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No Benefit for Adding Antidepressants to CBT for Depression

For those with severe depression, inpatient CBT was effective but the adding antidepressants did not improve treatment outcomes.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/no-benefit-for-adding-antidepressants-to-cbt-in-severe-depression/

Big Tech CEOs Meet with Psychiatry’s Leaders to Decide the Future of Mental Health – Mad In America

Excuse me , but why does tech industry have any say in mental health ???

The paradox of techno-optimism by embattled tech CEOs and prominent figures of psychiatry at a huge conference on the future of mental health.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/tech-ceos-future-mental-health/

Spoilation: What Becomes of the Forcibly Drugged? – Mad In America

I have been forcibly drugged for over forty years now. The dose of neuroleptics I am forced to take will probably kill me. l have been forcibly drugged for over forty years now. It will probably kill me.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/spoilation-forcibly-drugged/

Driving Our Children into Suicide with Escitalopram and Other Happy Pills – Mad In America

This is a horrific situation, when children are induced into suicide and needs to be evaluated and changes in a system that does much harm.

The Lexapro study is marketing dressed up as science, a flagrant abuse of ethics, deceiving readers at the cost of children’s lives.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/driving-children-suicide-happy-pills/

Family Panel Discussion: Supporting a Child, Teen, or Young Adult in Crisis Tickets, Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

Eventbrite – Mad in America presents Family Panel Discussion: Supporting a Child, Teen, or Young Adult in Crisis – Thursday, August 10, 2023 – Find event and ticket information.
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Prescriber-Patient Power Imbalances Prevent Honest Discussions About Antidepressant Withdrawal

I did not have professional help to end my prescriptions, so I did it on my own.

I have many other Drs suggest I go back to medications as I discussed things , discounting my trauma . Places that did this for a business charged 50 k per month .

A justified release from these , too often toxic meds , within the system that exist is just not going to happen..

I am thrilled that I got it done , realize the damage done , sadly in not having had support .

Daniel J. Dunleavy probes into the power imbalances and social control issues prevalent in managing antidepressant withdrawal.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/prescriber-patient-power-imbalances-prevent-honest-discussions-of-antidepressant-withdrawal/

Research Explores ‘Positive Addiction’ Through Compulsive Prayer Behaviors

Using the work of William Glasser on “positive addiction,” Joyzy Pius Egunjobi examines addiction to prayer and its possible benefits.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/research-explores-positive-addiction-through-compulsive-prayer-behaviors/

Framing Depression as a Functional Signal Rather than a Disease Promotes Hope and Reduces Stigma, Study Finds

A shift in perspective from seeing depression as a disease to recognizing it as a helpful warning sign can promote a healthier understanding and lessen self-stigma, researchers find.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/framing-depression-as-a-functional-signal-rather-than-a-disease-promotes-hope-and-reduces-stigma-study-finds/