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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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Antidepressants, The New York Times informed its readers in 1990 , “work by restoring the balance of neurotransmitter activity in the brain, correcting an abnormal excess or inhibition of the electrochemical signals that control mood, thoughts, appetite, pain and other sensations.” psychiatrists.

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Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?

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2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Depression and antidepressants in Australia and beyond: a critical public health analysis (PhD thesis).

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Testosterone and ADHD in Men: Is There a Link?

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It plays a key role in modulating neurotransmitters, increasing dopamine and serotonin, which leads to elevated mood and focus. Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions. J Health Soc Behav. J Adolesc Health.

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

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Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Establishment psychiatry has shown this same unscientific thinking in its manufacturing of other biological theories of mental illness.