Mad in America

JUNE 20, 2024

But the person prescribing them (or manufacturing them) has a different problem to solve: explaining why I should still trust them to guide me to wellness. The eighties and nineties were a depression-treatment renaissance. Her depression was treatment resistant but it wasn’t Justine resistant. billion worldwide.

Pharmaceuticals 142

Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Construction Depression treatment 142

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

Establishment psychiatry has shown this same unscientific thinking in its manufacturing of other biological theories of mental illness. Psychiatry has offered various chemical imbalanceor monoamine imbalance theories for depression. news story , I Lost Everything’: Inside Britain’s ‘Worrying’ Ketamine Problem).

Neurotransmitters and mental health 132

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A few years ago, one in five US adults reported having ever received a diagnosis of depression. At a cost of 35 million dollars, NIMH’s STAR*D study, which was published in 2006 , is the most extensive and expensive study ever conducted to determine the effectiveness of drug treatment for depression.

Aging and mental health 145

Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manufacturing Anxiety disorders 145