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Ten Years Later: Still Shooting the Odds

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The difficulties stopping antidepressant are summarized by Dr. John Read in a Psychology Today article updated on 9/15/23. Dr. Read recognizes the need for greater education of mental health professionals to assist with deprescribing. Too often to be able to say that this is very rare and unlikely to happen.

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Systemic Insanity

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Editor’s Note: This article, written by Julia X, was first published on our affiliate site, Mad in Sweden. To understand mental illness, we first need to understand what a person really is. Psychologists help people who feel bad and doctors prescribe medicine for broken brains with a lack of one or another neurotransmitter.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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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. The article bowled me over. (An

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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The article, written by John Miller, editor-in-chief of Psychiatric Times , prompted readers to consider the possible extraordinary harm done. To conduct this campaign, the NIMH enlisted “labor, religious, educational groups” and businesses to help spread its message. The drug was marketed as an antidote to a disease.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? I embraced mental health support for many years because I found that it made me healthier. When I did manage to taper off a bit, I felt an immediate improvement in my health.

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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

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The young dancer’s story—at her request and her father’s, she’ll remain anonymous—illustrates both the lure and harms of social media, which has been drawing more and more attention of late for its ubiquity, its addictiveness, its corporate habits, and its role in the youth mental health crisis. hours a day on social media.”

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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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. Many people will not know that an article has been published before it is too late to criticise it.