Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

You write that you worry about how psychedelics are getting co-opted by pharmaceutical industries. At home there was a constant level of ambient chaos. I saw a lot of distressing things when I was very young and into my 20s. You want to be reborn in each moment. That’s the whole Buddhist philosophy. Tell us more.

Trauma and the brain 123

Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Psychedelic therapy Mental health advocacy 123

Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. More people than ever are using psychiatric drugs, such as antidepressants, and seeking psychiatric diagnoses including depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and autism.

Bipolar disorder 145

Bipolar disorder Pharmaceuticals 145

Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

There are many patients who have been diagnosed with so-called serious mental illness (such as so-called schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) who ultimately reject psychiatric treatment including psychiatric drugs, and become highly functioning. Corruption by pharmaceutical companies.

Trauma and the brain 133

Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Bipolar disorder 133

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

Technology 144

Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 144

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As Whitaker noted, the research literature shows that psychosis pills and depression pills increase the chronicity of the disorders, and the same is true for stimulants, benzodiazepines, and drugs used for bipolar disorder. 650 None of this history is found in Insel’s book or on NIMH’s website.

Bipolar disorder 145

Bipolar disorder Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 145

Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

Number of genes Explained variance (%) Anxiety disorders 200,000 6 0.5 Bipolar disorder 413,000 64 4.6 Depressive disorder 1,154,000 178 1.5-3.2 Regarding mental disorders, pharmaceutical treatments appear better if genetic causes are assumed. Malfunction Number of persons (approx.) ADHD 55,000 12 5.5

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Whitaker found that psychosis pills, depression pills and benzodiazepines worsen long-term outcomes, and that bipolar disorder, which is regularly treated with polypharmacy, runs a much more chronic course than manic depressive disorder—the diagnostic precursor to bipolar—once did. This is mendacious.

Pharmaceuticals 135

Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Bipolar disorder Self-awareness 135

Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

40 Claim: Conspiracy theories abound that the pharmaceutical industry only wants to profit on making people as dependent as possible. Depressive and bipolar disorders: patients attitudes and beliefs towards depression and antidepressants. 2 Claim: The drugs do not have greater side effects than other drugs. 3 Whitaker R.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 144

Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 144

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray). accepting personal or office gifts or corporate donations from industry.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 137

Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals 137

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

Pharmaceuticals 142

Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Aging and mental health Nonprofits 142

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. Golec, J, Vernon, J European Pharmaceutical Price Regulation, Firm Profitability, and R & D Spending Working Paper 12676, National Bureau of Economic Research, Nov 2006.

Healthcare 95

Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 95

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The clinician might regard some treatment options as ill-suited to that particular patient: ketamine, for example, in a patient with bipolar disorder (because research has only just recently been expanded to include bipolar depression). Not the right starting point for creating a good placebo effect.

Pharmaceuticals 134

Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Bipolar disorder Healthcare 134

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. A century ago, Paul Ehrlich, whose research helped create the modern pharmaceutical industry, saw the ideal medicine as a Magic Bullet, a drug that hits a target without causing collateral damage. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts.

Sleep and mental health 141

Sleep and mental health Legal Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 141

Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

Unfortunately, Maloney insists that all mental illness, including bipolar disorder and various neuroses as well as schizophrenia have their origin in bisexual confusion. The psychiatrists in question want to uphold the pharmaceutical hoax based on the idea that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Trauma and the brain 107

Trauma and the brain Hospitality Pharmaceuticals Bipolar disorder 107

Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

What is at stake here with this discussion is the billion-dollar business that the pharmaceutical companies make with their unproven myth that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain that can only be corrected by taking antipsychotic drugs. It is very hard to become well while living in a society that is ill.

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Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Hospitality Bipolar disorder 98