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		<title>YouTube Medical Video: The Weird, the Ugly, and the Sometimes Helpful</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/05/30/youtube-medical-video-the-weird-the-ugly-and-the-sometimes-helpful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 15:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Mowbray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to take the measure of American health obsessions (and those of the rest of the world, for that matter)?  Go fishing in YouTube, the billion-screen multiplex of the video id. The channel contains a deep and often deeply weird vein of health content, ranging from the inspiring to the neurotic, the crackpot to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=295&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Britney Spears Is Not a Poster Child for Mental Illness</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/02/06/britney-spears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Britney Spears mental condition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Phil]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britney Spears’s new role as poster girl for mental illness may be preposterous, but her escalating self-destruction sure looks like the real thing.
And I’m not alone in feeling a certain thrill at the spectacle. A multibillion-dollar gossip economy has sprung up to satisfy the cravings of a global audience for stories like Britney’s. There’s something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=137&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could New Brain Cells Cure Your Depression?</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/01/30/could-new-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Armstrong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cytokines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurogenesis depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new brain cells and depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tryptophan serotonin-reuptake blocking]]></category>

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This is the third—and final, I promise—course in possible new treatments for depression. For those of you who are still with me, congratulations and you have my sympathy. Even if you don’t run out and apply the latest discoveries in depression to your treatment plan, at least you will have a glimpse of where innovative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=126&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mood-Lifting Drugs of the Future</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/01/23/mood-lifting-dr/</link>
		<comments>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/01/23/mood-lifting-dr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Armstrong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I tested your patience by playing Mr. Science. This week allow me to introduce you to the real thing—Michael Maes, a flesh-and-blood neuropsychiatrist from Belgium. His method of diagnosing and treating patients with depression may give you and your doctor some innovative options to add to your antidepressant regimen now or down the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=112&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Trust</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/01/16/brain-trust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Armstrong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antidepressant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enough with the soft stuff. This week, my fellow depressees, we start getting serious about science.
Here’s why. Last year at a meeting I went to for work, Eric Kandel, a legendary neuroscientist who won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the molecular basis of memory, learning, and much more, was asked what clinical areas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=99&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Holiday Season of Quality Alone Time</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/01/09/another-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrismas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loneliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it wasn’t that bad, even for Scrooges like me. The holiday spirit got into my blood—the trees and decorations, the Bing Crosby soundtracks, the crowds of gift givers loaded down with shopping bags, pushing and shoving, half drunk on the adrenaline released by buying and buying and buying. 
Such expectation in the air!
My coworkers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=88&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking About Talk Therapy</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2008/01/02/talking-about-t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Armstrong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn’t take long before most of the people who meet me learn that I’m in psychoanalysis and on antidepressants and other meds. 
I have no qualms about popping my Cymbalta, Wellbutrin, naltrexone, and Klonopin (as needed) in public. After spending many years around gay men who were walking pharmacies of AIDS medication, it’s just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=72&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Antidepressant Sexcapades, Part Two</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2007/12/19/antidepressant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Armstrong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anorgasmia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dysfunction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ED]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Effexor]]></category>
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Something’s been bugging me all week. …
The last thing I want this blog to do is scare anyone away from getting treated for depression. In dwelling on the sexual side effects of the Prozac-type drugs, I don’t want to leave the impression that you have to choose between happiness and horniness—that in swallowing that pill, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=58&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Try Harder</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2007/12/12/we-try-harder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I originally thought of this blog entry as “Where, Oh Where, Did My Orgasm Go?” I had in mind a comic riff on that most notorious downside of antidepressants: sexual dysfunction (SD). I was going to regale you with anecdotes of my many frustrating, fumbling, ultimately heroic efforts to achieve sexual satisfaction against the seemingly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=47&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still Hopeful After All These Years</title>
		<link>http://pokedandprodded.health.com/2007/12/05/still-hopeful-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Armstrong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was thinking: Here I am, writing a weekly blog about depression and related matters, but what makes me the expert?
I’ve never attempted suicide, never spent the weekend hiding under the covers, never gone more than two or three days without eating or sleeping. Till recently I had never even joined any of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pokedandprodded.health.com&blog=2779996&post=38&subd=healthpoked&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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