Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. I do know that I was also hospitalized in 2005, just as Hurricane Katrina was getting ready to make landfall. Around the 2016 hospitalization my diagnosis was elevated to schizoaffective disorder and I was placed on everyday Zyprexa.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

In 2005, a year before the STAR*D reports appeared, the APA published a press release telling how a survey had found that 75 percent of consumers believe that mental illnesses are usually caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. This was the governing public narrative when the STAR*D trial was conducted.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2005, Iain Chalmers, the head of Cochrane, testified that ghostwriting is rare and only happens in peripheral journals who publish the dodgy stuff. If you buy the idea your suicidality on an SSRI is evidence of a bipolar disorder, or your loss of libido, darling, is your depression, you and your doctor become more spell-bound.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A review of poisonings among children age 5 and younger found that opioids were the leading cause of fatal poisonings between 2005 and 2018. Rebecca started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of two and was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and pediatric bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. Eaton, L Regulator restricts use of SSRIs in children BMJ, 2005 Apr 30;330(7498)984. Its debilitating symptoms will make their lives a constant battle. 2008 Sep 25;2;26.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

By 2005, Eli Lilly had amassed over $22 billion in sales from its SSRI Prozac; and Lilly’s antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, at its peak, grossed more than $5 billion in annual sales. The psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex is fueled by the profits of Big Pharma, which have made a staggering amount of money from psychiatric drugs.

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