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How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey

Mad in America

The two positive themes were ‘symptom reduction’ and ‘sleep’. Maybe helpful for a short time, but likely not worth it in the end they clouded my perceptions and sense of self very badly’ ‘They are not “antipsychotic” they just helped me sleep.’ ‘I 10 Thematic analysis identified 749 negative, 180 positive, and 53 mixed statements.

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Letting Go of Lithium

Mad in America

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 started talking fast, coming up with ideas and creative projects and I stopped sleeping. They said if I didn’t go to sleep they would make me. And they did. I was angry.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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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. between 1990 and 2019.”

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

Mad in America

11 Drug usage is now so common that newborns in 2019 could be expected to take prescription drugs for roughly half their lives in USA. As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. Mental health survival kit and withdrawal from psychiatric drugs.

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How Epigenetics Could Revolutionize ADHD Care

ADDitude

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes.

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The Lie That Antidepressants Protect Against Suicide Is Deadly

Mad in America

In 2019, a new analysis came out that included what happened after the patients had stopped their participation in the trial. 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.

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

Mad in America

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. By 2019, Big Pharma’s $6.6