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

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In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) , reported that among American adults, serious suicidal thoughts occurred in 6.6%

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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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. On Whitaker’s Mad in America website there are two more reviews of Insel’s book.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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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.