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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. There are no studies, not yet.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

Mad in America

However, the creation of a “Prozac Nation” might not have been successful without the help of the NIMH, which launched an “educational campaign” at that time designed to change the public’s understanding of depression. Two years later, in a National Institute of Health study that compared Zoloft to St.

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

Mad in America

Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? Especially when you consider that it is now known that women react differently to antipsychotics than men ( de Boer, Brand, Sommer 2022 ). That didn’t improve how I felt at all.

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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. Then, the doctors graduate, and much of the continuing medical education they receive is sponsored by pharmaceutical interests. I started writing books.

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

Mad in America

The young dancer’s story—at her request and her father’s, she’ll remain anonymous—illustrates both the lure and harms of social media, which has been drawing more and more attention of late for its ubiquity, its addictiveness, its corporate habits, and its role in the youth mental health crisis. hours a day on social media.”

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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. On Whitaker’s Mad in America website there are two more reviews of Insel’s book.