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Irrational Polypharmacy: How Integrated Mental Health Treatment Can Help

Mad in America

This includes treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia and the depressive phases of bipolar disorder, despite the fact that SSRIs can sometimes trigger manic episodes. C urrently, antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs for a wide range of diagnoses, not just depression and anxiety.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

That’s one of the reasons, by the way, that Mad in America has personal stories, and that we also have blogs talking about these initiatives such as respite houses. Moore: This is from Kent who says, why is the critical psychiatry community often so skeptical of psychedelics? Then we got juvenile bipolar disorder.