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Antipsychotics Lead to Worse Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis

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The researchers note that these services are provided to the entire population as needed and recorded in the registry based on their universal healthcare system. Researchers have increasingly identified childhood trauma as the primary cause of psychosis , even as biological theories involving dopamine and genetics have been debunked.

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

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Then in 2023, Ed Pigott and his co-researchers, utilizing the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials initiative, conducted a reanalysis of STAR*D, which was published in BMJ. The cover of the December 2023 Psychiatric Times issue announced : “STAR*D Dethroned? But What If It’s Broken?” among those who were on probation.

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

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The National Centre for PTSD attributes this to the fact that men are more likely to experience trauma, but women are more likely to develop PTSD, possibly due to higher emotional sensitivity and reactivity, which increases susceptibility to mood disorders. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.