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America’s Unhealthy Relationship with Antidepressants

Mad in America

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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Can Men Get Postpartum Depression? Studies Say Yes.

Solara Mental Health

This lowered testosterone can, in turn, lower serotonin levels and other neurotransmitters that cause symptoms of depression. Eat well eating nutritious foods can help maintain your mental health. Exercise getting your blood flowing and heart beating can increase levels of happy neurotransmitters in your brain.

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Testosterone and ADHD in Men: Is There a Link?

ADDitude

It plays a key role in modulating neurotransmitters, increasing dopamine and serotonin, which leads to elevated mood and focus. While testosterone levels fluctuate slightly throughout the course of the day, their levels remain stable from the end of adolescence until roughly age 40.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

Mad in America

668 A WHO study of 640 depressed patients found that those treated with medication had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill than those who weren’t treated at the end of one year. 119:24 Whitaker also mentioned the MTA trial ( see Chapter 9, Part Two ).

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Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?

Mad in America

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).