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

MARCH 22, 2025

” Under previous editors, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics became one of the worlds most respected mental health journals, known for its incisive, world-leading critical research that pushed boundaries and improved practice,” Davies said. Indeed, a search of Mad in America turns up 102 references to this journal.

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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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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. government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) , reported that among American adults, serious suicidal thoughts occurred in 6.6%

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Solara Mental Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Esketamine is a form of the dissociative agent ketamine , commonly used as an anesthetic; it works by targeting the neurotransmitter glutamate. Due to these potential risks, the treatment is available only through the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy Program and must be self-administered in certified health care settings.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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. On Whitaker’s Mad in America website there are two more reviews of Insel’s book.

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