Mad in America
MARCH 28, 2024
W hile going through a divorce in 2012, award-winning documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman from London was prescribed escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro, from Lundbeck). Then, her private insurance ran out, and she was admitted to a public hospital where they stopped all the drugs cold turkey.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
28] They referred to a meta-analysis by Gibbons from 2012. While going through a divorce in 2012, she was prescribed escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro, from Lundbeck) even though she was not depressed, only distressed. What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. This taboo kills people.
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Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
Similarly, “ Myth: Reframing Mental Illness as a ‘Brain Disease’ Reduces Stigma ” (2012), the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) concluded: “Biological explanations can also instill an ‘us vs. them’ attitude, defining individuals with mental illness as fundamentally different.”
Mad in America
DECEMBER 13, 2023
It was a joint project and it launched in January of 2012. The rest is mostly funded through private health insurance that people are paying for. Louisa Putnam wrote to me after Anatomy of an Epidemic was published with some questions. The three of us got together and said let’s start a website, and it was founded by us three.
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
44 Behavioral therapy is used by just 44% of pediatric patients, in part because its not always covered by medical insurance and knowledgeable providers are scarce. In addition, neurofeedback is seldom covered by insurance and involves a significant investment of time and money. 2012 Jan;51(1):86-97.e8. 2012 Dec;80(6):1041-1051.
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