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.
Overtreatment
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.
Long-term Effects of Antipsychotics on the Brain
An informative video covering the extremely damaging effects of antipsychotics on the human brain and specific side effects.
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.
Rethinking Antidepressant Medications for Children and Adolescents: Safety and Efficacy
Clinical psychologist Dr. Roger McFillin dismantles the claim that SSRI antidepressants are safe or effective for children and adolescents.
Saving normal with Allen Frances, MD – Psychiatric diagnostic overreach.
Psychiatrist Allen Frances, from the DSM-IV task force and later wrote Saving Normal, discusses psychiatry’s slide into diagnostic overreach.
0. The really simple story of psychiatry
The real story of psychiatry No causes, no cures This is an examination of a subject that began around 150 years ago and promoted itself… Read More »0. The really simple story of psychiatry
The Myth of Low-Serotonin & Antidepressants
Psychiatrist and researcher Mark Horowitz dismantles one of psychiatry’s most profitable myths: that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” of low serotonin.
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.
Bruce Levine on Psychiatry’s Cultural Deception and the Pathologizing of Normal Behavior
In this revealing interview, psychologist and critic Bruce Levine pulls back the curtain on psychiatry’s unholy alliance with pharmaceutical interests. He describes how Big Pharma’s… Read More »Bruce Levine on Psychiatry’s Cultural Deception and the Pathologizing of Normal Behavior