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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. medical schools. Worldwide, there are parallels to U.S.

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“The New York Times Reruns Familiar ADHD Tropes”

ADDitude

April 16, 2025 Every few years, the ADHD community must endure another skeptic an author, a journalist, a contrarian mental health provider, quite frequently a chiropractor recycling claims like “ADHD is overdiagnosed,” “stimulants dont work,” or, most remarkably in one case, “ADHD does not exist.”

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Setting the Record Straight About ADHD and Its Treatments

ADDitude

April 16, 2025 Since its publication last Sunday, The New York Times Magazine article “Have We Been Thinking About ADHD All Wrong?” To be clear, identifiable biomarkers do not yet exist for many psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative disorders. Or bipolar disorder?” Or anxiety?