02/they-dont-want-you-to-conclude-that-shrinking-brains-is-a-bad-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2011/02/they-dont-want-you-to-conclude-that-shrinking-brains-is-a-bad-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["brain shrinkage"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a news article today, it&#8217;s going to be a lot harder for anyone to deny what some of us have been saying for quite a while:  that antipsychotic medications frequently result in shrinkage of the brain.  The study, in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found that over seven years &#8220; More antipsychotic drug treatment, including [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Evidence That Long Term Reliance On Antipsychotic Medication May Impair Recovery</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/05/new-evidence-that-long-term-reliance-on-antipsychotic-medication-may-impair-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 18:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Many of you have probably been aware of two prior World Health Organization (WHO) studies that showed almost twice the recovery rates from &#8220;schizophrenia&#8221; in developing countries as in developed countries.  While critics of current psychiatric practice attributed the better outcome in developing countries to the fact that most were not on medication, others suggested [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two Kinds of Risk, but the Mental Health System Only Acknowledges One:</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I pointed out at a recent mental health system meeting in my county, people with mental health problems face two kinds of risks.  The first sort of risk is from the mental health problem itself.  Unless the person finds effective treatment, mental health problems can often cause high distress, disability, and even result in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Problems when antipsychotics interfere with the ability to  anticipate threat</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/03/problems-when-antipsychotics-interfere-with-the-ability-to-anticipate-threat/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/03/problems-when-antipsychotics-interfere-with-the-ability-to-anticipate-threat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Bentall, in his book Doctoring the Mind: Is our current treatment of mental illness really any good? describes how researchers first noticed and tested the properties of the medications that later became known as “antipsychotic.”  The procedure was fairly simple.  They first exposed rats to an electric shock applied to the floor of their [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Does society really want creativity?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/01/does-society-really-want-creativity/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2010/01/does-society-really-want-creativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have written elsewhere about links between creativity and psychosis.  In a recent blog entry, Gianna Kali of &#8220;BeyondMeds&#8221; links to an article describing how teachers in schools all say they seek to encourage creativity, yet their favorite students all tend to be those who show traits incompatible with creativity &#8211; those who are good [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What can be done if both psychosis, and antipsychotic medications, are likely to shrink brains and kill people?</title>
		<link>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/08/what-can-be-done-if-both-psychosis-and-antipsychotic-medications-are-likely-to-shrink-brains-and-kill-people/</link>
		<comments>http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/08/what-can-be-done-if-both-psychosis-and-antipsychotic-medications-are-likely-to-shrink-brains-and-kill-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Unger</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the attempt to convince people to take medications, the hazards of such medications are often minimized or overlooked. While many people may truly be better off taking some medications, at least for awhile, the danger in hiding the hazards of the drugs is that rational decisions about how long to stay on medications, at [...]]]></description>
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