How Big Pharma Monetized Depression
From UnHerd: We have organized our thinking, and care, around a narrative of medical progress that isn’t to be found in the scientific literature.
A Review of Alice Miller’s ‘The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Cruel...
From alice-miller.com/Stephen Khamsi, PhD: For thousands of years, the Fourth Commandment - along with our personal denial of early maltreatment - has led us toward repression, emotional detachment, illness and suicide.
‘Psychology Is’ Podcast: The Scientific Emptiness of Psychiatry, With Dr. David Cohen
From Psychology Is: The field is comprised of psychiatrists who primarily act as drug prescribers and justify their practices on the basis of "silly theories that are continually refuted," said the UCLA professor.
Failing to Report Child Sex Abuse Should Be Made Illegal: Major British Inquiry
From the BBC: "We heard time and time again how allegations of abuse were ignored, victims were blamed and institutions prioritised their reputations over the protection of children," said inquiry chairwoman Prof. Alexis Jay.
Even With Troubled Histories, Psych Hospitals Face Few Sanctions
From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Parents may never know that the facility treating their child has had serious patient care issues.
Now Doctors Want to Screen EVERY American Child Over Age of Eight for Anxiety
From the Daily Mail: Experts said the new recommendations could spur a surge in the use of anti-anxiety medications, which, some fear, are already at the center of a budding addiction crisis in the US.
Can You Punish a Child’s Mental Health Problems Away?
From The New York Times: Future generations will look back on the tactics used in the troubled teen industry and ask: How did we allow these practices to pass off as mental health treatment for so long?
What I Wish I Had Known Before I Stopped Taking Antidepressants, and Before I...
From the Washington Examiner: I learned the hard way that doctors can be remarkably casual about things patients can’t afford to be when it comes to putting people on, and taking them off, antidepressants.
The Social Side of Health: How Reducing Inequality Can Improve Health Outcomes for Americans
From Pulte Institute for Global Development: "We treat despair, addiction, obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease at the molecular level with all these drugs sold by all these big pharma companies," says neuroscientist Peter Sterling, but "it's not bringing us health."
Women More Likely to Be Prescribed Anti-Anxiety Drugs ‘Harder to Come Off Than Heroin’
From The Independent: "I would never take [benzodiazepines] again," said Fiona French, who took them for several decades. "Any drug that can cause that degree of intolerable suffering is a bad drug."
The Hidden Epidemic of Sexual Dysfunction Experts Are Blaming on SSRI Antidepressants
From The Daily Mail: Patients on antidepressants are not being warned of the risk that the pills could permanently ruin their sex lives, experts say.
Routine Anxiety Screenings Will Cause Overdiagnosis, Overprescription, Psychologist Warns
From Fox News: "You can’t just carve the world into 'disorders' and think you’re doing an adequate job of determining someone’s mental health needs," said UCSF professor Dr. Jonathan Shedler.
Dr. Gabor Maté on the Truth About ADHD and Anxiety
From The Joe Rogan Experience: "The so-called experts say that ADHD is 'the most heritable mental illness there is,'" says renowned physician Gabor Maté. "But I say, it's neither an illness, nor is it heritable."
Our Addiction to Control Is Enslaving Us
From Uplift: Our attempts to control both ourselves and the world around us lead to a kind of slavery, where we are both the slave and the slavemaster at the same time.
I Went Undercover to Expose Abuse at a Mental Health ‘Hospital’
From the BBC: 'Patients' are being locked away, abused, and neglected in the formative years of their lives, as one of the UK's biggest mental health 'hospitals' actually makes them worse.
‘Toxic Culture’ of Abuse at Mental Health ‘Hospital’ Revealed by BBC Secret Filming
From the BBC: Humiliated, abused and isolated for weeks - patients are being harmed due to a 'toxic culture' at one of the UK's biggest mental health 'hospitals.'
‘People Have the Ability to Heal and to Let Go. Healers Help You With...
From the Los Angeles Times: "From an Indigenous point of view, everything is a teacher, a spirit, if you will. So we ask what the so-called depression or anxiety tells us and where is it coming from." ~ Jerry Tello
Defund Social Workers: Cops by Another Name
From The New Republic: If you measure in terms of the power to coerce, surveil, and inflict lasting harm, social workers are, thanks to the nature of the job, cops by another name.
‘Speaking Grief’ Documentary Asks, ‘What if We Got Better at Grief?’
From WPSU Creative Services: What would happen if we could speak the truth about our pain, and hear the truth about other people's pain? What if we got better at grief?
The Alternative to Police That Is Proven to Reduce Violence
From Mother Jones: “The lived experience cannot be understated” as a key part of a successful crisis response team, says a San Francisco Department of Public Health representative.
Antidepressants Work Better Than Sugar Pills Only 15 Percent of the Time
From Newsweek: Evidence is mounting that doctors are vastly overprescribing SSRIs, and clinicians are calling for a new approach to depression that involves curtailing their use.
Out-of-Touch U.S. Task Force Recommends Routine Anxiety Screening in Adults
From The Washington Post: "If primary care providers are asked to screen for one more thing, we are going to break without more resources," said a nurse practitioner in Northern California.
Doctors Stopped Believing in the ‘Chemical Imbalance’ Theory. But They Didn’t Tell Us.
From National Post: Many think too little serotonin causes depression and antidepressants can correct that imbalance. But psychiatrists stopped believing that theory long ago.
Deadline for Congress to Reauthorize FDA’s Drug Industry Funding Is Sept. 30
From The New York Times: The pharmaceutical industry finances about 75 percent of the FDA's drug division through its "user fee" program, which essentially means drug companies regulate themselves.
Dr. Caroline Leaf Podcast With Robert Whitaker: The Great Psychiatry Fraud
From Dr. Caroline Leaf: "The message I’d like to give to people," says Whitaker, "is that if we can actually have an honest paradigm, we can hope again, and we can find solutions again, and we can build better environments."
