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

Mad in America

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 multiple studies linking childhood trauma to depression, The Truth About Depression (2003) reports that depression was from 1.6

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

Mad in America

The National Centre for PTSD attributes this to the fact that men are more likely to experience trauma, but women are more likely to develop PTSD, possibly due to higher emotional sensitivity and reactivity, which increases susceptibility to mood disorders. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

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Living on the Edge – Snapshots of PTSD: Suicidality from PTSD vs. CPTSD

The Art of Healing Trauma

It was only 2 years after the accidents (accidents were 2007 and 2008 and I wrote this in 2010). In the Discussion, I discuss 13 Reasons I was Suicidal due to PTSD in 2010 , 13 Reasons I’m Suicidal due to CPTSD Now in 2020 and Additional Commentary – Tragedies and Hiding One’s Truth. Mike was my boyfriend at the time.)