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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. Less publicized in 2022 was another powerful discrediting of psychiatry’s neurobiological disease model. among those who were on probation.

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The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus

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By framing childhood trauma as entertainment, the ad distracts users from their usual associations with the concept and focuses on incredibly common experiences like having low self-esteem or struggling to manage emotions. But I don’t know how far their understanding goes.”

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

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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.