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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

In 2004, the evidence that pretty well the entire pediatric antidepressant literature was fake, with GSK sued for fraud, caused Cochrane problems. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. Since 2004, they have been telling us to report adverse effects to the FDA and not to them. You will see a glassy-eyedness.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. This process of medicalisation is now all too often a default response to distress and happens on a large scale.