Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

They conducted a review of current guidelines that met the criteria of being peer-reviewed guidelines published after 2004 in English, Dutch, or French, that were centered on monitoring major adverse effects and included evidence-based recommendations.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

In 2004, in response to Kim Witczak and other surviving families, the FDA began requiring SSRI drugmakers to add a Box Warning on the packaging of all SSRI antidepressants related to suicide risk. Nearly half said they believed they were trapped on the antidepressant drugs they were prescribed.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 16, 2024

8 RIAT Investigators’ Reply: In 2004, JAMA published an article on completed suicides and severe suicide ideation/attempts in 159,810 depressed patients prescribed an antidepressant. 20 The JAMA 2004 article was highly-cited, and therefore should have been well-known in 2006 by the STAR*D PIs.

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MAY 12, 2025

quoted by Spiegel, 2004) Professor Donald Klein, another leading figure in the development of the DSM-3, put it like this: we were forced to rely on clinical consensus, which, admittedly, is a very poor way to do things We thrashed it out, basically. 2004, December 26). Bloomsbury Press. The Lancet , 387(10034), 2339. The New Yorker.

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ADDitude

JUNE 5, 2025

To support our mission of providing ADHD education and support, please consider subscribing. Your readership and support help make our content and outreach possible. References Seligman, M. Learned Optimism. Seligman, M. Authentic Happiness. Simon Element / Simon Acumen

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ADDitude

MAY 13, 2025

Sources 1 Kilpela, L.S., Hooper, S.C., Straud, C.L., Marshall, V.B., Verzijl, C.L., Stewart, T.M., Loera, T.T., Becker, C.B. 2023) The longitudinal associations of body dissatisfaction with health and wellness behaviors in midlife and older women. Int J Environ Res Public Health. link] 2 Berrettini W. The genetics of eating disorders.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

A 2004 study , “Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Depressive Disorders in Adulthood,” reported that exposure to such traumatic experiences is “associated with increased risk of depressive disorders up to decades after their occurrence”; and that childhood emotional abuse increased risk 2.7 fold for lifetime depressive disorders.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

The 2004 national South Africa Stress and Health study , the first large-scale research project of its kind in the country, found the lifetime prevalence of any DSM mental health diagnosis to be 30.3%. It was also conducted in English, only one of South Africas 12 languages.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

The results , which Rush reported in 2004 , were dispiriting. Healy, Let Them Eat Prozac (New York: New York University Press, 2004): p. The 118 patients were treated with antidepressants together with emotional and clinical support “specifically designed to maximize clinical outcomes.” Show 2 footnotes D.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

An analysis of adverse drug events submitted to the FDA between 2004 and 2009 identified 1,937 cases of violence, 387 of which were homicide. Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them. Brain-active substances can lead to violence, including murder.

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Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

That lengthiest hospitalization occurred just prior to the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004, which killed 230,000 people. From 2001 to 2008, I was hospitalized for mania at a rate of almost once per year (7 times in 8 years)—including one month-long hospitalization.

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Kids Mental Health Info

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The Individuals with Disabilities EducationAct (IDEA 2004) The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ensures that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education that offers special education and related services designed to meet their own needs and prepare them for further education, employment, and (..)

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National Association for the Advancement of Psycho

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Clinical psychologist Isabel Caro (2004), who received the J. We criticize the very concept of technique in psychoanalysis as relying on an assumption that one isolated mind, the analyst, is supposed to do something to another isolated mind, the patient (pp. References Caro, I. General semantics theory: Its implications for psychotherapy.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

Although the study protocol was silent on how dropouts would be counted, a 2004 article by the STAR-D investigators stated that patients with missing HAM-D scores at the end of each treatment step were assumed to not have a remission, meaning that they were to be chalked up as treatment failures.

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Mad in America

APRIL 9, 2024

How patient contributions led to the development of tapering strips In 2004 Dutch wood carver Harry Leurink proposed the making of a ‘ medication withdrawal strip ’ : ‘ A very gradual decreasing dosage of medication packaged in strips with a time sequence ’. This started me thinking about finding ways to prevent withdrawal also.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In July 2004, shortly after starting Paxil, I had a psychotic episode and took the life of my 11-year-old son, Ian, in London, Canada. I assumed that if there were any risks with taking Paxil, he would tell me. After a successful 20-year career promoting physical activity and sport, with no history of mental illness, I was tragically wrong.

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

2004) and Diamond et al. Ghaemi, in contrast, appears to use a post-hoc selection strategy: selecting studies and statistical methods which lead to results that confirm his preconceptions, and then finding reasons for justification. Pre-registered systematic reviews were invented to prevent these biases. Ghaemi cites Sweeting et al.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

A fraudulent citalopram trial In 2004, Karen Wagner et al. They were fobbed off with a lecture about “editorial independence” and a patronising dismissal: “I have talked with [the Editor] and he assures me there is no cause for concern.”

