Mad in America
JANUARY 20, 2024
In the article, Torrey reviews the history of the Human Genome Project, their hopes for identifying the genetic basis for schizophrenia, and how those hopes have been dashed by the complete failure to find anything of the sort. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder.
Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.
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Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. had no clinically significant benefit over a placebo.”
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. I decided to agree with the medical model, that it was a genetic disease that could be treated with a medication, like diabetes. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. I was angry.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
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%
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. Number eight was my comment on the National Board of Health’s website. ” It is elementary knowledge that it is statistically completely wrong to adjust for something that is part of the causal chain.
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.
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