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Mass Hysteria and Island communities

Posted by: maldiveshealth on: May 16, 2008

Well. Consider this as a little update. I said something about this mass hysteria thing before. I tried some how to make the Makunudhoo island crisis and the Nigerian Genitalia Vanishing Epidemic look similar. In Congo this year (2008) sorcerers were arrested for stealing penises (again? u must be joking?). In Maldives this year [...]

Nigerian Genitalia Vanishing Epidemic of 1990

Posted by: maldiveshealth on: May 13, 2008

We heard about the fainting and pseudoseizures that are happening in Makunudhoo. Now hear about the NIGERIAN GENITALIA VANISHING EPIDEMIC OF 1990.

Nigerian Genitalia Vanishing Epidemic of 1990
During 1990, an episode of “vanishing” genitalia caused widespread fear across Nigeria. Native psychiatrist Sunny Ilechukwu (1992) said that most reports of attacks involved male victims. Accusations were usually [...]

Psychiatric Drug Facts

Posted by: maldiveshealth on: March 26, 2008

Anti psychotic? Meet Dr. Peter Breggin.

Any significant curtailment in the prescription of psychiatric drugs will have to come as a result of actions taken outside the medical profession and outside the pharmaceutical industry. Ultimately, it’s up to individuals to decide that there are better ways of overcoming emotional problems than impairing their brain and mind [...]

God Damn Maldive media

Posted by: maldiveshealth on: March 17, 2008

It has been 2 days since a high profile person from the Presidents Office had been “arrested”, “taken away”, “abducted” or kept out from the publics eye . This “noble” person seems to have been sexually abusing his own daughter since she was nine years old. Only one newspaper has so far covered this. Yes. [...]

All the Hype on the recent Antidepressant study

Posted by: maldiveshealth on: March 1, 2008

If you look at the published headlines of this study, the first impression you will get is that Anti depressants have been found not to be working anymore. Here is an example just for making things clear.
Heading from Washingtonpost reads.
 

Only Severely Depressed Benefit From Antidepressants: Study

While popular antidepressants such as Prozac are widely prescribed [...]



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