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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery

Mad in America

” I promised him and kept that promise until 2016, when I was coming off Latuda and he prescribed the same opioid. Though I didn’t tell Terry my life story, I mentioned that I’d been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder back in the late 90s. She quipped, “ Everyone has bipolar.”

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

Mad in America

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. This explains why the U.S.