6 Good Things That Happened When I Stopped Believing in ‘Mental Health’
By Charlotte Beale
In my late twenties, I had a series of crises. I realised I was far unhappier than I had been at seventeen, when I had first sought treatment. The pursuit of mental health had made me mad.
A pseudoscientific model of thought, bankrupt ethically, intellectually and philosophically, stole twelve years of my life. By some measures, I am lucky to have escaped it when I did..
Race and Gender are subject to this
More projection and blame-shame from psychiatry. It’s the RX and it’s been proven by data .
Xyprexa blows up the pancreas often in to diabetes! Enormous weight gain and then being told to diet .
I read this in regard to those folks who were receiving assistance who could ill afford a decent diet which made loosing weight beyond challenge .
www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/a-heavy-burden-bipolar-disorder-and-obesity
The Serotonin Zombie: Authors of New Study Try to Breathe New Life into the Dead
However, the results of the study actually support the conclusion that low serotonin is not a cause of depression.
The researchers studied three questions:
1. They asked whether people with depression had lower serotonin than healthy controls at baseline—and found that they did not.
2. They asked whether serotonin levels correlate with severity of depression—and found that they did not.
3. Finally, they asked whether people with depression dosed with an amphetamine would have less change in serotonin than people without depression dosed with an amphetamine—and here they found a statistically significant effect. But their own data shows that 10 of the 11 people with depression overlapped with healthy controls—the result was driven by one outlier.
Even The Guardian has somehow spun this into “clear evidence” that depression and serotonin are related.
MIA Podcast Interview
Anders Sørensen – Tackling Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Through Research and in Practice
Anders is a Danish clinical psychologist with a special interest in psychiatric drug withdrawal. He has undertaken research which assesses the state of guidance on psychiatric drug withdrawal. He has also paid close attention to tapering methods with the aim of identifying approaches which might make withdrawal more tolerable for people.
In addition to his research work, Anders utilizes psychotherapy in his private practice when helping people to come off the drugs and we’ll get to talk about some of that in this interview.
www.madinamerica.com/2022/11/anders-sorensen-tackling-psychiatric-drug-withdrawal-research-practice/
A summarized collection and critical assessment of the ongoing research that exposes the sickening effects of capitalism on mental health was recently published as a chapter in the Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry by epidemiologists Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot and Seth Prins.
Psychiatry and social sciences’ focus on individual factors has failed to account for the role of structures and systems – such as capitalism – in developing mental illness and the disparities in psychological forms of suffering.
The authors write:
“What explains these trends and inequities? While this question has been a primary concern of quantitative social science, the resulting answers have not always engaged directly with capitalism—a socio-economic system that not only structures societal distributions of health-affecting resources and power but also modulates our experiences of reality and the production of knowledge within it. Instead, mental health researchers have focused on the roles of individual-level factors like ‘risk behaviors’ or socio-economic status. Moreover, capitalism’s ubiquity makes it difficult to isolate pathways through which it affects any single outcome like mental health.”
www.madinamerica.com/2022/11/capitalism-whats-destroying-collective-mental-health/
Between 1987 and 2007, the number of people receiving treatment for depression in the United States increased fourfold (and has continued to rise more gradually since). However, the prevalence of depression either stayed the same—or may have even increased—during that time. Researchers call this the “treatment-prevalence paradox” (TPP).
* Browse through a DSM for all the codes that allow billing to insurance and you’ll find every human emotion , every sickness , every disease and you can bet the pharmacy has an antidepressant for that particular issue .
No science. Read the facts of how efficiently testing is done or not.
Ready of the kin ship between FDA who usually rewards the best show , not the best product.
The horrific loss of life and families erased as mine was began in 1987 with the huge push to diagnosis bipolar which presented in varied ways .
Their eyes are wide shut about these side effects and society accepted , the law embraced the all knowing wizards of Pharma and suicide was normalized by many especially 80’s
Ignoring thus supporting abuse Knowing thus supporting the trauma .
For these reasons and more , having personally exited that matrix , I’m aware there are many like I was ; induced into a state of Ill health and toxic mind and endured 5 years of neglect , abandonment , having no interest in my life , before leaving for another 20 year period aligned with his twin .
Learning nothing , his shadow is depressive , and I’m eager to complete business and no contact ever .
Coming to and regaining , renewing my essence was hellish in many respects but invaluable to my healing process .
Blessings& Peace ❤️☮️
Dona Luna 🐸
Now, in a new study, researchers review the seven possible explanations for this—and the evidence for and against each one. The study was led by Johan Ormel at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and published in Clinical Psychology Review.
Ormel and his co-authors explain:
“The increased availability of effective treatments should shorten depressive episodes, reduce relapses, and curtail recurrences. Combined, these treatment advances unequivocally should result in lower point-prevalence estimates of depression. Have these reductions occurred? The empirical answer clearly is NO.”
Despite More Treatments for Depression, Prevalence Doesn’t Decrease—Why?
www.madinamerica.com/2022/10/treatment-depression-increased/
In my case , as in many , it was Domestic Abuse : Axis l – Marital Problems and Trauma which was over looked , and treated with toxic to me RX which induced what he termed Bipolar l
A total and complete sham
Between 1987 and 2007, the number of people receiving treatment for depression in the United States increased fourfold (and has continued to rise more gradually since). However, the prevalence of depression either stayed the same—or may have even increased—during that time. Researchers call this the “treatment-prevalence paradox” (TPP).
Now, in a new study, researchers review the seven possible explanations for this—and the evidence for and against each one. The study was led by Johan Ormel at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and published in Clinical Psychology Review.
Ormel and his co-authors explain:
“The increased availability of effective treatments should shorten depressive episodes, reduce relapses, and curtail recurrences. Combined, these treatment advances unequivocally should result in lower point-prevalence estimates of depression. Have these reductions occurred? The empirical answer clearly is NO.”
Despite More Treatments for Depression, Prevalence Doesn’t Decrease—Why?
www.madinamerica.com/2022/10/treatment-depression-increased/
A new study published in Issues of Mental Health Nursing finds that influential psychiatric nursing textbooks frame mental health nursing as a purely biomedical practice, failing to convey the significant debates in the field over psychological and social factors.
The study used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), a method used to analyze how language is used in texts to deploy and reinforce power relations and legitimacy, to demonstrate how these texts legitimate psychiatric discourse.
Through presenting the subjectivity of mental health professionals as objective scientific facts, conveying urgency and necessity for psychiatric intervention, and fusing with other scientific and medical disciplines to lend credibility to psychiatry, such discourse can lead to taking this medicalization of professional judgment for granted and devaluing the subjectivity of patients being assessed.
“Mental health discourse has been the site of a lively and contentious transdisciplinary debate, particularly concerning its conceptualization as a concept and subsequent understandings of lived experience in the context of mental health and illness,” the study authors, led by Simon Adam at York University, write.
“Correspondingly, this article examines the current state of mental health discourse in nursing education by focusing on the undergraduate pedagogy of the mental health nursing assessment in Canada.”
Nursing Textbooks Treat Medicalization of Mental Health as Objective Fact
www.madinamerica.com/2022/10/nursing-textbooks-treat-medicalization-mental-health-objective-fact/
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