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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

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In recent years, there has been a growing awareness surrounding the adverse long-term effects of antidepressants, particularly concerning treatment-emergent sexual dysfunction (TESD). at the time of the study, indicating affiliations with pharmaceutical companies that manufacture antidepressants, including those under investigation.

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How the Troubled Teen Industry Turns Pain Into Profit

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The troubled teen industry (TTI) is a network of therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness camps, and religious reform programs that claim to treat mental health struggles in teens. The TTI uses psychological persuasion tactics to capitalize on the guilt parents feel when their children face mental health challenges.

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Elizabeth Loftus, False Memories and the Search for My True Self

Mad in America

To be clear: we cannot exist as a society without law, research, medicine, science, and mental health care. The gravitas of this was, of course, completely unknown to my seventeen-year-old self when I entered my therapists office in 1991 and sat down, speaking hesitantly to her about my life and the recent breakdown.