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What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?

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I had been sent to a psychiatrist at Manchester Royal Infirmary after my 2 nd violent mugging; I wasn’t eating or sleeping. I was now terrified to leave my home and so it had taken several panic attacks just to get to the hospital. My mental health went down fast this time. Nobody talked about self-harm back then.

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Letting Go of Lithium

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My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. I started talking fast, coming up with ideas and creative projects and I stopped sleeping. On the drive back from the hospital I found out that we had evacuated our home due to black mold.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. For Illich, the iatrogenesis of modern medicine is clinical when harm to individuals results specifically from medical treatment.

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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.

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What I Wish I’d Asked Dr. Gabor Maté When I Had the Chance

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She also revealed that a neighbor had to take us to the hospital. I believed my alcoholism was genetic and treated it as a spiritual malady. Plus a third prescription antidepressant for sleep such as amitriptyline or trazodone. Six years ago, after my second wife died, I found a new career in mental health care.

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The Lie That Antidepressants Protect Against Suicide Is Deadly

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Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. Number eight was my comment on the National Board of Health’s website. ” The authors presented another analysis in which they had adjusted for psychiatric hospital contact.

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Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions

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The truth is that, in our “diagnostic culture,” all these behaviors and emotions will be translated as symptoms of some mental disorder classified in the DSM. In his words: “Hospitals are part of life in this world. That anguished search ended, tragically, with her first psychiatric hospitalization.