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Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2024
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).
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses. Should we still be calling it emotionally unstable personality disorder?
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
For months, the GP had focused on an alleged traumatic event causing her significant psychological distress. They could not recall any traumatic event, confirming instead a stable and nurturing home life. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.
Mad in America
JUNE 22, 2024
The result is a form of “marketing” that encourages self-diagnosis and the embrace of disorders as identity by watering down the definition of mental suffering—and, paradoxically, minimizing understanding and compassion for those who are truly struggling. .’ Still, this extreme openness isn’t completely new — especially online.
Mad in America
MARCH 2, 2024
In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Almost all of the disorders that I had been diagnosed with were in complete remission. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.
How Psychiatry Works
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
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.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. The re-framing of diagnosis as identity in some parts of the neurodiversity movement leads to an insistence on identity-first language—an ‘autistic person’ rather than ‘a person with autism.’
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