Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
T he harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis , and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine ) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Antidepressants? John’s wort-treated patients).
Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2024
T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. Drugs like mirtazapine improve appetite and sleep; this is a tonic effect.
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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Mom continued to struggle to overcome depression until her death in 2002. No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 23, 2023
209,640 Lundbeck patented the active half of citalopram (Celexa or Cipramil) before the patent ran out and called the rejuvenated drug escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro), which it launched in 2002. 639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. It is the other way around.
Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. 26 These authors estimated that sleeping pills kill between 320,000 and 507,000 Americans every year. Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care. 2 Gøtzsche PC.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 13, 2023
The dreadful physical symptoms of severe depression, including cognitive decline and impaired eyesight, overwhelmed my existence, and I started to keep a naive collection of aspirins and over-the-counter sleep aids for ending my life. However, psychotherapy or psychiatric treatment weren’t native concepts rooted in our local context.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.
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