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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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Still, you and your family should be aware of the possibility of side effects in the future and being made aware does not mean the doctor softly saying “Well, there are some known side effects, but how about we try this?” Many were not aware of these risks prior to starting them. Millions of others share this experience.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

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It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. That lengthiest hospitalization occurred just prior to the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004, which killed 230,000 people. This solution has proved to be enormously successful.

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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

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They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — otherwise known as the American dream. That was just the beginning.

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

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A 2004 study , “Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Depressive Disorders in Adulthood,” reported that exposure to such traumatic experiences is “associated with increased risk of depressive disorders up to decades after their occurrence”; and that childhood emotional abuse increased risk 2.7 fold for lifetime depressive disorders.

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. A fraudulent citalopram trial In 2004, Karen Wagner et al. 10 Keller et al.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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Five months after Prozac came to market, the NIMH launched a “Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment” campaign. The results , which Rush reported in 2004 , were dispiriting. Most depressions are self-limited,” wrote Jonathan Cole, head of the NIMH’s Psychopharmacology Service Center, in 1964. Show 2 footnotes D.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

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But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. Within four months it escalated to panic attacks and pacing, but he was not telling us because he thought he was reacting normally to bad decisions — self-recrimination is a symptom of akathisia.