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Letting Go of Lithium

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I had headaches, brain fog, and fatigue. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. “Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

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For a period of four years, from 2014 through 2018 during his decline and overwhelm, Matt was prescribed five different antidepressants layered on top of one another without tapering, which ignited a cycle of adverse reactions. Thankfully, from my work as a music college professor, I understood the connection between music and the brain.

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

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This paper is surprising since Torrey has long argued that schizophrenia is a brain disease to be treated biomedically. T he decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Fuller Torrey.

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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

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But by the end of 2018, life started to become overwhelming. M y brother Jesse sat next to me on the couch in my living room. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us. My mind raced. I believed my brother’s life was in danger. I believed I was the only person who knew it and only I could save him. Instead, they were about me.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

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The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT.

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What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?

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I was now terrified to leave my home and so it had taken several panic attacks just to get to the hospital. I was never given an official diagnosis. Back in the early 1980s in the UK no one would have thought to ask what their doctor was writing in our file. It was for them, not us, full consent wasn’t in our consciousness.

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

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P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?