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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

A more complete reading reveals that the relationship between 5-HT antagonism and antidepressant effects was understood even then to be more hypothetical than definitive, and activation of serotonin receptors was not necessarily the mechanism that alleviates depression. reporting receiving treatment for depression in 2023.The

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2025 Staffing Trends in the Healthcare Industry

PsychStaffing Blog

As a leader in the healthcare recruitment industry , PsychStaffing is committed to supporting the highest quality mental health care in the communities we serve. Healthcare professionals are cautious of its use in direct patient care, but its definitely a trend in recruiting that has staying power.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

Mad in America

A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.

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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

Mad in America

The author, Erik Rudi, voluntarily relinquishes the authority of being a “psychologist” and “healthcare professional.” I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. If you struggle mentally, it does not mean that you are ill.

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Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?

Mad in America

Both left and right-wing critiques start from the notion that we are indeed over-medicalising ever more domains of emotional and mental life, arbitrarily expanding the definition of ‘mental disorder’ to capture experiences that weren’t previously considered in medical terms.

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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction

Mad in America

The diagnostic guidelines we follow are not scripture, and they are definitely not based on unquestionable science. The much-envied Western healthcare system, with capitalism running through its veins, epitomizes this prioritization. The patients themselves will see themselves in a different light and behave accordingly.

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Phenotypic diversity from dogs to diseases

Real Psychiatry

Any physician knows that no two persons with the same diagnosis are identical and yet there are scores of critics, administrators, politicians, and healthcare companies operating under that illusion. Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the 1998 US/Japan Conference. All humans are still Homo sapiens.