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Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?

Mad in America

The reason we say “gobsmacking” is because it’s not something that Irish psychiatrists have said publicly before, although a representative for the College did say in a 2015 media article that people didn’t really believe it anyway. This is simply not the case.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

Through the years roughly 2000 to 2015, the profile of suicide prevention and mental health, especially depression, grew considerably in Australia (as it did in other countries), and with this the domination of the mental health/suicide prevention sector by the biomedical approach.