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Taking a pill to treat depression is widely believed to work by reversing a chemical imbalance. ... Magazines, newspapers, patients' organisations and internet sites have all publicised the idea that conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be treated by drugs that help to rectify an underlying brain problem. People with schizophrenia and other conditions are frequently told that they need to take...
2009-07-15
pharmaceutical industry drug medication psychology brain chemistry neuroscience psychiatryThe practice of forcing psychiatric patients to take medication is not backed by evidence.
2008-12-04
coercion abuse medication psychology violence psychiatryAn updated edition of a mental health bible for doctors may include diagnoses for "disorders" such as toddler tantrums and binge eating, experts say, and could mean that soon no-one will be classed as normal.
2010-07-28
psychiatry mental disorder disease pharmaceutical industry psychology directory classificationIs nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Defined as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily...
2010-10-14
mental disease illness freedom medicine psychiatry pharmaceutical industryPolice in Bristol have arrested four people after secret filming by BBC Panorama found a pattern of serious abuse at a residential hospital. Winterbourne View treats people with learning disabilities and autism. Andrew McDonnell, who works with adults with mental disabilities, labelled some of the examples seen on film "torture". All four have been released on police bail. The hospital's owners, Castlebeck, have apologised...
2011-06-01
psychiatry prison torture autism disability patientThe amazing thing about schizophrenia is these are people who have to live their life without being able to believe their senses.
2012-05-29
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