Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Moreover, in stark contrast to the discoveries by medical researchers of biological causation for many physical illnesses, psychiatric researchers have failed to find physiological or genetic causation for the most diagnosed mental disorders—the anxiety disorders and depression—negating the rationale for the prescription of these drugs.

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Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Anxiety disorders 145

Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

It is now common knowledge that there is no reliable biological test, or biomarker, for any of the hundreds of disorders in the DSM-5. However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics.

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Autism spectrum 125

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Perhaps if I took a different prescription or combination of prescriptions, my brain would magically adjust and rid me of my alleged ‘chemical imbalance’. I had been diagnosed with numerous ‘disorders’ because I had a traumatic childhood. Throughout the decades of consuming psychiatric medications, my mind and body slowly deteriorated.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Autism spectrum Anxiety disorders 145