MGH Center for Women's Mental Health
JUNE 26, 2025
Validated instruments such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) can identify anxiety symptoms; however, screening can be supplemented with anxiety-specific screening instruments , such as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) and the Perinatal Anxiety Screening Scale (PASS).
Mad in America
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. meprobamate) as well. With such frequent and severe adverse TD-inducing side effects, how can one justify the use of these medications?
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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. This process of medicalisation is now all too often a default response to distress and happens on a large scale.
Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
He went to his GP, who diagnosed him with “anxiety disorder” on top of his bipolar diagnosis and prescribed Xanax. A few months later, I was glad we had left this psychiatrist, because he had even falsely written in Matt’s records that I had a history of anxiety disorder. Imagine that?!
Mad in America
MARCH 15, 2025
This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray).
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.
Mad in America
MAY 15, 2025
H alloween, 2004 was an actual nightmare for our family. The same has happened with other words that have been de-closeted, such as depression, anxiety, and OCD. After an evening of trick-or-treating along Newtown, Connecticut’s festive Main Street, we got into the car for a short ride home.
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