Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SSRI treatment of the anxiety disorders. T he clinical efficacy of SSRIs in treating various anxiety disorders for which these drugs have FDA approval is no better than their record in treating depression. S hould Xanax-type drugs be used for treating stress-anxiety?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. We stopped going to public places and events; we hunkered down. Sadness, anxiety, and depression increased alarmingly. That has not happened.

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Zencare

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Natural disasters are powerful and unpredictable events that often leave lasting physical and emotional scars. The immediate aftermath of such traumatic events often brings feelings of shock, fear, and grief. Anger can also arise as survivors process feelings of powerlessness during the event.

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Anxiety Sisters

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We know traveling can be anxiety-provoking, but come with us to a faraway landjust for a minute. It hosted political and civic events, the arts, and sports. As is true of anxiety disorders in general, women are twice as likely to become agoraphobic as men. The Agora, in Ancient Greece, was the center of the action.

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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. This distress may significantly overlap with many of the symptoms usually taken to suggest mental illness or disorder (such as those associated with depression and anxiety).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But after this event, I started visiting the school counsellor frequently. The anxiety disorder eventually made me afraid of ever leaving the house alone, or staying at home alone. I hated the “anxiety disorder” back then, but now I see that it saved my life at the time. Or “You are lying/exaggerating.”

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