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

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Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures. “I This is evidenced by the 2010 article “ Bloodletting 1854 ,” published by the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) , the official journal of the APA. Greenstone tells us: “Dr.

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

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They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — otherwise known as the American dream. My mother passed away in 2001.

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

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While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. Since 2010, trauma diagnoses among adolescents have surged, rising from about 3% in 2010 to over 8% by 2023.

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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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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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In 2009-2010, I had a very tough time. In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Anniek: I had cleared six months of time to make sure I had time for optimal self-care.

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

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Five months after Prozac came to market, the NIMH launched a “Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment” campaign. 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%.