NAMI

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In 2010, a therapist suspected I may have ADHD. Over the next 13 years, I cycled through different doctors and different diagnoses (depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder II), none of which fully explained my struggles. My response? Thats not something Black women have.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

In a 2010 paper , Pigott and colleagues also made sense of the graphic representing the one-year results. Mad in Americas review of Pigotts 2010 paper was titled: “The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up. As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2024

Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In research circles, he’s known as the founder and executive director of the controversial Stanley Medical Research Institute, which has spent more than $550 million on biological research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder over the past few decades.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist. Greenstone tells us: “Dr.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

When Whitaker wrote his book, Anatomy of an Epidemic : Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America , first published in 2010, 5 he started out with a medical puzzle. 5 Whitaker is a careful researcher and his book is highly convincing.

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

24 In the UK, psychosis pill prescriptions increased by 5% per year on average and depression pills by 10%, from 1998 to 2010. Depressive and bipolar disorders: patients attitudes and beliefs towards depression and antidepressants. Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 2010 Oct-Dec;19:333-47. and 3.20, respectively. 3 Whitaker R.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 145