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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

Mad in America

I tried going back to school after the brain injury, but between the bipolar disorder and the head trauma, I couldn’t handle the stress and pressure anymore. I was told that only temporary, minor memory loss was possible, in rare cases, before starting ECT in 2013. A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

INTRODUCTION Background, Aim and Method Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by social communication difficulties and restricted repetitive thinking and behavior (Battle, 2013). 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A. Bateman, 2012). Theory of mind, 2.) Stichter et al.,

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

One of many psychiatrists exposed by 2008 Congressional hearings on psychiatry’s financial relationship with drug companies was Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman—credited with creating pediatric bipolar disorder—who received $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.