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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. Many were not aware of these risks prior to starting them. Millions of others share this experience.

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The Significance of Semiotics in Social Work

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However, despite its vast potential, semiotics has yet to be widely incorporated into social work practice and education. This blog post seeks to illuminate semiotics’ untapped power in social work and advocate for its integration as a novel approach to fostering more nuanced, empathetic, and compelling client relationships.

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

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Consensus reality would have us believe that increased compulsory schooling equals increased education, however, a critical thinker questions this certainty. If a major part of true education is inspiring and energizing us to be curious and enjoy reading, there is empirical evidence of standard schooling’s anti-educational effects.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. However, the following factors might be more plausible. These symptoms are rooted in persistent emotional dysregulation rather than a singular traumatic event.

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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment

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However, careless, discouraging drive-by comments on a social media platform may have unintended consequences, even if meant to be educational. Telling people theyre destined for the worst possible outcome can create a self-fulfilling “nocebo” effect, reinforcing the very dependence they seek to escape.

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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

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Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures. “I Authored by psychiatrist Marshall Garrick, this article provides a window to the cultural values of psychiatry, and how self-serving rationalizations are considered artful diplomacy.

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Everything About Us Without Us

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Other deficiencies included underfunding, overcrowding, a need for unspecified changes to civil commitment and sterilization laws, improved education with a closer relationship to the medical school, and better treatment for the mentally ill in other hospitals and almshouses. You might lose months of memory and some loss of self-esteem.