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Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”

Mad in America

I had already gained the insight that my original emotional crisis back in1994, was not in fact the beginning of what was later diagnosed as severe treatment resistant depression, but a completely understandable reaction to the then current circumstances and my childhood trauma. At the end of 2001, I had a temporary reprieve.

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Mad in America

I was given psychotherapy all through this time, but the therapists were not impressed by my accounts of childhood trauma. By 2016, I had seriously started to doubt that suffering awful side effects from taking off-licence high doses of two antidepressants was worth my while.