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Pete Etchells: Recent attacks on antidepressants simplify a complicated picture about their effectiveness, and people with depression suffer for it
Timothy J Wright's insight:
The truthful answer is that we don't really know how effective antidepressants are. None of this means that antidepressants don't work. It just means that we don't know yet. It's a bit of a clichéd thing to say, but we really do need more research: more robust research that isn't influenced by monetary gains or emotional predispositions towards one outcome or another. Until we get those sorts of studies, inflammatory and ill-informed posts that berate the use of antidepressants, or which casually refer to "SSRI-munching depressives", only serve to stigmatise depression and isolate sufferers. 
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MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health
Timothy J Wright's insight:
The huge increase in Autism coincided with the advent of anti-depressants . This deserves further study.
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Both mental health and mental illness are many-faceted and elusive in nature. No one definition of mental health or illness fits all people or settings. Healthy behavior in one cultural setting...
God seeks abundant life for all people, including people diagnosed with mental illness. · God does not cause mental illness either to punish or teach, or as a working out of God’s will in the world. · Health and illness are caused by many factors. Still, God is present in the many factors of life as a non-coercive force for health and wholeness.
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Study: Administration Of Non-Psychotropic Cannabinoid Mitigates Psychotic Symptoms In Schizophrenics
Investigators concluded, "Our results provide evidence that the non-cannabimimetic constituent of marijuana, cannabidiol, exerts clinically relevant antipsychotic effects that are associated with marked tolerability and safety, when compared with current medications. ... The results ... potentially represent a completely new mechanism in the treatment of schizophrenia."
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Scientifica is a peer-reviewed, open access journal covering a wide range of subjects in the life sciences and environmental sciences.
YET ANOTHER ARTICLE REFUTING THE MULTI BILLION MARKETING OF ANTI-DEPRESSANTS.
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When it comes to pain, the two competing schools of thought are that it's either "all in your head" or "all in your body." A new study led by University of Oxford researchers indicates that, instead, pain is an amalgam of the two.
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Ketamine, an anesthetic commonly used in veterinary practice for feline surgical procedures, has been found to help bipolar patients suffering from depression.
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Article about Turnaround: Turning Fear Into Freedom, a therapy program to treat anxiety in children.
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A suicide attempt in sobriety landed me in a psych ward, surrounded by people who talked about porn, corn and hearing voices. They just may have saved my life.
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Why is there such a strong anti-medical model attitude towards serious mental illness when the evidence keeps growing that these are diseases of the brain?
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Margaret McCartney: Antidepressants may be overprescribed, but as a GP I know the solution is not to minimise the experience of this condition
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MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health
Timothy J Wright's insight:
At this time, we need further research to definitively determine whether maternal anxiety or depression or medication use may increase the risk of autism spectrum disorders, and whether other unknown factors associated with maternal mental health conditions or medicine use modulate this risk.
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Definition of mental illness plus the five major categories of mental illness and misconceptions about mental illness.
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Stigma, medication, treatment options, recovery, patient rights, and physiological basis are some of the most discussed topics regarding bipolar. There are, of course, many other interesting aspects to debate, but it is hard to find any discussions about bipolar that do not include one or more of these central topics. While it has been very healthy to debate all of them, there is an underlying assumption that must be addressed too ......continued ..........
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The CNN Headline News health journalist comes under scrutiny after admitting he helped a major drug company promote antidepressants to consumers.
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“What do you think caused your problems?,” I asked. “I have a chemical imbalance, a chemical imbalance, an imbalance in the brain that makes me ill.”
we have cultivated a dangerous mythology in the promotion of the notion that mental illnesses are due to chemical imbalances.
The term ‘chemical imbalance’ is not a medical or scientific term. Indeed a quick scientific literature search will show that the term is conspicuous by its absence. Despite this, patients and their families are often told by their physicians that their problems are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. Most pharmaceutical advertising for psychiatric drugs also tells consumers that mental illnesses are caused by chemical imbalances.
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Here's an obvious observation: Doing art -- whether music, painting, writing, dance, whatever -- can contribute immeasurably to psychological well-being.
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Bashing mental health drugs has become a popular trend of late. But just because some people are taking SSRIs that don't need them doesn't mean all such drugs are bad.
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People with mental health problems - and their doctors - use pills in the belief they alter a chemical imbalance in the brain. But Dr Joanna Moncrieff says they simply alter someone's mental state - like alcohol and cannabis.
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It seems that Americans are in the midst of a raging epidemic of mental illness, at least as judged by the increase in the numbers treated for it.
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New research on why antidepressants may worsen long-term outcomes By Robert Whitaker...
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