The Anxiety Report

First thing you should do is read this story. It seems to me that three or four suicides does not an epidemic make. When you think of the sheer numbers of people who take Singulair, three or four suicides seems statistically low. I am no scientist, so what do I know, but a lot of people I know take Singulair and it keeps them breathing with much less trouble than before they were prescribed the pill.

The report says they are probing the links between Singulair and suicide, but I think it’s a little early in the game to be publishing their probe. What will result? Oh, some will panic and stop taking it. Doctors will have a tough time getting people who need it to take it. In a way it’s like saying, people who eat Ham are more prone to suicide. Well for heaven sake, how many millions of people eat ham? Out of that number someone is going to commit suicide because suicide is one of the things we as humans do. It’s not a pretty fact, but it remains a fact.

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Each morning I review the news feeds that pile up in my Good Reader, and select a few for your breakfast. I try to make your Breakfast of Anxiety News, start with something sweet, and then onto the substantial material..

1. Disordered Personality is about a movie being made in India. “The film tries to show a psychiatric disorder called dissociative identity disorder (DID) or, as it was known earlier, multiple personality disorder (MPD).”
2. Neurotic Who Makes Scary World Her Banquet, is a Book Review. Patricia Pearson, author of A Brief History of Anxiety, is a woman who takes her fears, phobias, and makes something solid, a body of work — books, all related on some way with her experience with anxiety. An intersting quote “Ms. Pearson argues, in fact, that rationalism, intended to banish superstition and fear, has instead removed one of the most effective weapons against anxiety, namely religious faith and ritual.” Give it a try.
3. Harsh words may leave invisible scars on children. That should be obvious, right? Think about situations in your own life where you heard a child spoken to roughly, or perhaps that child was you. According to the article “Research conducted by Natalie Sachs-Ericsson at Florida State University suggest that people who were verbally abused as children grow up to be self-critical adults prone to depression and anxiety.” That should be so obvious to us.

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