Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2024
.” —Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955) W ith the mainstream media finally reporting that “ depression is not caused by low levels of serotonin ,” many people ask me: Why does psychiatry repeatedly get it wrong when it comes to not only to its theories of mental illness but in so many other areas?
Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2013. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To To be clear, I have no regrets about NIMH funding for genomics and neuroscience.”
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.
Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, 1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death. As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%.
Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. Similar results were found in an RCT done by Lex Wunderink, reported in 2013 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. A 2013 national survey, issued by the U.S. With the fall of the serotonin-imbalance theory, there was no scientific explanation for the mechanism of antidepressants.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. Number eight was my comment on the National Board of Health’s website. ” It is elementary knowledge that it is statistically completely wrong to adjust for something that is part of the causal chain.
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