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In any event there used to be about 25,000 links to the old domain. Because of those links I used to get a lot of traffic, had high rankings in Google searches, etc. I don't know where they all are, and even if I did I don't have the energy or even the ability to face dealing with asking most people to fix outdated links without getting depressed. So telling me about it doesn't help. If you happen to come across a link to the old domain, ask the owner of the domain to fix it, or if it's a forum or blog you could at least put in an actual html link to the new domain yourself. Please try to make sure that a real link that can be followed shows up, because just text doesn't do anything. That's what's going to help the most right now. Adding Crazy Meds to your favorite online bookmark site helps a lot too. To make it easier I have the buttons for popular ones up all over the place. Thus slowing things down even more. YAY! Regardless of how you have a website or blog somewhere, or hang out on different online support groups, boards, blogs and the like, linking to http://www.crazymeds.us helps. Or if there was a particular page that helped you, link to that page. Put us in as a cool site or hot site or whatever in your Yahoo or AOL or MSN profile. If we've been helpful and someone has a question where we have the answer, spread the URL to your friends, and on other sites or on e-mail lists where germane questions come up about mental health and/or meds for the mentally interesting. An actual link helps the most. But please, DON'T JUST SPAM THE NAME. I have enough trouble as it is with dickweeds who have appropriated the names "Crazy Meds" "crazymeds" and even "crazymeds.org" and use it for both e-mail and posting to other sites, but with links to their own fucked-up domains (everything from "qzcrazymeds dot com" to "jewishfamily dot net!") that sell bogus meds or are just portals for advertising. Worse yet the e-mail isn't just spam, but often viruses. That's one of the reasons we get blocked by a lot of domains and software like Spam Assassin.
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Without the income I used to make, I'm freaking broke.
Kassiane's medical bills and a tax hit in 2007 of around $15,000 kind of did me in. My savings account is gone. I've maxed out the cash advances on four credit cards. I'm over $30,000 in debt. Once again, I've got to beg. The page opens in a new window, as PayPal can't stand being framed any more.
Any donations made on the Crazy Meds Talk forum goes to help pay the moderators, thus they get all of that money.
To send cash the old fashioned way, please send cash, checks or money orders to:
Jerod Poore
P.O. Box 8091
Missoula, MT 59807
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Hey, if you want something back, I'm selling T-shirts now. Check out Straitjacket T-Shirts for your crapalicious clothing needs.
I know the mentally interesting are often, if not always short on cash. I've been there often enough. There are still all sorts of ways to help me keep this site going, and thus allow me to earn an honest living, without your having to dig into your change jar. So please don't feel guilty for not having any money to throw my way.
Honestly rate this site for Psych Central:
Write an honest review of the site on Amazon. You'll need an account with Amazon to do this.
A less formal, but just as effective form of rating are a follow-up postings to the above-mentioned posts to blogs, boards, e-mail lists, etc.
The more people who validate us, the better. We need all the approval we can get. I mean, jeez, I'm happy whenever the machine at the store tells me my credit card has been approved. Of course let the readers know what you honestly think about us. We're all about fully-informed consumers.
If you can send me something, one thing I can really use is medical journals. If you think your doctor or therapist may have some medical journals she or he no longer needs - just ask for them! I might be able to use them! If you don't feel comfortable or forget to ask your doctor, ask the receptionist. Actually the receptionists often have more of a clue about out-dated medical journals than the doctors. Don't worry if they're not something I can use. There's a recycling program here that takes magazines. So you know they'll get reused one way or another.
Also of great use to me are pointers to online patient information and/or prescribing information literature from countries outside of the United States. You may already have noticed that I have links to such information from the UK, New Zealand, South Africa and, if Dr. Long thinks the med has psychiatric value, Canada. I've found a great source for Russian PI sheets, so I'm putting those up when I update pages. StrungOutOnLife has found a bunch of Japanese and Israeli sheets, and she and I stumble across others here and there. But the more the merrier. So if you know of such a sheet online, or even the trade name of a medication I don't have listed, or a country that uses a different trade name I'm missing, please let me know.
