Thanks for your supportive comment. I've learned a lot over the past year and a half... As I've said elsewhere, she was doing quite well until the system got it

Thanks for your supportive comment. I've learned a lot over the past year and a half... As I've said elsewhere, she was doing quite well until the system got its tentacles onto her, and I can't allow them to wreck her like they do everyone else. There is a lot of interest in mental health on HN... Sometimes I watch /newest, and come across submissions that provide clues for the puzzle. > I agree with you that something is a bit wrong with Psychiatry. It is in fact a very young field, and there is very little basic science or understanding behind the treatments. This is a frustrating and dire situation for patients suffering from severe mental illness. The field has been entirely corrupted by the drug industry, who used an incorrect interpretation of the findings science to sell their latest patent medicines. There are some good investigative journalism pieces in the Boston Globe in 2000 about the Prozac problem... It's especially telling that many of the 1st-generation anti-depressants were anti-serotonin drugs, while 2nd-generation "anti-depressants" are pro-serotonin drugs. There are some safe MAOI's, but these don't get used anymore because of "the cheese problem"... I think the proper use for an MAOI is for a week or two, to get someone out of bed long enough for them to start to take better care of themselves. Then the drug would be discontinued. I think Depo Provera (the 3-month "birth control" injection) turned my girlfriend into a drug addict, 10 years earlier... Provera doesn't do that to most people, but her history made her especially vulnerable to that particular drug.