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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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In 2020, Hjelmeland et al. 18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” The Lancet is the extended marketing arm of the pharmaceutical industry, [21] just like the New England Journal of Medicine , which has also published articles denying that depression pills cause suicide. [22] 21] Smith R.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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If one reads the ADM literature, it is quite apparent that the pharmaceutical industry—with the help of psychiatry—since day one has been involved in a cover up of the dangerousness of these drugs. of the drugs reviewed had two or fewer cases of violence, which is reassuring for most pharmaceuticals. meprobamate) as well.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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Thus, to recognize the act of caring itself as resistance, resistance to the biomedicalization and dehumanization of their illness experience, and as acts of solidarity and survival in this world (Cook, Trundle, 2020). 2020), Unsettled Care: Temporality, Subjectivity, and the Uneasy Ethics of Care. link] Charani, Esmita et al.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. By the mid-2020, the hashtag #TraumaDumping had garnered over 2 billion views on platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

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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).

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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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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

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Given the current level of neuroscientific understanding of causality in the brain and nervous system, it seems pretty much inevitable that exposure to pharmaceutical psychotropics will produce adverse consequences. Even if the harms are not properly recognized or understood till decades later.