ADDitude

APRIL 25, 2025

Finally, we cant ignore the fact that many Black women dont seek care due to a well-founded mistrust of the healthcare system. ADHD often underlies the anxiety, depression, and substance use problems that bring women in contact with the mental healthcare system. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1306194. link] 4 Epperson, C.N., Pittman, B.,

Healthcare

Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In 2017, a lovely doctor friend set up a movement called, Permitted to Pause encouraging doctors, nurses and healthcare workers to find and share ways of maintaining balance in their caring profession. Thats 4 healthcare workers every week. To be clear, I am acutely aware that it takes a certain kind of person to become a doctor.

Healthcare

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

This hunt for medical confirmation tends to be accompanied by a consumerist perspective on healthcare which sees the acquisition of the desired diagnosis as a right, not an expert opinion that may or may not be deemed applicable in a given case. The consequences for assessment and therapy were described in Part 3. London: Allen Lane.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2012:April. Antipsychotic prescribing patterns in children and adolescents attending Australian general practice in 2011 and 2017. Comparative effectiveness review No. Prepared by McMaster University Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. HHSA 290 2007 10060 I.)

Neurotransmitters and mental health

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

2011 Jul;15(5):403-11. Treatment recommendations for healthcare providers. PMID : 20829149; PMCID: PMC3002184. 15 Howard AL, Robinson M, Smith GJ, Ambrosini GL, Piek JP, Oddy WH. ADHD is associated with a “Western” dietary pattern in adolescents. J Atten Disord. doi: 10.1177/1087054710365990. Epub 2010 Jul 14.

Eating disorders

Mad in America

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Hamrick secretly copied documents, and GSK was fined $3 billion in 2011 for paying kickbacks to doctors and for illegal marketing of several drugs, also to children. You are attacking a religion and violating one of the most sacred taboos in healthcare.

Healthcare

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But across the country, the towering influence of corporate culture—mass production, mass marketing, mass consumerism, and profit-driven healthcare—has eroded our Main Street America culture and negatively impacted many aspects of our society, including consumer behaviors and the drugs we purchase at our doctors’ recommendation.

Pharmaceuticals

Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Businesses and healthcare companies actively discriminate against mental illness despite parity legislation. 2011 Mar;17(2):82-4. In the case of undocumented immigrants, they are triply stigmatized as criminals , mentally ill , and invaders of the country when there is no evidence for it. 2023 Dec 11;1(1):AIcs2300066. 6: Bithell C.

Healthcare

Mad in America

MAY 16, 2025

In 2011, I began to warn strongly against the increased suicide risk of depression pills in children and adolescents after Lundbecks CEO in a radio broadcast had claimed that the pills protect against suicide. Whistleblower in healthcare. References 1 Gtzsche PC. Is psychiatry a crime against humanity? 2 Gtzsche PC. 3 Whitaker R.

Aging and mental health