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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

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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. I developed and actively used The Grid for a period of about five years (2008 to 2012). I was told I would be on psychiatric medications for the rest of my life.

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Stop Using Antidepressants Except for “the Most Severe Depression,” Experts Say

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For instance, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008 examined both published and unpublished studies of antidepressant efficacy. And even all these negative findings and warnings can be considered optimistic because of publication bias— negative studies are much less likely to be published.

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The Troubled-Teen Industry Offers Trauma, Not Therapy

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In a 2008 congressional hearing, a parent described how her child was subjected to attack therapy — brutal emotional assaults and public humiliation aimed at breaking down problematic personalities at the school, which was shut down in 2011 after a lawsuit helped bankrupt it.

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Phenotypic diversity from dogs to diseases

Real Psychiatry

2008 Jan;82(1):10-8. 2008 Apr 24;9(4):215. doi: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-4-215. Epub 2022 Jun 29. PMID: 35768506; PMCID: PMC9279150. 3: Spady TC, Ostrander EA. Canine behavioral genetics: pointing out the phenotypes and herding up the genes. Am J Hum Genet. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2007.12.001. 2007.12.001. 4: Parker HG. Mamm Genome.

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Study: Vitamin D Insufficiency Worsens Sleep Problems in Children with ADHD

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Vitamin D levels in children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a meta-analysis. <em> <em> Attention deficit hyperactivity Disord. </em> </em> [link] 3 Sung, V., Hiscock, H., Sciberras, E., Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. link] 4 Hvolby A.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

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Moncrieff, 2008. Information produced by professional bodies and charitable groups also promotes this view and it is reported by the media as if it were established fact. This is how psychiatric knowledge has come to be distorted by commercial interests. 257) In the book Merchants of Doubt , historians of science Noami Oreskes and Erik M.

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Bad Science Revisited: “The Bell Curve” Turns 30

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Based on 1948-era IQ tests, in 2008 Flynn calculated that U.S. Moral philosopher and IQ researcher James Flynn called the world’s attention to the fact that, due to these gains, IQ test creators periodically revise their tests to make them more difficult. They do so to maintain a mean score of 100 and a bell-shaped score distribution.

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