“Transform the labels”
Transform Your Life
This is the first book to feature an innovative micronutrient treatment that is proving effective with a wide range of bio behavioral syndromes including bipolar syndrome. The book, part memoir and part medical detective story discusses my...
Forward Preface Introduction and Whatever Else you Need to Know about this Book. Ten Ways to keep your brain from screaming “OUCH?” Yep, that’s the crux of it. I know, doesn’t sound very professional, but really, does it take the...
Imagine that you are the leader of an expedition sent from a confederation of galaxies to study a newly discovered alien race that lives on planet earth. They are called humans. You come not to plunder and pillage, as in Independence Day, but...
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Who is this website for? It is for anyone who has been told they have a “chemical imbalance,” anyone whose friend or loved one has been told they have a “chemical imbalance” and anyone who told anyone else they have a “chemical imbalance.” It is for those who believe they or their loved one have a “mental disease” such as bipolar, schizophrenia, depression, autism, ADHD or a host of other “mental disorders” as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-IV. This site is not about mental disorders. It is about biological/behavioral (bio behavioral) syndromes that rob us and our family members of the ability to love and work.
This site is about my family’s struggle to ensure that various biological disorders that affect my son and others like him are identified and treated as effectively as possible. This site is about moving beyond mental illness by changing the assessment and treatment paradigm. Psychotropic medications should be the last alternative saved for those cases where exhaustive diagnostic procedures have failed to identify treatable biological markers. When those markers are identified and treated, less, and, in some cases no psychiatric medications will be needed. For more detail and a historical perspective visit bipolarodyssey.com.
As I write in Beyond Mental Illness, ”The delegation of much human suffering to the domain of psychiatry through the familiar labels in the DSM may be psychologically satisfying but it blinds us to the more relevant causes of such suffering.”
The Books
Too Good to be True? Nutrients Quiet the Unquiet Brain. This book, published in 2003, is the story of my family’s four generation bipolar odyssey. It is part memoir, part medical reporting. More details are availabe at www.bipolarodyssey.com.
Ten Ways to Keep Your Brain from Screaming “OUCH!” The title pretty well says it all. This compendium of interventions gives suggestions for both lay people and professionals to facilitate brain health. It will be published in 2012.
Beyond Mental Illness examines the mental health delivery system as it exists today and advocates for a new system for assessment and treatment. The book presents examples of what such a diagnostic system might look like. It also will be published in 2012.
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