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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop.

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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

Mad in America

His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022. You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine. In the age of the internet and social media, there are other numbers of ways. I’m sure for some people, those neurotransmitters have a role, of course.

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Romantic Love and SSRIs

Real Psychiatry

In their analysis the independent variable was SSRI use and they examined biological sex, mental health problems, intensity of romantic love, obsessive thinking, commitment, and frequency of sex as the dependent variables. Their demographic of young college age students may have been limiting. September 26, 2022.

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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

Mad in America

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

Mad in America

668 A WHO study of 640 depressed patients found that those treated with medication had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill than those who weren’t treated at the end of one year. 119:24 Whitaker also mentioned the MTA trial ( see Chapter 9, Part Two ).