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Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology

Mad in America

Moreover, in stark contrast to the discoveries by medical researchers of biological causation for many physical illnesses, psychiatric researchers have failed to find physiological or genetic causation for the most diagnosed mental disorders—the anxiety disorders and depression—negating the rationale for the prescription of these drugs.

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Mental Healthcare for Veterans in TriWest States

Solara Mental Health

TriWest has a Behavioral Health Division that encourages veterans to receive care for PTSD, depression, suicide prevention, substance use disorder, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, military sexual trauma, and domestic violence. Behavioral Health services can be authorized by the VA and TriWest for coverage.

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

Mad in America

Anxiety and depression, including major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), are commonly mistaken for PTSD or complex PTSD due to shared symptoms such as persistent sadness, sleep disturbances, tension, and difficulty concentrating. CBT helped her identify and challenge negative thoughts.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

Mad in America

This movement escalated by the marketing of Prozac in 1987, a medication which was said to effectively treat clinical depression and several anxiety disorders without the risk of overdose deaths of the earlier antidepressant drugs such as Elavil. In reading the above the reader may say, “Dr.

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Women’s Mental Health Care: A Historical Perspective & Progress

Lightwork

Lucy Burns documented the emotional suffering of fellow suffragettes who endured force-feeding and solitary confinement. Healthcare providers developed targeted approaches for conditions like premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and anxiety disorders specific to women.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. This process of medicalisation is now all too often a default response to distress and happens on a large scale.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

Three other published critiques of the STAR*D study document this malfeasant reporting of the findings —all to no avail because psychiatry is in total control of the narrative. In 2010, I was one of the authors of a published critique of the STAR*D study’s reported findings.