Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2025

Antidepressants are Americas first-line treatment for the most common mental health problems, e.g., depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Given that major depression is the mental illness most commonly associated with suicide, antidepressants should at the very least lessen its risk. That is not so.

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Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

These beliefs have been shaped by NIHs National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and by psychiatrists, whose opinions regarding mental health care are trusted by the public. Put to the test, they were unable to demonstrate that the mental disorders are biological illnesses. A psychiatric textbook (Silverman, C.,

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. A 2013 national survey, issued by the U.S. Psychoactive Drugs: Psychoactive or psychotropic drugs are drugs that affect neurotransmitters.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This ongoing failure can be traced back to the publication of DSM-III in 1980, when American psychiatry adopted a disease model for categorizing and treating mental disorders.

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

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. Joseph Biederman was an example of grandiosity. My Critical Psychiatry Textbook is freely available.

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Solara Mental Health

AUGUST 30, 2021

And both Yoga and meditative practices have shown to increase serotonin a crucial neurotransmitter in regulating mood. Exercise is another great way to stimulate endorphin release, as well as other neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin. That internal monologue you hear all day makes a difference in how you feel.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

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.

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