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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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The three trial reports seriously underreported suicide attempts, other suicidal events, and precursors to suicide and violence on active drug, and provided false claims that the drugs were effective. After 19 weeks, 42 children on fluoxetine versus 28 on placebo had experienced nervous system events (P = 0.01).

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. I believe these kinds of questions will shape our understanding of the future of mental health.

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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

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The mania, paranoia, delusional thoughts and rage I’d been experiencing in the days and weeks leading up to this event became an untenable crisis. I was a shell of my former self, unable to think, staring off into space; all while trying my best to care for my family. Broken trust It wasn’t just the doctors I’d lost trust in.

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RADAR and the Dignity of Risk-Taking

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The deinstitutionalization era marked a shift toward community-based mental health care, highlighting the importance of individual choice and self-determination. A Danish shooting in a shopping mall in 2022 is a good example, where a leading Danish psychiatrist claimed the event was caused by medical undertreatment.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year. As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature. There can even be a legal dimension in which a doctor is held culpable if he contravenes a guideline.

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TIFT #113: Guilt and Responsibility

How Psychiatry Works

Once operational, it provides internal self-regulation by producing emotions of pride and guilt according to positive and negative judgments made in the light of internal values. Adverse events such as death, illness, displacement, or change in economic status can disrupt basic security. Humans are immensely social animals.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

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Prior to the SSRIs, psychologists and other mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, considered many depressions to be a self-limiting disorder, meaning that even without treatment, the depression will often subside perhaps due to favorable changes in the depressed person’s behavior or favorable environmental changes.