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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

Mad in America

But the person prescribing them (or manufacturing them) has a different problem to solve: explaining why I should still trust them to guide me to wellness. The eighties and nineties were a depression-treatment renaissance. Her depression was treatment resistant but it wasn’t Justine resistant. billion worldwide.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

A few years ago, one in five US adults reported having ever received a diagnosis of depression. At a cost of 35 million dollars, NIMH’s STAR*D study, which was published in 2006 , is the most extensive and expensive study ever conducted to determine the effectiveness of drug treatment for depression.