Twenty-four percent of the patients treated with Saint-John’s-wort had a full response, 25 percent of the Zoloft patients, and 32 percent of the placebo group. This study fails to support the efficacy...
We must realize that mental problems are just as real as physical disease, and that anxiety and depression require active therapy as much as appendicitis or pneumonia, wrote Dr. Howard Rusk, a profess...
When it comes to dead bodies in current psychotropic trials, there are a greater number of them in the active treatment groups than in the placebo groups. This is quite different from what happens in...
And she no longer is having her emotional responses to...stress numbed by medication. I've been off the drugs for two years, and sometimes I find it very, very difficult to deal with my emotions. I te...
The number of episodes, and it’s a very rich literature [documenting this], is associated with more cognitive deficits, he said. We are building more episodes, more treatment resistance, more cognitiv...
The history of psychiatry and its treatments can be a contentious issue in our society, so much so that when you write about it, as I did in an earlier book, Mad in America, people regularly ask about...
Rather than fix chemical imbalances in the brain, the drugs creat them. (207)
In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system. (176)
I have always been told that a person has to accept that the illness is chronic, she says, at the end of our interview. You can be 'in recovery,' but you can never be 'recovered.' But I don't want to...
That experience allowed me to see this therapeutic principle in action, Stanton said. You just can't organize yourself without a connection to another human being, and you can't make that connection i...
The cure, it seemed, had once again been proven to be worse than the disease.
Recovery on the med model requires you to be obedient, like a child, she explains. You are obedient to your doctors, you are compliant with your therapist, and you take your meds. There's no striving...
Klonopin ruined my lie. It takes away your drive, and in the morning, you don't want to get out of bed, because you feel so groggy. I don't even know what it's like to feel normal. This is my world. T...
We have been focusing on the role that psychiatry and its medications may be playing in this epidemic, and the evidence is quite clear. First, by greatly expanding diagnostic boundaries, psychiatry is...
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must befree to follow wherever that search may lead us. —ADLAI STEVENSON (1952)
But none of these drugs had been developed after scientists had identified any disease process or brain abnormality that might have been causing these symptoms.
The evaluation of the merits of medical treatments for madness has always been a calculation made by doctors and, to a certain extent, by society as a whole. Does the treatment provide a method for ma...
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