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

Mad in America

For example, the violent crime rate fell by 49% between 1993 and 2022, with substantial decreases in robbery, aggravated assault, and murder rates. However, current trends show a very different picture. Violent crime rates in the U.S. have declined significantly since their peak in the early 1990s.

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May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

Mad in America

In this interview, we talk about her experiences of withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects , published in 2022 which is one of the first books on antidepressant withdrawal to make it to the mass market. I’m diagnosing a depressive and anxiety disorder and recommending medication.”

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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In 2022, one of us (DH) emailed 300 Professors and other Medical Grandees, who had reviewed articles for NEJM that year. Rather than give us a serenic, which many might feel was not unreasonable to take at times, doctors have to give us an anxiety disorder.

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

Mad in America

Almost universally, whenever a body of experts gets together to review the definitions of a condition, as they do with high blood pressure, Type 2 Diabetes, depression, and social anxiety disorder, almost inevitably, they will widen the definitions. In 2022, drug and device makers paid 20 billion Australian dollars to U.S.