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It's Okay to Need Medication for Mental Health Treatment

Zencare

There are 298 mental health conditions currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition-TR, which is the standard reference for clinical practice among trained, licensed mental health professionals, in the US. Written by Rebekah Ferguson, LMHC.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

The STAR*D study was the third of three major studies conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to determine the effectiveness of drug treatment of depression. The second NIMH depression treatment study , which was published in 1992, reported on the long-term outcome of these drug treated patients.