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Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
In 2017, suicide experts wrote in the Swedish medical journal that antidepressants, lithium, and clozapine prevent suicides, but several of their references were seriously misleading, and I noted that there is no reliable evidence that any drug can prevent suicide. [5] 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The screening test recommended by the World Health Organization is so poor that for every 100,000 healthy people screened, 36,000 will get a false diagnosis of depression. The outcome of the US suicide prevention programmes has been the opposite of what was expected. For war veterans, the results have been very similar.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 29, 2024
I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! Post-discharge suicides were most frequent in the first two weeks after discharge, the highest number on the first day!
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
When the FDA analysed all the trials in 2006, there was a curve in their report that showed that the suicide risk increased right up to the age of 40. Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. ” This information is not entirely accurate.
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. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
668 A WHO study of 640 depressed patients found that those treated with medication had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill than those who weren’t treated at the end of one year. 119:24 Whitaker also mentioned the MTA trial ( see Chapter 9, Part Two ).
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