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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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A 2022 large study , lead-authored by Marc Stone at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, examined 232 drug-company trials on antidepressants submitted to the FDA between 1979 and 2016. In multiple studies linking childhood trauma to depression, The Truth About Depression (2003) reports that depression was from 1.6

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Mad in America

I was given psychotherapy all through this time, but the therapists were not impressed by my accounts of childhood trauma. By 2016, I had seriously started to doubt that suffering awful side effects from taking off-licence high doses of two antidepressants was worth my while.

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2017: My Descent Into Mayhem

Mad in America

It might have been the re-activation of deeply rooted childhood trauma brought on by situations in my workplace. I’d made a few attempts to get back to my institutional state job over the years but finally made the return in 2016. It might have been a spiritual awakening. I struggled within it.