This is not just about PTSD. I was reading and found this information in the article
Mansell, P. and Read, J. (2009) Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Drug Companies, and the Internet, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 10(1) 9–23.*
The following is an excerpt:
Website Selection
In June 2007, Google and Yahoo! were searched by entering “posttraumatic
stress disorder,” producing nearly 3 million results. The first 60 websites
were identified from each search engine. Of these 120 websites, 54 were
included for analysis (see Table 1). Website exclusion was due to duplication
(websites appearing in both Google and Yahoo! were recorded only
once), an exclusive focus on children or adolescents, insufficient content,
and content only obtained by links to external websites or several external
articles.
Funding Categorization
Websites were classified as DCF
if they were
drug company sites,
displayed drug company advertisements, acknowledged
financial support from one or more drug companies,
or acknowledged drug companies as partners. Otherwise they were classified as non-DCF.
Website Categorization
Websites were classified into eight categories: government, nongovernmental
organization (NGO), professional (organizations and individuals), consumer
(websites run by families, carers, and/or supporters of individuals with a
mental illness, and individuals with PTSD), media, education (any website
connected to an educational institute, including medical colleges, universities,
and academic journals), business (including websites that stated they were a company or owned by a company, that did not state they were nonprofit; and sites run by professionals who were promoting their services), and drug company (sites owned by drug companies).
I've taken an antidepressant and Klonapin since I was dx'd with DID(MPD) in 1994. Recently I have been questioning taking medication and I have been reading.I don't know if I want to try life without meds but the seed of an idea has been planted to try that. I am reading about therapy with meds and therapy w/o meds and I came across this info.
I thought someone might be interested since I was. Here is the table. Or if you want to see it bigger go see the whole article via the link.
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