Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. And so I spent a lot of my teenage years visiting him in various mental hospitals and getting a very clear glimpse of the toll of this cycle of hospitalization, labelling and drugging. I was also put on Prozac.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. We are talking about hospitalized depression.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Yousaf Raza Illicit Ties with the Pharmaceutical Industry Prescribing more medications than are justified is the number-one crime of which a shamefully large number of psychiatrists are guilty. The answer is simple: it is also the standard that pharmaceutical companies hold us to. This is where the kickbacks come from.

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