Comments on: What Does It Say About Psychiatry? http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/10/06/what-does-it-say-about-psychiatry/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:14:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: MT http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/10/06/what-does-it-say-about-psychiatry/#comment-225597 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:17:03 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/10/06/what-does-it-say-about-psychiatry/#comment-225597 It is disheartening that the treatments research shows to be the most effective and longest lasting for depression and anxiety -- cognitive and other talk therapies -- are underpresecribed and not considered primary treatments by many doctors. It is further disheartening that research into the role of nutrition in mental health is underfunded -- which seems to be because there is no way to patent nutritional interventions, so no motive for private research funding. Some of Seth's self-experiments on Omega 3 here, as well as other research support the merit of more research into nutrition for health, as does the intervention proposed by Truehope, which has not been properly researched, but should be given startling evidence of a relationship between nutrition and bipolar, ADHD, and possibly other mental health issues. Things are indeed seriously awry in psychiatric research. It is disheartening that the treatments research shows to be the most effective and longest lasting for depression and anxiety — cognitive and other talk therapies — are underpresecribed and not considered primary treatments by many doctors. It is further disheartening that research into the role of nutrition in mental health is underfunded — which seems to be because there is no way to patent nutritional interventions, so no motive for private research funding. Some of Seth’s self-experiments on Omega 3 here, as well as other research support the merit of more research into nutrition for health, as does the intervention proposed by Truehope, which has not been properly researched, but should be given startling evidence of a relationship between nutrition and bipolar, ADHD, and possibly other mental health issues.

Things are indeed seriously awry in psychiatric research.

]]> by: Pietr Hitzig http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/10/06/what-does-it-say-about-psychiatry/#comment-224680 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:18:08 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/10/06/what-does-it-say-about-psychiatry/#comment-224680 Fifteen years ago, I attended a conference about a new antidepressant. The Harvard equivalents of Nemeroff were stroking their beards while they pontificated about "Type I" and "Type II" depression. The former needed hospitalization and the latter treated as outpatients. Puckishly, I suggested that actually Type I had insurance and Type II did not. Fifteen years ago, I attended a conference about a new antidepressant. The Harvard equivalents of Nemeroff were stroking their beards while they pontificated about “Type I” and “Type II” depression. The former needed hospitalization and the latter treated as outpatients.

Puckishly, I suggested that actually Type I had insurance and Type II did not.

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