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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. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry  

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Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. This third part of this series on Neurodiversity consists of an essay by a therapist who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of the consequences for their job. The series is being archived here. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we—e.g.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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A dozen years ago I created a website, now extinct, called ‘Five Years’ From the David Bowie song of the same name (“We had five years left to cry in”). The idea was to see how my attitudes evolved over the coming five years: toward optimism, toward pessimism, or same-same. I was told, and believed, that I would be on this drug for life.

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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

Mad in America

Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals. Trauma fragments our being as we disconnect from our experiences, suppress our feelings and hide away our wounded parts. When trauma is healed, so do our bodies. When trauma is healed, so do our bodies.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

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Ninety-one years later in 2023, over 50,000 Americans died of suicide; more than any year on record. Psychiatric medications serve to suppress and disempower individuals from claiming and digesting their own traumas and global sufferings. I want to feel something strongly.” Is it not our responsibility to look deeper and ask, “Why?”

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. That’s been the question posed to me in 2023 by interviewers such as Nick Fortino on “ Psychology Is ” and Mollie Adler on “Back from the Borderline. ” adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.