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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Protecting the False Narrative About Antidepressants

Mad in America

The suppliers of escitalopram (Lundbeck) and imipramine (AFT Pharmaceuticals) refused to comply. 2 FDA’s 2004 black box warning was not about a “possible” increased risk of suicidality in young adults. 5 New WHO guidance calls for urgent transformation of mental health policies. What should we do? WHO 2025; Mar 25.