Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
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]
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
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.
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Mad in America
JUNE 4, 2024
I n 1936, at age nineteen, a German woman named Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island. Buck, who lived to the age of 102, fought throughout her life for psychiatric reform. Buck also demanded recognition of the Nazi murders of the disabled and the mentally ill.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
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. The seminar was very long, 14 pages, with 142 references.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
In this interview, he speaks with Mad in Americas Javier Rizo about the intersections of therapy and politics, the importance of pluralism in mental health care, and the future of counseling psychology as a force for progressive change. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Mick Cooper: Thanks, Javier.
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