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Canada delays implementing assisted suicide for the mentally ill

Canadian government backing down on assisted suicide for the mentally ill apparently due to public outcry on the subject.

Psychiatry defends 30 years of lies about depression

For more than 30 years, psychiatry has been complicit with pharmaceutical company marketing in forwarding the largest fraud in the history of medicine: the lie of the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression.

More on misuse of antipsychotics

The Washington Post report found that government attempts to ban to indiscriminate use of antipsychotics for elderly dementia patients had resulted in their use being replaced by anticonvulsant medications that could be used for the treatment of epilepsy.

Another ECT myth debunked, again

A 2022 study finds no protection against suicide 30 days after ECT treatment and worse, a 30% increased risk of suicide in the following year.

ECT psychs aren’t telling patients the truth

ECT psychiatrists and device manufacturers aren’t telling patients the truth about ECT side effects and this is now resulting in legal consequences Still pushing marketing over science

And just how is psychiatry improving mental health?

An examination of two countries that are among the highest psychiatric drug use per capita in the world finds that both have long statistical trends of increased suicides.

Psychiatry’s DSM – just a bunch of opinions

Psychiatry’s influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is only based on the consensus of opinions of a small number of American Psychiatric Association psychiatrists, rather than science.

Danish study finds the more psychiatric treatment, the greater risk of suicide

Despite attempts to explain away shocking outcomes, the bottom line is that persons receiving psychiatric interventions were found to more likely commit suicide

What’s gone wrong with Australia’s youth mental health?

With youth suicide rates rising from the mid 2000s and astonishing increases in psychiatric drugs being prescribed, where have things gone wrong with the handling of youth mental health?

Antipsychotics – a horrible replacement for even worse alternatives

When the first antipsychotic, chlorpromazine, emerged in the 1950s it was gleefully described by psychiatrists as a ‘chemical lobotomy’ – as though this was something to aim for.

Akathisia – side effects of psychiatric drugs

An image of a person suffering from akatisia

“It may be less of a question of patients experiencing fluoxetine-induced suicidal ideation than patients feeling that ‘death is a welcome result’ when the acutely discomforting symptoms of akathisia are experienced on top of already distressing…

Chemical imbalance – psychiatry as a pharma marketing tool

A hand pouring pills into a person's head

Despite hundreds, if not thousands of contributions from psychiatrists in support of the chemical imbalance theory, some leading voices in the field deny there ever was a theory and the public have been misled. It was all somehow pharmaceutical marketing at fault.