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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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Similar results were found in an RCT done by Lex Wunderink, reported in 2013 in JAMA Psychiatry. The DSM manufactures illness from normal human reactions by some individuals in response to some environments. The severe short-term and long-term iatrogenic adverse effects of antipsychotic drugs are uncontroversial. between 1990 and 2019.”

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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David Russell How the Shield Operates David Oaks, who directed MFI from its inception until 2013, told Mad in America that he started the Shield program with MFI board member Krista Erikson around 20 years ago, inspired by Amnesty International campaigns pressuring elected officials to intervene to stop human rights abuses.

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

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But the person prescribing them (or manufacturing them) has a different problem to solve: explaining why I should still trust them to guide me to wellness. The therapy to which they referred was entirely pharmaceutical—it was always a failure to improve with medication. The depression eggs are all in one pharmaceutical basket.