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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

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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. A 2008 paper pulled together 74 studies for the twelve leading antidepressants. billion worldwide.

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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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).