Mad in America
JANUARY 16, 2024
S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. A well-substantiated body of scientific research argues for rejecting psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm for mental health and mental disorder and replacing it with a social/psychological paradigm.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
In the protocol for my study, I noted that the textbooks should mention that the causes of psychiatric disorders are mainly environmental, and not genetic or related to a visible brain abnormality. In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness. 695 This is sickening. 10:63 This is b t.
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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
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Another paper confirmed that, like the public but unlike most psychiatrists, the majority of people who are prescribed antipsychotics have psycho-social rather than bio-genetic causal explanations for their difficulties 11. Perhaps they have personally had a bad experience with mental health services but not with this particular treatment?
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop. There are no studies, not yet.
Mad in America
JULY 6, 2024
Premise In our information we always emphasize that psychotropic drugs do not have a specific action on mental problems or psychopathology, but only on their symptoms. Essentially, the development of this hypersensitivity can cause abnormal reactions when the same drug or a different drug is reintroduced.
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes.
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