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Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An Interview With Giovanni Fava

Mad in America

One thing is that if you give an antidepressant, for instance, to a young woman who’s suffering from an anxiety disorder and never had a history of bipolar disorder, then she might become hypomanic or manic. Then I put together this with a phenomena related to antidepressants that had been reported in the literature.

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Treating the Hidden Complexities of ADHD

ADDitude

A staggering three-quarters of adults with ADHD have at least one coexisting condition like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), substance use disorder, or an eating disorder. link] 3 Coughlin, C. Mulqueen, J. Ferracioli-Oda, E., Stuckelman, Z. D., & Bloch, M.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles. As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased.

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How To Get Someone Into Rehab for Addiction Treatment

Clear Behavioral Health

Addiction quite often coexists alongside mental disorders like depression , anxiety , bipolar disorder , or other mental health conditions and drugs become a way for the person to quiet their thoughts [2]. Many rehabs treat co-occurring disorders, recognizing that they come in pairs. Dont give up. 2025, January 8).

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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention

Mad in America

But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. “ Methods that ignore information from double-zero studies or use continuity corrections should no longer be used ” ( Kuss, 2015).

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

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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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

Mad in America

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.