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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. 18] Goldney had received “gold” “from a number of pharmaceutical companies.” The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40]

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This ongoing failure can be traced back to the publication of DSM-III in 1980, when American psychiatry adopted a disease model for categorizing and treating mental disorders.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

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One of these studies, sponsored of course by a pharmaceutical company, was conducted by the Kansas University Medical School, Wichita branch, and I attended, along with a group of local psychologists, a presentation of this study in progress by one of the staff psychologists who was one of the researchers and CBT therapists.

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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. Gibbons has been an expert witness in lawsuits for two pharmaceutical companies that sell antidepressants. Number eight was my comment on the National Board of Health’s website.