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False Information in UK Package Inserts for Antidepressants About a Chemical Imbalance

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As an example, Danish psychiatry professor Poul Videbech said in 2013 that advising people to stop taking their antidepressant was like advising patients with diabetes to drop their insulin. The MHRAs stance is very harmful, as it contributes to hooking the patients on depression drugs for many years, sometimes even for life.

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America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants

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As Moncrieff and colleagues write, in a 2013 article discussing the psychoactive effects of psychiatric medication: Only when we appreciate the nature of psychiatric drugs as psychoactive substances can we start to accumulate the knowledge necessary to enable prescribers and consumers to use these drugs safely and effectively.

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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

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Even though I had an A average in college at Colorado State University, I dropped out of CSU in 2013, and having tried over 20 different antidepressants and mood stabilizers since 2011, ECT was recommended to me. I was told that only temporary, minor memory loss was possible, in rare cases, before starting ECT in 2013.

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

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Kupfer, 2013) Psychiatrist Professor Joanna Moncrieff explains how the chemical imbalance idea remains prevalent anyway simply because of how often it is put out there, and is often even echoed by others: The message is repeated on numerous company websites, despite the fact that it cannot be clearly substantiated with scientific evidence.

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“Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown

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”’ Article → Back to Around the Web The post “Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown appeared first on Mad In America.

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Can We Talk About Spirituality? The Medicalization of Transpersonal Experiences

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The Mad Studies perspective is a relatively new field that wants to take human experiences seriously and include those with lived experience in research and knowledge (Rodéhn, 2020; Beredsford, 2013). And this also includes transpersonal experiences (Tenney, 2022). References Beresford, P. In LeFrancois, B., Canada Scholars Press Inc.

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Recovery from Psychosis in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Is Possible

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T his is the story of some of the delusions I experienced for a period of ten years starting in 2013, my spontaneous recovery after a substantial period of time, and some reflections on the psychosis and the recovery. The journey was a personal one and the reflections are also personal.