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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! Post-discharge suicides were most frequent in the first two weeks after discharge, the highest number on the first day!

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

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S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.