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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention

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These mechanisms are not established, and arguably never will be, since mental illness typically consists of complex situations that are unlikely to be explained by a deterministic, mechanical model of causation (Moncrieff, 2020). On the one hand it feels as if they have never had it so good.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. View-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk: Adult Screening Programme: Depression July 2020, UK National Screening Committee. Preventive Services Taskforce.

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

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In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.