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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. . “Alternatively, we may view withdrawal symptomatology as part of a more general problem related to the use of antidepressant medications. Current MIA supporters can log in below.

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APRIL 30, 2024

A n article in a Danish newspaper from 14 April was very frustrating to read but was typical for the totally uncritical way journalists deal with issues in psychiatry. The article says that children do not outgrow their ADHD diagnosis. The article says that children do not outgrow their ADHD diagnosis.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

These harms increase the risk of suicide and violence, but the published article did not present any such data. There were no data about these important harms in the published article. Similarly, we do not find new evidence in support of your request to retract this article.” cm and 1.1 kg, respectively (P = 0.008 for both).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Their article was very difficult to publish. When the article was published and the editor invited comments, none arrived. published an article online with interviews of professionals about their experiences of working with the implementation of the Norwegian action plans and guidelines for suicide prevention. [9]

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2024

You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. The study, led by Québécois researchers Sébastien Brodeur, Yohann M. Chiu, and Josiane Courteau, was published in JAMA Network Open. Current MIA supporters can log in below.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. Moran is also affiliated with Harvard Medical School as a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, as is Ongur. Perlis is affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Mad in America

MARCH 4, 2025

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 28, 2023

O n September 9, Mad in America set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract its 2006 article that told of a 67% remission rate in the STAR*D trial. At that time, we put up a petition on change.org urging that the Am J of Psychiatry retract the 2006 article. Mad in America, a U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

“ You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. Ignorance about withdrawal effects could lead to telling patients withdrawal symp toms do not exist, and/or misdiagnosing them as a relapse of the condition for which the drugs were prescribed.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Article 12 of the CRPD recognizes that all persons with disabilities, including those with psychosocial disabilities, enjoy the right to exercise their legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all areas of life.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

All of the ingredients for a blockbuster article were now clearly visible, including an acknowledgement from inside psychiatry that this story was of profound importance for all of our society. Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles.

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Critical Psychiatry

JANUARY 13, 2025

I mentioned the Sunday Times magazine article about Joanna Moncrieff in my last post , where I focused on the issue of whether antidepressants work. I also wanted to pick up what the article says in its introductory rubric about Jo daring to argue that depression is not a physical disease.

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JULY 13, 2024

The content and style of Ghaemi’s article, which is more of a rant than a scientific commentary, suggest he was extremely upset that this cherished belief had been challenged (Ghaemi, 2022 ). Ghaemi was not solely responsible for the tone of his article, however. The article mentioned pseudoscience but quite briefly.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These percentages appear nowhere in the article they cite. [12] 12] The article shows the results in a graph from which I measured that 69% versus 34% were very much or much improved. Empirical evidence for selective reporting of outcomes in randomized trials: comparison of protocols to published articles.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” Article → Back to Around the Web The post The Psychiatrist Who Got Hooked on Antidepressants — Now, He Helps Others to Quit appeared first on Mad In America. .’ ’ Many who had sought medical help for their symptoms had been told that they were simply experiencing a relapse of their original mental health condition.

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Critical Psychiatry

MARCH 1, 2025

my BMJ article with corrections - see previous post ). The trouble is that this situation means that providing increasing resources for mental health services can never meet the perceived need of the population (see eg.

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MARCH 27, 2024

I recently co-authored a preprint article with Ken Richardson, formerly Open University UK (now retired), entitled “ The Bell Curve at 30: A Closer Look at the Within- and Between-Group IQ Genetic Evidence.” The larger question of whether or how heredity influences human intelligence was beyond the scope of our article.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Billions of Dollars Later, Neuroscientists Still Struggling to Address Mental Health Crisis appeared first on Mad In America. It could be that neuroscience simply hasn’t had enough time to develop truly effective mental health therapies for most conditions.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

The article, written by John Miller, editor-in-chief of Psychiatric Times , prompted readers to consider the possible extraordinary harm done. There were, however, a smattering of articles that had appeared in Europe by this time that suggested antidepressants were altering the long-term course of depression, and not in a helpful way.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In this article, I examine what the DSM system is and what it isn’t. ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Why the DSM Is Mostly False | Nassir Ghaemi, MD appeared first on Mad In America. It tends to be worshipped; some view it as the literal truth; it can inspire, but it can be used to suppress dissent.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

”’ Article → Back to Around the Web The post “Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown appeared first on Mad In America. .’ ”’ Article → Back to Around the Web The post “Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown appeared first on Mad In America.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

This is evidenced by the 2010 article “ Bloodletting 1854 ,” published by the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) , the official journal of the APA. Authored by psychiatrist Marshall Garrick, this article provides a window to the cultural values of psychiatry, and how self-serving rationalizations are considered artful diplomacy.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A new article published in BMC Medicine finds that antidepressant use in two Scottish regions increased 27% between 2012 and 2019. ” You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. Current MIA supporters can log in below.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A new article published in Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology finds pregnant women that chose to stop using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) did not face increased negative outcomes compared to pregnant women that continued using these drugs.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2024

F amily estrangement is on the rise, headlines read, followed by many articles about setting healthy boundaries, communication, self-care and emotional maturity. ” The essence of the first half of the article is nobody is perfect, get over it. What is missing from this article are clear and wide pathways to relationship repair.

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Mad in America

APRIL 27, 2024

Anyone who had read the first three articles could only be confused by this November report. In 2010, they published an article that told of how the STAR*D investigators had violated their protocol to inflate the reported remission rate. It did so in an article that promised to tell readers the “facts” about antidepressants.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 6, 2024

You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. They argue that slow tapering and careful monitoring can mitigate risks, ensuring that the principles of nonmaleficence and beneficence are upheld. Current MIA supporters can log in below.

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JANUARY 10, 2025

There are ongoing ethical, moral, and legal challenges surrounding the prescription and discontinuation of antipsychotic medicationschallenges that a new article suggests can be addressed through the lens of epistemic injustice.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

A similar point was echoed in a recent Telegraph article titled ‘The Mental Health Con is Bankrupting Britain’ , which argues that declining workplace resilience is fuelling worklessness; an occupational idleness that over-medicalisation validates and funds.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in Ireland. The reason we say “gobsmacking” is because it’s not something that Irish psychiatrists have said publicly before, although a representative for the College did say in a 2015 media article that people didn’t really believe it anyway.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A StatPearls article lists a variety of likely causes, ranging from a risky or difficult pregnancy and a history of previous depression and anxiety to a myriad of social and lifestyle features which can include a lack of social support, spousal/partner abuse, eating habits, sleep cycles, and even a lack of certain vitamins. Pharmacist.

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Very Well Mind

MARCH 7, 2025

In this article, we explore what quiet quitting looks and feels like, and what to do if you think your partner is slowly pulling away from your relationship.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Mental Health Patients ‘Raped and Sexually Assaulted’ as NHS Abuse Scandal Revealed appeared first on Mad In America. The fact these have taken place in the NHS is chilling.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

I wrote this article because of continued inaction by the FDA, DEA, HHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to inform veterans, their families—and all Americans—of the dangerous risk profiles of the drugs they’re prescribed. This causes confusion for providers and unnecessary suffering for patients.

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