Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this way, we put everyone else who is injured by the drug in a state of legal jeopardy because companies can claim nothing like happened in our studies – it’s your anecdote against our evidence. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

This would seem to meet the legal criteria for libel, given that both the STAR*D authors and the AJP knew that Pigott and colleagues had done no such thing. As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased.

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

At any one time, I would say about a third of my practice is comprised of lawyers or law students, of which a large majority suffer from depression or some related mood disorder such as persistent depressive disorder or bipolar disorder. Can you tell us what kind of issues concerning depression lawyers come to you for?

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Zencare

MARCH 3, 2025

It is a key feature of bipolar disorder symptoms and can significantly impact a persons ability to function. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition that requires a combination of medication, cognitive behavioral therapy, and lifestyle changes for effective treatment. Treatment options may include: Mood stabilizers (e.g.,

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Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Healthcare 52

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The number of pharmaceutical products in the home today is unprecedented—and drugs, both legal and illegal, continue to be the leading cause of child poisoning. Rebecca started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of two and was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and pediatric bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Psychiatry cites twin studies as the gold standard in support of the discipline’s disputed claim that psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are genetically based brain disorders only minimally influenced by environmental factors or “triggers.” Bouchard, Jr.,

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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.

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