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Dear Psychiatrist – I Survived

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I was having nightmares and flashbacks from childhood trauma that I had successfully hidden in the recesses of my mind until that time. You said this when I described my nightmares and flashbacks and the confusion and terror I had as I remembered my childhood trauma. “It I had just had surgery to have my thyroid removed.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Thus STAR*D could only document a get-well/stay-well rate at the end of a year of only 3%. This in contrast to the previously mentioned 2006 NIMH-funded study that documented a one-year remission rate of non-medicated depressed patients of 85%. for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2%

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The Making of a ‘Madness’ That Hides Our Monsters: An Interview with Audrey Clare Farley

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While they documented a lot of the abuse that the girls had endured, both at the hands of their father and even the community members, they didn’t really perceive that abuse as leading to mental illness. This was documented by the NIMH researchers, but they didn’t view it as leading to serious mental illness.

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

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The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) The rise in trauma diagnoses is partly driven by the misuse of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) framework, which was designed to study the link between childhood trauma and long-term health, not as a diagnostic tool.