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Mad in America

JUNE 24, 2024

The study included Medicaid data on 2,067,507 patients aged 5-24 years old who first started a psychiatric drug between 2004 to 2013. Ray at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Furberg 12 studied under the Freedom of Information Act the question of prescription drugs and violent behavior by reviewing the FDA’s Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) from the years 2004 to 2009.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Beyond Blue was a key pioneer of workplace mental health training in Australia and has been highly influential in the development of workplace mental health activity.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, in 2004, the New York attorney general filed a consumer fraud action and collected $2.5 and the latter reanalysis appeared in a British journal, BMJ, 10 as noted above. Many involved in the fraudulent original study should have gone to prison, but I don’t think any were even charged with a crime. million in fines from GSK.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

” Dad had met her at a grief group in February 2004. While going through his checkbooks, I became aware that he was regularly giving large sums of money to Lilo Kruger, his “lady friend.” Within three weeks, he had given her a check for $700. That was just the beginning. He also gave her cash every two or three weeks.

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Real Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

2004 Aug;48(8):2787-92. 2024 Oct 18;14(1):24433. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-75965-2. PMID: 39424950; PMCID: PMC11489776 3: Spruance SL, Reid JE, Grace M, Samore M. Hazard ratio in clinical trials. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. doi: 10.1128/AAC.48.8.2787-2792.2004. 48.8.2787-2792.2004. PMID: 15273082; PMCID: PMC478551. 2011;2011:432607.

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Mad in America

JUNE 21, 2024

The following is the letter I sent to the head of the VA: * * * March 11, 2024 Dear Secretary McDonough: Thank you for taking the time to read about the life and death of my son, Cody Camacho, who took his life on November 2, 2021 after close to 20 years of struggling with severe PTSD from his service in Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2004.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

Furthermore, I made the connection with my brother-in-law, who died by suicide in 2004 at the age of 52, who showed no sign of mental illness until he began antidepressants in his late 30s. No one else in our family has had leukemia. My sister was 13 years younger than me with the same blood type.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 16, 2024

Being eaten alive by panic, I’m only able to process snippets of information: Eric Steel spent all of 2004 filming the Golden Gate Bridge, capturing footage of people as they either jumped or attempted to jump off of it. The man with the baseball cap is a tourist and photographer who Eric Steele had interviewed for the documentary.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 19, 2025

David Sbarra When he joined the University of Arizona and founded the Laboratory for Social Connectedness and Health in 2004, the field was still largely undefined. David Sbarra began studying social relationships and health at an integral time for the fields of clinical and social psychology.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 21, 2025

I investigated this issue in a new study examining 240,000 empirical psychology papers published from 2004 to 2024. In social psychology, where median sample sizes hovered around 80100 participants for much of the period between 2004 and 2014, the median has since surged to approximately 250 participants. 01 p < 05).

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I now try to put the reasons for all this into perspective—and I realize that even then, as the boy I met that spring of 2004, he acted out because even if he didn’t comprehend it yet, he was suffering. As he confessed to me months before, he was struggling with depression and anxiety, which led him to substance and alcohol abuse.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

As I showed in my 2004 book The Gene Illusion , twin research was initiated by Francis Galton in the 19 th century. I argue instead that behavioral and psychiatric twin studies have yielded mainly genetic mis information that helps justify political policies, actions, and worldviews antithetical to progressives and the left.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The final phase involves direct discussion of termination, reviewing improvement, consolidating gains, and anticipating future problems (Markowitz & Weissman, 2004). The middle phase comprises the main work of resolving the interpersonal problem with the expected result of reducing symptoms. Am J Psychiatry, 172 (5), 430-440.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2004, the evidence that pretty well the entire pediatric antidepressant literature was fake, with GSK sued for fraud, caused Cochrane problems. Since 2004, they have been telling us to report adverse effects to the FDA and not to them. We saw regulators in a realistic light and did not think bureaucrats could keep us safe.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

After being reported to the police in 2004 by a patient, Nassar gave a convincing PowerPoint presentation to the police and was cleared of any wrongdoing. Former USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar used his position as a medical expert, claiming that his abusive practices were evidence-based medical treatment.

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Mad in America

MAY 15, 2025

H alloween, 2004 was an actual nightmare for our family. After an evening of trick-or-treating along Newtown, Connecticut’s festive Main Street, we got into the car for a short ride home. Though exhausted, we heeded the request of our three children to make one last stop at our neighbors spookily decorated house.

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Mad in America

MAY 16, 2025

I have shown the usage data for people up to 24 years of age, 7 which is a highly relevant age group because the FDA issued a black box warning in 2004, updated in 2006, about the increased suicide risk of depression drugs in this age group.

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Mad in America

JULY 7, 2025

2 FDA’s 2004 black box warning was not about a “possible” increased risk of suicidality in young adults. Here it is, but see also my additional points after the references: The Lancet did not really weigh benefits and harms. 1 The effect of SSRIs on depression is far below the least clinically relevant effect.

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