MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

JUNE 26, 2025

2004 Sep;65(9):1236-41. Misri S, Reebye P, Corral M, Milis L. The use of paroxetine and cognitive-behavioral therapy in postpartum depression and anxiety: a randomized controlled trial. J Clin Psychiatry. Misri S, Swift E, Abizadeh J, Shankar R.

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Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. That lengthiest hospitalization occurred just prior to the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004, which killed 230,000 people. Around the 2016 hospitalization my diagnosis was elevated to schizoaffective disorder and I was placed on everyday Zyprexa.

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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

JULY 13, 2024

But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. 2004) and Diamond et al. Ghaemi thinks glutamate is the culprit in schizophrenia, however, which is unaffected by antipsychotics ( Ghaemi, 2022 ).

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

There are many patients who have been diagnosed with so-called serious mental illness (such as so-called schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) who ultimately reject psychiatric treatment including psychiatric drugs, and become highly functioning.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

The psychiatrist called me the next day and announced that Matt had “bipolar disorder” as if this were a “new” diagnosis — and had clearly not seen Matt’s medical records. Thankfully, the owner of the office, a renowned bipolar expert, said he could take Matt. This led to the symptoms that were diagnosed as bipolar disorder.

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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).

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