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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

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But the person prescribing them (or manufacturing them) has a different problem to solve: explaining why I should still trust them to guide me to wellness. The eighties and nineties were a depression-treatment renaissance. Her depression was treatment resistant but it wasn’t Justine resistant. billion worldwide.

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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Establishment psychiatry has shown this same unscientific thinking in its manufacturing of other biological theories of mental illness. Psychiatry has offered various chemical imbalanceor monoamine imbalance theories for depression. news story , I Lost Everything’: Inside Britain’s ‘Worrying’ Ketamine Problem).

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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In addition, since STAR*D’s publication, the prescription of these drugs is generating and exacerbating depression more than alleviating it. We showed how STAR*D’s authors had manipulated the data to manufacture fraudulent results. In 2010, I was one of the authors of a published critique of the STAR*D study’s reported findings.