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Letting Go of Lithium

Mad in America

I had headaches, brain fog, and fatigue. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. “Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

Mad in America

This paper is surprising since Torrey has long argued that schizophrenia is a brain disease to be treated biomedically. T he decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Fuller Torrey.

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

Mad in America

The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. Psychiatric medications serve to suppress and disempower individuals from claiming and digesting their own traumas and global sufferings. Today, 65 million Americans are on one or more prescribed psychiatric medications.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

These positive outcomes also include improved relational functioning, enhanced mentalization abilities, and increased quality of life. It is well established that ASD is linked to difficulties with an ability what Peter Fonagy and colleagues call mentalizing; a cognitive and emotional understanding of human behaviours.

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

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.