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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

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W hen it comes to information on ADHD, there are no rules on what are considered good and bad practices. Unbalanced, for instance, in the sense that much emphasis is placed on brain and genetic studies that to this day have cost billions of dollars, while showing only very small associations—not providing any basis for biological screening.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. healthcare, primarily “everyday” healthcare. I expanded my review of research to include non-psychiatric health problems and my 22-year review of the health outcome research has culminated in this book. In this blog, he introduces the book. as in a Ph.D.

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My Chronic Illness Was Misdiagnosed as ‘Mental Illness’

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I had no history whatsoever of mental health issues or mental illness. And now, all of a sudden, I was “very mentally ill” and committed to a psych hospital against my will. Unfortunately, the remaining 25 percent are genetically unable to make antibodies to these toxins. (pg.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Searching for the Psychiatric Yeti: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic In January, Peter Simons wrote that the decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Nor have any new treatments become available from this research.

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From Anxiety to Advocacy: How Pharmacogenomic Testing Helped My Mental Health Journey

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.” The thought of waiting for results terrified meI was in a bad place mentally and didnt have time to wait and deal with medication trial and error. PGx tests analyze your DNA for genetic variants that may impact how your body metabolizes or responds to certain medications. My platform is mental health.

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

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We see the same lies, denial and misleading information about psychiatry everywhere, 7 as illustrated so convincingly in Whitaker’s review of Insel’s book. In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness. 7 These people are highly effective drug pushers. 695 This is sickening.

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

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. At one time I thought that the FDA efficacy standard for psychiatric drug treatment of mental health problems has a lower standard than for general medicine, but later in my review of health research I found that in many cases this was not true (as I will discuss in Chapter 6).