Tag Archives: Major Depressive Disorder

Psychiatry’s latest mental disorders—”Creativity? There’s a pill for that. Not to mention nonconformity and quirkiness”

Since 1950, man has landed on the moon, made computers commonplace and harnessed nuclear power. We’re obviously using our minds to the fullest. Yet the number of ways we can go officially crazy has nearly tripled. The hugely influential reference book used by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals the world over to diagnose mental illness — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — currently lists 357 types of psychiatric afflictions, up from 128 when the first volume was published in 1952.

LewRockwell.com – The Big Government-Big Pharma Complex: Disease Mongering for Fear and Profit

The documentary film, Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs is reviewed. The author states, “Perhaps a most disturbing trend brought up in the film is the wacky, wild world of ