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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. It showed up in the literature for the first time in 1974, when a small number of psychiatrists published some clinical observations of a “therapy resistant depression.”

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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).