DYING FOR A CURE: It's a new book out by Rebekah Beddoe, Printed by Random House AUsatralia.
A memoir of Rebekahs dramatic downhill slide after being continually mis-diagnosed and given inappropriate cocktails of drugs including Zoloft, Lithium, Valium, Luvox, Zyprexa ETC ALL AT THE SAME TIME.. She ended up having shock therapy, made a number of attempts on her life, contracted diabetes , and akathisia. All because she was given Zoloft, and no -one noticed her rapid decline and thought to blame it on the drug. Instead they (psychiatrists) kept upping the dose and adding more drugs to her body.
At the back is a Bibliography and Further Reading: I'll include a few as you may be interested :
Peter Breggin: Tha Antidepressant Fact Book: What your doctor won't tell you about Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa and Luvox: Perseus Publishing Massachusetts 2001.
There are also others by him I think he has a website.
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels: Selling Sickness: how drug companies are turning us all into patients. Allen & Unwin Sydney 2005
David Healy: Let them eat Prozac: New York Uni Press 2004
Robert Whitaker: Mad in America: bad science, bad medicine and the enduring mistreatment of the mentally ill. Basic Books, Massachusetts 2003.
If any Aussies want a lend of the book, PM me and I'll post it to you. Long as I get it back.
Fran
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