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Dismissing the “Human Experience”: College Students Feel Unseen by the Medical Model of Mental Health

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For example, a 2023 study reported that 46 percent of college students had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder at some point in their lives, while a 2017 study found that use of psychiatric treatment had nearly doubled in college students since 2007, rising from 19 to 34 percent. Something about that just feels kind of dystopian.”

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

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639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. A 2007 paper surveying US department chairs of medicine and psychiatry reported that 67% of them had received “discretionary funds” from industry within the last year. 643 The three professors’ praise of the drugs continued.

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Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT

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She was prescribed what she assumed were sleeping pills and had taken some to sleep. When the NYS Office of Mental Health held a conference on research in 1988, Linda and I both attended. We didn’t stop anyone from entering the Center; we were just trying to educate people. But the pills were neuroleptics.