Posted in Discussion on Nov 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
On our medication podcast, Shira mentioned the Crazy Academics community on Livejournal. Crazy academics is a community of people in college living with a variety of psychiatric conditions. These people go to class every day, study hard for tests, and live out the college experience all while taking medications, going to therapy, and staying on top of their respective disorders. If you’re looking for down to earth people that will give you the honest skinny on the ins and outs of going to college and taking medications, these are the people to ask. Check out crazy academics.
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Posted in Discussion on Nov 1st, 2007 No Comments »
On our medications show, we referenced links we’d be putting on the blog. Here are those links. These links will take you to the depressedteens.com articles page where you can explore further information on medication as well as a host of other issues.
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Posted in Discussion on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Hi folks. It’s Chris. After a couple of weeks of wacky illness, we’re back. Check out this weeks show on denial if you haven’t already. We’re getting ready to roll out a show on medication. We’ve realized the topic of medication is so massive that we will have to split the show up into a few weeks. So, this week, we’re going to go over medication broadly, touching on things like antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and antidepressants. We’ll also touch on the importance of taking your medications regularly and consistently if you’ve been prescribed them. The following week, we’ll do an entire episode about side effects from medication. We’ll finish up the following week by tying it all together with an episode about the biological component of mood disorders.
Sooner or later, we’ll end up doing a show on each of the types of medication. So, I’m sure we’ll do a show down the line entirely on mood stabilizers. For now, we’re looking to cover a wide area in a short amount of time.
Look for our upcoming guests as well: Dr. Jim Hudziak who co-authored one of the largest studies on the impact of genetics on mood disorders, and musician/recording artist Brandi Carlile.
We’ll be posting more here, so keep checking back. And come on, get involved in some discussion here too. It’s what this place is for after all.
See ya,
Chris
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