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

Mad in America

Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Mad in America

I was given psychotherapy all through this time, but the therapists were not impressed by my accounts of childhood trauma. When my book was published in 2006, I was doing ok, but it didn’t last long. I never improved, instead slowly became worse and worse, as a revolving door patient.