As for anything else you might have that you don't need, it's not like I'm proud or anything. Books, DVDs, CDs, toys, gluten-free food. Just drop us a line and we'll let you know if I'm interested or not.
Send whatever to:
Jerod Poore
P.O. Box 8091
Missoula, MT 59807
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The need for content is on hold for now. When and if there are to be more updates to the site, here is how I'll be requesting submissions:
Also we need content. Lots and lots of content. Our lives have become rather overwhelming of late, which is why the site has become so freaking moribund. If you have experience with a medication where we have a truly shitty page left over from the original 2003 edition of "The Poppin' Zits! Consumers' Guide to Psychiatric Medications" (e.g. all of the benzodiazepines and MAOIs we have covered, most of the stimulants), drugs that are flat-out missing (e.g. Lyrica, Emsam), or drugs not available in the United States (e.g. Sabril (vigabatrin)) we can use a write-up. I've been meaning to do a writers' guide for some time now, but here's the short version:
It doesn't have to be in HTML, plain text or MS Word works for me.
My preferred format is always under construction. It's not like the drug companies have a standardized PI sheet. Take a look at the not-yet-finished updated How to Read Our Drugs Pages and the Seroquel page for the sort of content I'm looking for. Don't worry about stuff like the drug-drug interactions, the disclaimer, ads and stuff like that. I'll deal with such things.
I do require cites for any claims. Personal experience and anecdotal evidence (i.e. stuff you've picked up from support groups and support sites on the internets) is all well and good, but we also need things you get out of books and from reputable online sources like the ones you'll find on my page of online sites we use. Wikipedia isn't a good single source. They don't even have the balls to come out and name Crazy Meds as a source, even when they do mine us for a bunch of data for their own drugs pages. Just check out their Lamictal page and compare it with ours. Check their footnotes and compare them with our sources. Then scroll all the way down to the very bottom. Sometimes we're mentioned on external links as a "consumer-run psychiatric drugs information site." Sometimes the link is removed entirely. You'll find the differences on the discussion and history pages. It's the same on other drugs pages there. That's wikireality for you.
I pay royalties for articles. You'll get one half of the advertising revenue for each page. The page must generate a minimum of $50 of revenue before you'll get a check for $25. If the page generates more than that in a month, with luck you'll get a check that much. I can't promise timeliness, given the chaos that is my life at the moment.
Also I can't always put something up quickly, so ask if there's an article waiting to be published. I can let you know if someone is working on something. I have no deadlines, given that some of my truly craptastic paragraph-long pieces have been up for almost four years now.
But really, if this site has been helpful to you, that's what really matters. While I'm in this for the money, the primary purpose of this site is to make sure you get the appropriate health care and get your life together as best you can. So being extra nice to someone you have to deal with in your life, passing the site's URL along to someone else who could use the information presented here in a way that doesn't link to us (e.g. on paper), remembering us in your prayers, writing us a nice e-mail (while we do appreciate the fan mail we rarely have the time to reply) or just saying, "Thanks" in the direction of your computer screen, that all works for us too.
Many of you have asked about The Overlords of the 12 Zernox Galaxies who have compelled
me to ask you for your support / spare change. Yes, you're all correct, it is
an homage to the ubiquitous Frank Chu, the Emperor Norton of the 21st
century. Maybe with the help of an atypical antipsychotic
he could still be an accountant.
I doubt the majority of people in San Francisco would want that, but who knows what Frank
really wants? As much as I enjoyed the ever-changing signs Frank carried around and
his dedication, as I'd pass him on my way to work around seven in the morning, I'd see him
look more and more haggard at times. He'd be gone for days at a time, only to
re-appear with renewed enthusiasm, and sometimes different wrap-around sunglasses.
Schizoaffective? That's my guess.
