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ADHD Drugs Linked to Cardiovascular Disease

Mad in America

They used the National Inpatient Register for data on diagnoses, the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register for data on prescriptions, the Longitudinal Integrated Database for Health Insurance and Labour Market studies for socioeconomic data, and the Swedish Cause of Death Register for data on participant deaths.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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I tapered off citalopram with tapering strips between October 2019 and January 2020. Between April 2020 (last pill) and August (4 months later), I was not that worried yet. On August 8, 2020, I first noticed that something was going wrong in my head. In 2020, Charlotte Bouwman held a sit-down event at the Ministry of Health.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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The first Mental State of the World Reportreleased by The Global Mind Project , which has hosted online surveys examining global trends in mental wellness since 2020, found respondents from South Africa and the UK had the poorest mental health of the 64 countries represented. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report.

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That Others May Live: An Airman’s Mental Health and Medication Hurricane

Mad in America

People Over Pills My retirement from the Air Force in 2020 was medically mandated due to the volume and intensity of the therapy I was attending over the previous eighteen months—combined with the medications I was prescribed. At this time I all but gave up on the VA and instead used my health insurance to access a civilian counselor.

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. In 2020, RNA was coded for Covid-19’s protein, resulting in a drug that stimulated the immune response for Covid-19. That has not happened.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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In 2020, Hjelmeland et al. What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. However, the review did not include the numerous studies or reviews that went against the authors’ dangerous recommendation of drug therapy as suicide prevention. It was exceedingly difficult for Hjelmeland et al. to publish a criticism of the report. [8]

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

44 Behavioral therapy is used by just 44% of pediatric patients, in part because its not always covered by medical insurance and knowledgeable providers are scarce. In addition, neurofeedback is seldom covered by insurance and involves a significant investment of time and money. 2020 Sep 22;81(6):19m13130. 10.1176/appi.ajp.163.4.716.