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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

Mad in America

Either you must admit that you’re on honest person, weather pending, or you have to be flexible with social constructs like “sick” or “honest.” It showed up in the literature for the first time in 1974, when a small number of psychiatrists published some clinical observations of a “therapy resistant depression.” I’ll mention two.

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

Mad in America

667 In an NIMH study of 547 patients that compared six-year outcomes for depressed people treated for the disorder and those who eschewed medical treatment, the treated patients were three times more likely than untreated ones to suffer a cessation of their principal social role and nearly seven times more likely to become incapacitated.