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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature. fold increase in the reports of fatal ADEs”.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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Philips AIDS Center in a village near Anjar, Gujarat was established by Father Paul on 11 January 2005, after he lost his nephew Philip, 31 years old to AIDS. To imagine these people as having traversed these landscapes losing all their belongings and sense of self. NIGHT Night at Philip AIDS Center.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Raising awareness about depression, screening for it, and teaching that its common but underdiagnosed, at first glance seem like good things. So its particularly easy to get them to adopt an inferior self-image.

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RFK Jr. May Be Wrong on Many Medical Issues, But He’s Right About Antidepressants

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On March 21, 2005, 16-year-old Jeffrey Weise went on a killing spree at two different placeson the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Red Lake , Minnesota. It is high time that more politicians, journalists, health officials, physicians, psychiatrists, and patients were made aware of this potentially lifesaving information.