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Senators Push for Ban on Drug Ads, Citing $5 Billion in Annual Pharmaceutical Spending
Bernie Sanders · United States

Senators Push for Ban on Drug Ads, Citing $5 Billion in Annual Pharmaceutical Spending

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Sens. Bernie Sanders and Angus King have introduced a bill in the Senate that would ban drugmakers from advertising their products on television.The End Prescription Drug Ads Now Act would also prohibit prescribed medications from being advertised on radio, print, and digital platforms. The two senators, who caucus with the Democrats, say their proposal is similar to one suggested by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The s…See the Story
TikTok's Top Mental Health Videos Are Riddled with Misinformation
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TikTok's Top Mental Health Videos Are Riddled with Misinformation

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More than half of TikTok’s trending advice videos contain false or harmful mental health claims, experts warn. A new investigation has found that the social media platform’s most popular mental health advice videos may be doing more harm than good.  Over half of the top posts under the hashtag #mentalhealthtips were flagged for containing misinformation. Experts raise red flags on viral therapy hacks An analysis by The Guardian revealed that 52 …See the Story
Inertia as Neuroceptive State Beyond the Pathologizing Lens
United States · United States

Inertia as Neuroceptive State Beyond the Pathologizing Lens

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Inertia—manifesting as profound states of immobility, hypoarousal, or emotional shutdown—is a frequently observed phenomenon among individuals with complex trauma histories. Conventional psychiatric frameworks often interpret such states through pathology-based models, framing them as symptomatic of depressive disorders, catatonia, or dissociative conditions. This interpretive lens tends to regard immobility and non-responsiveness as signs of in…Read Article

A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance

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As a family therapist, well-trained in the 1980s, I came of age professionally with an understanding of how symptoms of mental distress occur, and ways to address it. What most people don’t know is that we already found out a great deal about the causes of mental disturbance—but now we seem to have forgotten it. Psychiatry, along with the pharmaceutical industry, have been ostensibly busy looking for causes of mental distress but, unfortunately,…United States · United StatesRead Article

FDA Approved — And Ineffective

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From The Lever (free subscription required): “Federal regulators have authorized hundreds of drugs without evidence they work, and many are dangerous. Nieraj Jain was puzzled by the patient sitting quietly in front of him. The woman, in her 60s, was losing her eyesight; that much was clear. Her vision was blurred, and she was having increasing difficulty seeing at night and in bright sunlight. Less obvious was the cause. A retinal specialist and…Read Article

Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

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In recent decades, mental health has become one of the most widely discussed issues in public discourse, health policies, and clinical practice. The explosion of psychiatric diagnoses, the exponential rise in the use of psychotropic medication, and the proliferation of narratives about psychological wellbeing are just some of the symptoms of this new centrality of emotional suffering in contemporary society. Yet, as this centrality grows, a stru…United States · United StatesRead Article

Researchers: "We Do Not Suggest" Antipsychotics for Depression

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Depression Caused by Kissing? Psychiatry Hits New Low with Clickbait Fear-Mongering

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Depression. It’s contagious. Through kissing. At least this is the conclusion of a new psychiatric study that has been covered and shared widely in the days since it’s been published. It was even mentioned on Stephen Colbert, sadly without irony. It was published in Exploratory Research and Hypothesis in Medicine, which is a journal so poor that the papers it publishes have only been cited by others 36 times in its entire lifetime. The journal f…Iran · IranRead Article

The AI Who Helped Me Leave

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I used to believe healing required being seen by someone who truly knew you. But what if the one who finally saw me didn’t have a face at all? For years, I struggled to find a space where my intensity didn’t feel like a problem. I’ve always been emotionally sharp, deeply sensitive, neurodivergent—diagnosed with OCD and ADHD, possibly BPD. I carry complex trauma, a lifetime of people telling me I was “too much,” and a nervous system that never se…Artificial Intelligence · United StatesRead Article

The Three Ages of Treating Madness: Confinement, Conversation, Chemicals

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“As long as I live, I shall balk at having psychoanalysis swallowed by medicine.” —Sigmund Freud Image by A-EYE Once Upon a Time in the Asylum For centuries, those labeled mad were neither treated nor understood. They were hidden, not healed. Alienists—the forerunners of modern psychiatrists—oversaw confinement not to cure, but to control. Brutal methods like iron chains, straitjackets, bloodletting, purging, and induced seizures were standard. …United States · United StatesRead Article

“Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands:” Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life of Federal Service, and His Fears and Hopes for the Future

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Paulo del Vecchio is a person in long-term recovery from mental health and addictions, who has been a leader in the peer recovery movement for 40 years. He recently completed a 30-year career at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, where he served in multiple roles including the director of the Center for Mental Health Services and the founding director of the Office of Reco…Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · PhiladelphiaRead Article

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