Lexapro for Children: Drug With No Meaningful Benefit and Increased Suicidality Gets FDA Approval

Response and remission rates were the same in the drug versus placebo groups, and Lexapro increased suicidality sixfold.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/lexapro-for-children-drug-with-no-meaningful-benefit-and-increased-suicidality-gets-fda-approval/

Psychosis Patients Prioritize Non-Psychosis Issues in Therapy

In therapy for psychosis, most patients prioritize non-psychosis issues; over 20% didn’t mention psychosis at all.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/psychosis-patients-prioritize-non-psychosis-issues-in-therapy-study-finds/

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Thirteen) – Mad In America

Peter Gøtzsche discusses how network meta-analyses spin the data on antidepressants, especially when financed by pharma.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/critical-psychiatry-textbook-chapter-8-part-thirteen/

So Long, Psych Meds: Escaping the Medication Maze – Mad In America

So glad I left the psychiatric matrix , 2006

So glad folks are figuring this out

There was a time when I could think of nothing else but pills and prescriptions, pain and panic. Psychiatry shrank my world. Psychiatry shrank my world. There was a time when I could think of nothing else but pills and prescriptions, pain and panic.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/so-long-psych-meds-escaping-medication-maze/

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Eleven) – Mad In America

My 1st RX was lithium, a heavy metal.. I’m allergic, and it ruined my health , real quick.. the Dr didn’t acknowledge this toxicity and the horrid results . Partner did nothing to assist me in any way..

Peter Gøtzsche discusses the harmful effects of lithium and anti-epileptic drugs used for bipolar disorder.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/critical-psychiatry-textbook-chapter-8-part-eleven/

Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, and Benzos All Increase Suicide

These drugs are lethal, altering physical health, relationships , all that is natural and normal, often missing the trauma, the abuse, the family dynamics , placing all blame on the individual who is the patient, consumer , target .

In a study of people with borderline personality disorder, only ADHD stimulants were associated with a decrease in suicide.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/antidepressants-antipsychotics-and-benzos-all-increase-suicide-attempts-in-new-study/

Chemical imbalance lies

“The actual truth about chemical imbalance is that it’s an actual lie. Nobody has yet measured, demonstrated or created a test to show that somebody has a chemical imbalance in their brain. Period. So you have to ask the classic Roman question, legal question, Cui Bono? Who benefits? The people who make the diagnosis.” — Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry

Psychiatry Killed Tuva Andersson, Whose Problem Was Anxiety – Mad In America

Oh yes , psychiatrist don’t speak of hope, once you’re on their drugs , you’re hooked , and you’ll always need/require their drugs .

I managed to extract myself from their evil addictions and no science based diagnoses.

During the last year of Tuva’s life, her psychiatrists took away her hope of ever leaving psychiatry and becoming better.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/tuva-andersson/

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Ten) – Mad In America

They are reading my stuff lol

And so correct about the Lithium .

Kudos Mad in America 👍

Peter Gøtzsche discusses the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, including in children, and the lack of evidence for any benefit from lithium.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/07/critical-psychiatry-textbook-chapter-8-part-ten/

Researchers investigate suicide attempts and psychotropic drugs

Patients who used psychotropic drugs in suicide attempts were more likely to have had prescriptions for them
— Read on news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/patients-who-used-psychotropic-drugs-in-suicide-attempts-were-more-likely-to-have-had-prescriptions-for-them