Sitting Duck Syndrome: Why Sexual Trauma Victims Are Easy Therapist Prey
Sitting Duck Syndrome: Why Incest Survivors (and Other High-Risk Patients) Are Prime Targets for Therapist Sexual Abuse
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Poisoning from ADHD drugs soaring in Australia.
The latest research from Australia delivers a stark, data-driven indictment of psychiatry’s primary “solution” for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Australia’s PBS Mental Health Script Explosion: 47+ Million Prescriptions and Still No Cures
In the Nineteenth century psychiatry promised a new dawn for mental health. Instead, it has delivered a perpetual night of symptom suppression, ever-expanding diagnoses, and a pharmaceutical profit machine that treats patients as repeat customers.
“Drowning in a Sea of Diagnoses”
The author argues that the system is designed to “produce patients rather than health” by medicalising normal human distress and making support dependent on receiving a formal diagnosis.
Letter of Resignation from the American Psychiatric Association – Loren Mosher
…the most important part of a resident’s curriculum is the art and quasi-science of dealing drugs, i.e., prescription writing.
Machine learning failed to find biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder
A January 2024 study using machine learning analysis of neuroscience findings failed to find any biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder.
Astonishing, poor psychiatric treatment of Australian veterans
Australian veterans subjected to potentially debilitating psych and other drug cocktails. It is not known what the complete combined side effects of these are.
Multiple, concurrent psychotropics prescribed for children increasing in the USA
A recent study of almost 127,000 youths who were subject to Medicaid from a single US state found from 2015 to 2020 the rate of psychotropic polypharmacy had increased to 4.6% – affecting more than 5,800 individuals.
Rape and sexual assault in UK mental health
More than 26,000 sexual abuse incidents over 5 years found in UK mental health facilities. 2,500 alleged incidents of sexual violence and misconduct AGAINST PATIENTS
Electroconvulsive therapy side effects
Psychiatry has been hesitant to provide a full account of possible side effects from electroconvulsive therapy and so they are given here.
More and more off-label, criminal use of antipsychotics
Antipsychotic use is dramatically increasing and beyond psychosis symptoms The use of antipsychotics is rapidly increasing and most of it is ‘off-label’, non-approved use.
Warning on paroxetine withdrawal.
Where it had been promoted that withdrawal from paroxetene was safe and easy, in fact up to 7% of patients could experience withdrawal symptoms with some of these severe and prolonged.