...pharmaceutical companies are as much in the business of selling the “depression” diagnosis as they are in selling antidepressants. David Healy, The Antidepressant Era

Forget Talking, just fill a script: How modern psychiatry lost its mind
Depression, drugs and the DSM: A tale of self interest and public outrage

AUTHOR: Hans Pols, Associate ( Read more... )

Depression is not a brain disease, and chemicals don't cure it.

The notion that impaired serotonin (5-HT) function can lead to clinical depression has a long history but is still controversial. Some have argued that the 5-HT hypothesis has been misused by the pharmaceutical industry to promote a simplistic biological model of depression to market ( Read more... )

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I've culled my friends list in an effort to protect my journal. Strange things happening in the real world are, apparently, threatening security here. In an effort to protect my journal, I've culled most people off my friends list. Journals I don't know well or can't prove their existence in the real world have been cut.

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