Medication
One of the lowest points of my life came when I was a 17 year old runaway scratching out a heavily eyelined living as a waitress in Sydney.
Thanks to a Great Dane-sized bout of black dog depression, I’d gone from being a straight-A student to a high school drop-out in a few short months.
In 1987, I was writing three-unit English essays on Jane Austen and dreaming of becoming some sort of millionaire adventurer balloon-ess.
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Our mental health priorities are seriously out of whack.
Australia’s mental health system is a shambles. It’s under-funded and plagued by bureaucracy and a lack of political will.
People in desperate need of help are slipping through the cracks, as bed numbers dive and community support fails to reel in the slack.
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Andre says:
I’m not sure that the 8 or 9 hours of sleep is aabainttle when I’m on clinical rotations instead of research, though I keep striving for it:) And doing little things to get outside while it’s still warm is a great idea.The eating and exercise pieces are so hard… I… Read more »
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Luke says:
“It’s difficult to have a serious debate on the over-prescription of drugs. Part of this is because Scientology has ripped much credibility out of the argument with their rigid opposition to any sort of medication” Scientology has acted as champions to those who risk thier careers speaking against mind altering… Read more »
Marketing gurus around Australia have embarked on a whole new strategy. No more two-for-the-price-of-one, or 20-per-cent-extra-free deals. Now it’s all about giving the people less of what they want. Genius.
First they shrank chocolate bars. Now they’re cutting the amount of alcohol in booze – not in the designated driver-oriented “lite” products, but in your everyday lager.
Detergents come in ever smaller containers. It’s concentrated, but what’s the bet most people use the same amount?
But the worst case – particularly in light of swine flu – is cold and flu medicine.
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Julia Wallace says:
Tory, I couldn’t agree more about homeopathy. An interesting read is “Bad Medicine” by Dr Ben Goldacre, in which he discusses the dubious practices employed by big pharma, and the whole ‘alternative’ medicine industry. And to those posters who discussed the use of pseudoephedrine for a cold, my reading of… Read more »
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Chris says:
Actually. Sorry. In response to the above post… I think it’s dispicable that chemists could even stock homeopathic products. They do this only to make money because as previously posted homeopathy is all about drinking WATER. There is no active ingredient in homeopathy and thus there is no effect beyond… Read more »
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