Comments on: Funny juxtaposition http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/03/05/funny-juxtaposition/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Phil http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/03/05/funny-juxtaposition/comment-page-1/#comment-2950 Phil Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:33:25 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/03/05/funny-juxtaposition/#comment-2950 Are your meds working ok, Liz? Are your meds working ok, Liz?

]]> By: Nancy http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/03/05/funny-juxtaposition/comment-page-1/#comment-2949 Nancy Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:47:05 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/03/05/funny-juxtaposition/#comment-2949 I read the following book reviews in the NYTimes online: http://www.nytimes.com:80/2008/02/26/books/26meth.html?th&emc=th Both father and son have written memoirs about the experience. David Sheff's is Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction and Nic Sheff's is Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines. I was then listening to NPR and heard Terry Gross interviewing the father and son authors. http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=02-26-2008&view=storyview Listen to Tuesday's show --- Feb. 26, 2008 "Memoirs of Meth Addiction from a Father and a Son Drug addiction doesn't just affect the addict, it changes the whole family. Journalist David Sheff and his son Nic join Fresh Air to talk about Nic's addiction to methamphetamine and the separate memoirs they've written about the experience." If you have the time, do listen to the complete interview. I could relate so much to both of their stories. The son Nic has been sober for over 2 years but during his last time in rehab, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He's on a mood stabilizer and he feels that his dx/medication had been a missing part of his attempts at recovery earlier. Turns out that crystal meth and meds to treat bipolar disorder have some things in common and that's why meth can be so quickly addictive in such persons. The father's guilt, despair, anger and primal love for his son are so apparent. Absolutely riveting---and hopeful, too. Btw,a another similar powerful and more tragic book from about 10 years ago by George McGovern is called Terry: My Daughter's Life and Death Struggle with Alcoholism. Terry struggled with depression all her life, too. As I listened to the Terry Gross interview, I was wondering if George McGovern might be tuning in as well. The Newsweek cover story last week on addiction is also very interesting. 80% of peope with addiction also suffer from major depression, bipolar disorder,PTSD or other brain illness. I read the following book reviews in the NYTimes online:
http://www.nytimes.com:80/2008/02/26/books/26meth.html?th&emc=th
Both father and son have written memoirs about the experience. David Sheff’s is Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Meth Addiction and Nic Sheff’s is Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines.

I was then listening to NPR and heard Terry Gross interviewing the father and son authors. http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=02-26-2008&view=storyview Listen to Tuesday’s show — Feb. 26, 2008

“Memoirs of Meth Addiction from a Father and a Son
Drug addiction doesn’t just affect the addict, it changes the whole family. Journalist David Sheff and his son Nic join Fresh Air to talk about Nic’s addiction to methamphetamine and the separate memoirs they’ve written about the experience.”

If you have the time, do listen to the complete interview. I could relate so much to both of their stories. The son Nic has been sober for over 2 years but during his last time in rehab, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He’s on a mood stabilizer and he feels that his dx/medication had been a missing part of his attempts at recovery earlier. Turns out that crystal meth and meds to treat bipolar disorder have some things in common and that’s why meth can be so quickly addictive in such persons. The father’s guilt, despair, anger and primal love for his son are so apparent. Absolutely riveting—and hopeful, too. Btw,a another similar powerful and more tragic book from about 10 years ago by George McGovern is called Terry: My Daughter’s Life and Death Struggle with Alcoholism. Terry struggled with depression all her life, too. As I listened to the Terry Gross interview, I was wondering if George McGovern might be tuning in as well. The Newsweek cover story last week on addiction is also very interesting. 80% of peope with addiction also suffer from major depression, bipolar disorder,PTSD or other brain illness.

]]> By: Masale.Wallah http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/03/05/funny-juxtaposition/comment-page-1/#comment-2948 Masale.Wallah Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:46:47 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/03/05/funny-juxtaposition/#comment-2948 That's no scream..it's old age... will happen to us all.. :-) That’s no scream..it’s old age… will happen to us all..
:-)

]]> By: Kent http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/03/05/funny-juxtaposition/comment-page-1/#comment-2947 Kent Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:45:07 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/03/05/funny-juxtaposition/#comment-2947 The mass media really does misrepresent depression, just as this article states. Recently I heard one of my local tv stations say unequivocally, as part of the health segment on their nightly news show, that "depression is caused by a chemical imbalance." I wrote the station to tell them that they were stating as fact something that was only a theory. Someone from the station emailed me back saying that they don't have the staff to research those reports themselves very often, so they usually just pass along the stories directly from CNN. I sent him back this link to a web-based article by a psychiatrist refuting that "chemical imbalance" theory: http://www.candidpsychiatrist.com/index.php?page=prescribing-on-faith I hope he had time to read it. The mass media really does misrepresent depression, just as this article states. Recently I heard one of my local tv stations say unequivocally, as part of the health segment on their nightly news show, that “depression is caused by a chemical imbalance.” I wrote the station to tell them that they were stating as fact something that was only a theory. Someone from the station emailed me back saying that they don’t have the staff to research those reports themselves very often, so they usually just pass along the stories directly from CNN. I sent him back this link to a web-based article by a psychiatrist refuting that “chemical imbalance” theory:

http://www.candidpsychiatrist.com/index.php?page=prescribing-on-faith

I hope he had time to read it.

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