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Antipsychotics Lead to Worse Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis

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This included 3714 adolescents ages 13-20 who received a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder between 2003 and 2013 and had never before taken antipsychotic drugs. Researchers have increasingly identified childhood trauma as the primary cause of psychosis , even as biological theories involving dopamine and genetics have been debunked.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Childhood Trauma : Adverse childhood experiences include physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect, and family trauma (such as a parent in prison, or witnessing a parent physically abused by the other parent). for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2%