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Know your sources! Don’t trust any random website. Just because it’s on the Internet doesn’t automatically make it true!
Unlike most consumer/peer-run mental health sites, I’m out in the open about being batshit crazy. The stigmata regarding mental illness, epilepsy, assorted other neurological conditions, and taking the medications to treat them are such that I don’t blame anyone for wishing to remain anonymous. It’s easy for me to come out of the mental health closet. I’m on SSDI and I’m treatment-resistant, so it’s highly unlikely I’ll ever be able to hold a job. Plus I’m pushing 50, rarely leave my property more than twice a month, and live near the crossroads of No and Where Montana, so it’s not like there are a buttload of employment opportunities waiting for me. Half the people in the small (population ~350) town know me as the guy who never leaves his house, and they give as much as a rat’s ass about it as I do. Ted Kaczynski interacted with his neighbors more than I do.
HON Code of Conduct Principle 1 - Indicate the qualifications of the authors
As we have written all over the place, nobody here is a doctor, or anything close to a doctor, although I just love the term Citizen Medical Expert, even if nobody else uses it. The only official letters after my name are A.A. From Heald college. During the Big Iron Age.
Let’s not forget about qualified by experience. I’m bipolar, epileptic, and in the moderate Asperger’s part of the autism spectrum. I’m frequently agoraphobic and generally socially indifferent to avoidant. I’ve lived with several people who have a variety of brain cooties. Bipolar disorder is a popular trait with the male members of my family. My ex-wife’s siblings are schizophrenic, and pharmacophobia killed her brother. There are few medications discussed on this site that I don’t have up close and personal experience with.
Jerod Poore AA, CME, QBE
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Know your sources!
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 as dangerous as buying meds from fraudulent online pharmacies that promise you medications without prescriptions.
All information on this site has been obtained through our personal experience and the experiences family, friends, what people have reported on various reputable sites all over teh intergoogles, the medications’ product information / summary of product characteristic (PI/SPC) sheets, and from sources that are referenced throughout the site. As such the information presented here is not intended as a substitute for real medical advice from your real doctor, just a compliment to it. You should never, ever, replace what a real doctor tells you with something from a website on the Internet. The farthest you should ever take it is getting a second opinion from another real doctor. Educate yourself - always read the PI/SPC sheet or patient information leaflet (PIL) that comes with your medications and never ever throw them away.
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 else we think you should read to help you 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. From time to time I look at search terms used and which pages they bring up in an effort to make the information I present more relevant. And the country of origin, just because I’m geeky like that. That’s about it. Depending on how you feel about Schrodinger, our privacy policy should either assuage or exacerbate your paranoia.
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*While there are plenty of books to help you with hypochondria, for some reason there’s not much in the way of websites. Then again, staying off of the Internet is a large part of curing/managing the disorder.
‘Everything is true, nothing is permitted.’ - Jerod Poore
