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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

My colleagues and I became the architects of new forms of advertising, ones that expanded the definition of depression, presented the serotonin theory, and even educated physicians and patients about the diagnostic criteria of depression itself , so as to create ever-larger markets for psychiatric drugs.

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Rethinking Mental Health in Ireland: Why Not a Trieste-Style Approach?

Mad in America

Critically, while recovery-oriented language has permeated Irish policy documents, the lived experience of service users frequently suggests a continued emphasis on biomedical interventions over holistic, person-centred care. Equally, education on the link between nutrition and mental health should be integrated into mental health services.

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Is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Considered a Disability? Understanding Legal Rights and Workplace Accommodations in the U.S.

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Understanding how OCD is viewed through legal and employment lenses is crucial for individuals navigating work, education, or disability benefits. Individuals diagnosed with OCD have legal protections in employment, education, and public services. Medical documentation is essential for approval.

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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

Mad in America

Traditionally rooted in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic traditions, such training has been overshadowed by economic pressures, the high cost of postgraduate education, clinical supervision, and personal therapy, as well as lack of diversity in faculty in these institutes. Still, the profession continues to play along in the charade.

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

This 60-year gap likely contributed to the progressive decrease in screening, documenting, and discussing the cause and course of TD with patients. The resulting Impact-TD scale measures the degree of functional impact on 4 categories: social, psychological/psychiatric, physical, vocational/educational/recreational. Psychiatric Times.

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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

Mad in America

Little by little, he and the staff began to work together with these patients and aides as equals in running the place implementing education and work, shared decision-making, with interdependence considered higher than independence. We also documented any other hospitalizations which happened later.

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Two Years Later: My TMS Story, From Gaslighting to Finding My Voice

Mad in America

Then she dismissed everything else as overstimulation, without ever explaining what that meant or documenting the rest of my symptoms, despite me asking her in a follow-up email. The doctor smiled politely but clearly didn’t believe TMS could have caused any of this. She ran some surface-level tests and repeated them until I “passed.”

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