I think Frank would be better off with an antipsychotic. Maybe even something
old-school. But then again, I always liked accounting.
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Take care of yourself, and keep taking your crazy meds!
If you still have unanswered questions about this or other medications, including which
one is, or combination of meds are the best for you, your best bet is to ask on Crazy Meds Talk. Better
yet, if you want to let the world know how they worked out for you and want to help out
others in their quest for the correct meds, join the party.
If you want to discuss your issues, I suggest checking out one of the various
support groups online.
Otherwise, if you're letting me know about how much you like or hate the site, or
need to let me know about medication effects in private, then just drop a note to jerod23
at gmail dot com Honestly, I usually don't have a lot of time to answer e-mail
these days. The snide autoresponse message that may or may not hit your mailbox is
going to tell you the same thing.
Another problem is that you may not get a response even if I wanted to send you one.
You see, so many dickweeds with malicious intents and too much time on their hands have
appropriated the crazymeds.org domain name to use for their spam, viruses and the
like. Subsequently some lazy-ass e-mail protection software authors just go by the
domain name, and not the IP address. So I've been blacklisted because of the actions
of others. Or the software just doesn't like the domain name because of the
"crazy" and/or "meds." Or your question about a particular
medication will set off spam flags. So the e-mail just wouldn't go through
regardless. Sorry.
Hey, did you find this page all by itself through Google or some other search engine? Great! But to really appreciate the entire site, you need to start here.
Created Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Last updated Monday, May 24, 2010
Copyright © 2003 - 2010 Jerod Poore. All rights reserved.
Almost all of the material on this site is copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Jerod Poore. Except, of course, the PI sheets, those are the property of the drug companies who developed the drugs the sheets are about. And any documents that are written by other people which may be posted to this site will remain the property of the original authors. You cannot reproduce this page or any other material on this site outside of the boundaries of fair use copying without the express permission of the copyright holder. That's usually me, so just ask first. That means if want to print out a few pages to take to your doctor, therapist, counselor, support group, non-understanding family members or something like that - then that's OK to just do. Go for it! Please. As long as you include this copyright notice and the following disclaimer, I'm cool with it.
All rights reserved. No warranty is expressed or implied in this information. Consult one or more doctors and pharmacists before taking, or changing how you take any neurological and/or psychiatric medication. Your mileage may vary. What happened to us won't necessarily happen to you. Nobody on this site is a doctor, therapist, or a pharmacist. We don't portray them either here or on TV. Only doctors can diagnose and treat an illness. Some doctors tend to get pissed off by patients who know too much about medications, so tread lightly when and where appropriate. Diagnosing yourself from a website is like defending yourself in court, you suddenly have a fool for a doctor. Don't be a cyberchondriac, thinking you have every disease you see a website about, or that you'll get every side effect from every medication. Self-prescribing is just as dangerous. All information on this site has been obtained through personal experience, the experiences of my friends, the experiences of people reported on online support groups, and from sources that are referenced throughout the site. Know your sources! As such the information presented here is not a substitute for real medical advice from your real doctor, just a compliment to it. No neurologists, psychiatrists, therapists or pharmacists were harmed in the production of this website. All brand names of the drugs listed in this site are the trademarks of the companies listed after them in the pages about the drugs, even though those companies may or may not have been acquired by other companies who may or may not be listed in this site by the time you read this. Always read the PI sheet that comes with your medications and never ever throw them away. If you didn't get a PI sheet, demand one. Loudly. Crazy Meds is not responsible for the content of sites we provide links to. We like them, or they're paid advertisements, or they're something you should read to make an informed decision about a particular med. Sometimes they're more than one of those things. But what's on those sites is their business, not ours. Very little information about visitors to this site is collected or saved. And from time to time I do look at search terms used to find it in an effort to make the information I present more relevant. Use only as directed. Void where prohibited.
"Everything is true, nothing is permitted." - Jerod Poore
