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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

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I tried going back to school after the brain injury, but between the bipolar disorder and the head trauma, I couldn’t handle the stress and pressure anymore. I did not get jokes, or references to famous people, places, or events. I struggled despite all my efforts, struggled greatly. I clean houses now and do senior caregiving.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

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Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.

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

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659 They referred to drug-induced dopamine supersensitivity as a likely reason for this difference in outcomes. As Whitaker noted, the research literature shows that psychosis pills and depression pills increase the chronicity of the disorders, and the same is true for stimulants, benzodiazepines, and drugs used for bipolar disorder.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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One of many psychiatrists exposed by 2008 Congressional hearings on psychiatry’s financial relationship with drug companies was Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman—credited with creating pediatric bipolar disorder—who received $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.