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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

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If you go before 1980, back to DSM-I and DSM-II, those books tell of how psychiatric disorders often are reactions to difficulties in the environment or, say, to stressors in the family. There was always a core group of biological disorders, but that was a small group. Then we got juvenile bipolar disorder.