Mad in America
JANUARY 20, 2024
Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In research circles, he’s known as the founder and executive director of the controversial Stanley Medical Research Institute, which has spent more than $550 million on biological research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder over the past few decades.
Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist. Greenstone tells us: “Dr.
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NAMI
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In 2010, a therapist suspected I may have ADHD. Over the next 13 years, I cycled through different doctors and different diagnoses (depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder II), none of which fully explained my struggles. My response? Thats not something Black women have.
Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2025
In a 2010 paper , Pigott and colleagues also made sense of the graphic representing the one-year results. Mad in Americas review of Pigotts 2010 paper was titled: “The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up. As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 30, 2023
When Whitaker wrote his book, Anatomy of an Epidemic : Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America , first published in 2010, 5 he started out with a medical puzzle. 5 Whitaker is a careful researcher and his book is highly convincing.
Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2025
But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. Kirsch, I The Emperors New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, Basic Books, New York, 2010. Its debilitating symptoms will make their lives a constant battle.
International Society for Interpersonal Psychother
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.
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