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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic. A person may come into hospital on no drugs at all, only to leave with several psychiatric drugs, often causing adverse side effects which leads to more prescriptions to counteract the side effects.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. However, the following factors might be more plausible. It creates a risk of misclassification, often referred to as “bracket creep.”
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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
True, the consequences are more drastic for Anniek and her loved ones with her soon-to-be death than for the prescribers who will have to come to terms with the idea that they were not correctly informed, and thus too often provided patients with incorrect information and did not treat them with enough care. Anniek: Yes indeed!
Mad in America
MARCH 12, 2024
Mental health awareness is a movement that has everyone seeking treatment and support for their “mood disorders” and “personality disorders” and “neurodivergency”, but this system isn’t leading to wellness—it’s impeding it. Psychiatric verdicts are not just the property of those who deliver them.
Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2024
Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. Forest’s internal documents showed that company staff were aware of the problems.
How Psychiatry Works
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Guilt, on the other hand, while assuming that our personhood is an established fact, questions whether we are a “good person” or a “bad” one. Both shame and guilt bear the stamp of our evolutionarily earlier form of information processing. “See I really am a bad person and I have been one all along.
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