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What It’s Really Like Inside a Psychiatric Ward

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The most desperate year By 2010, I’d been depressed for three years without respite. I’d thought about suicide every day, but until 2010, it was a daydream. I’d thought about suicide every day, but until 2010, it was a daydream. In 2010, I felt a serious pull to take action. 2010 was different.

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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

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Based on an earlier bio-babble theory that irregular convulsive action of the blood vessels was the cause of madness (and other diseases), Rush was an enthusiastic proponent of what was called “depletion therapy,” which included aggressive bloodletting, notes Gerry Greenstone in “ The History of Bloodletting ” ( BC Medical Journal , 2010).

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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

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When my father was diagnosed with dementia in 2010, I assumed the role of Successor Trustee, per the trust documents. He removed me as the successor trustee, placing himself as both successor trustee and my dad’s attorney in 2010. My mother passed away in 2001. ” His siblings all lived there, too.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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Indeed, as Pigott and collaborators reported in their 2010 paper , of the 4,041 patients who had entered the study, only 108 were well and still in the study at its end, a documented stay-well rate of less than 3%. The New Yorker, famed for its fact-checking, did so in a 2010 article. 9 ↩ This history is excerpted from R.

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The New York Times Is Now Engulfed in the STAR*D Scandal

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The low serotonin theory of depression fell apart long ago, and Ed Pigott and colleagues published their first report on the STAR*D transgressions in 2010, telling of protocol violations that had been employed to inflate the reported remission rate. However, it is not a story of advance that has survived the test of time.

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

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Ed Pigott and his co-researchers published an analysis in 2010 that showed of the 4,041 patients who entered the study, only 108 remitted, stayed well, and remained in the study to its one-year end. In evaluating any drug treatment, scientists also examine whether its benefits outweigh its adverse effects.

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Bridging the Gap: Why Black Voices Must Shape Mental Health Research

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In 2010, a therapist suspected I may have ADHD. But beneath the surface, throughout my mid-20s to early 30s, I struggled to keep a job, faced eviction, defaulted on student loans, and drank heavily to quiet my racing thoughts and overwhelming feelings of anger, isolation, and hopelessness. My response? Thats not something Black women have.