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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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” Although sexual dysfunction is labeled as a “side effect”, numerous patients report issues far persisting withdrawal. That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold

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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

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Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. Of course, psychiatrists rarely say the quiet parts out loud; their status as pharmaceutical Americans could come into jeopardy if they did.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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In 2017, 29 suicide prevention experts from 17 countries published a report with the authoritative title, Evidence-based national suicide prevention taskforce in Europe: A consensus position paper, [7] which quoted a “systematic review” conducted by 18 experts. to publish a criticism of the report. [8] This is also typical.

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Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek

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The concept has been slow to catch on, however; about 8% of companies in Japan allow employees to take three or more days off per week, while 7% give their workers the legally mandated one day off, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Long hours are the norm. Fast Retailing Co., and electronics companies Ricoh Co.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! What Healy found, however, was that in 34 submitted Phase 1 studies 25% reported a significant agitation, nervousness/akathisia rate !

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

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Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, her research addresses the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships. I continue to do these studies beating on this drum that self-reporting conflicts of interest doesn’t work. Cosgrove: Yes. Piper: Thank you.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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Psychedelics: While still controversial due to a welter of legal, cultural, and safety concerns, it now seems unavoidable that psychedelics will be part of the mental health care of the future. Even as legalization proceeds apace across the country, ayahuasca circles and similar events can already be found in many communities.