1 Boring Old Man takes on Charles Nemeroff : "Abusers often have undiagnosed or untreated mental illness", says Nemeroff

One of my new favorite blogs is authored by a retired (still volunteers) psychiatrist, who--in his writings and musings on his blog, definitely does not equate to "boring".

Charles Nemeroff, the ex-Emory Dept of Psychiatry Chair, investigated for non disclosure of income by Grassley and full of COI (conflict of interest) due to the pharma income, residing in a big mansion in Miami (that GSK built)is one of Boring Old Man's topics to write about.

Charles Nemeroff has been quoted in the news in Miami after a rash of domestic violence and deaths as saying:

"Abusers often have undiagnosed or untreated mental illness."

This classic stigma coming from one of the most conflicted and arrogant Psychiatrists known in the psychiatric world has inflicted a direct hit at violent behavior linked to mental illness in the mass media--increasing stigma, and then goes as far as to say abusers are undiagnosed or untreated mentally ill--

Here's an excerpt from Boring Old Man's post:

"I don’t exactly know how to say it. In Charlie’s world, a mental illness is like an entity, a thing. And there’s a treatment, discovered or not, probably some chemical, that will fix it. So a person has psychotic depression, and you treat it with a drug. If they don’t get better, you try another one, or add one. People who don’t respond are called "treatment resistant" and get put in a trial to try something else, like an atypical antipsychotic or a vagus nerve buzzer or maybe even a morning after pill. Here are the things in that logic stream that are unproven - all of them."

Read the entire article HERE.

Thanks for saying it!