Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

In the article, Torrey reviews the history of the Human Genome Project, their hopes for identifying the genetic basis for schizophrenia, and how those hopes have been dashed by the complete failure to find anything of the sort. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Searching for the Psychiatric Yeti: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic In January, Peter Simons wrote that the 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. Nor have any new treatments become available from this research.

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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. 6 In hospital records and coroners’ reports, deaths linked to prescription drugs are often considered to be from natural or unknown causes.

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Aging and mental health Hospitality Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

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. I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. And they did.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 143

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. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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.

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Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 144