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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD. The Office on Women’s Health makes similar recommendations as in the StatPearls article, but they place an emphasis on therapy, support groups, self-care, social support before turning to medication. We need pills, but we need much more.”

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. ECT is a psychiatric treatment for clinical depression and other mental health conditions in which electrical impulses are passed through a persons brain to cause brief seizures (Egan, 2018).