Mon.Feb 19, 2024

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A Dangerous Idea: ‘Bury Bad Thoughts to Boost Mental Health’

Mad in America

From Sylvie Rouhani/CPTSD Foundation : “ An article caught my eye the other week from the German Press Agency, ‘o ne of the world’s leading independent news agencies.’ The headline reads: ‘Bury bad thoughts to boost mental health, Cambridge team suggests.’ [However,] experts in trauma-informed and compassion-based therapy models encourage us to do the opposite.

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Antidepressant Use Tightly Correlates with Increased Suicide Rates

Mad in America

Proponents of antidepressants have long proposed the theory that increased antidepressant drug prescriptions would reduce suicide rates at the population level. Yet analysis after analysis has found that suicide rates have increased alongside increasing antidepressant drug use (and actually decreased when antidepressant prescribing took a dip, too ).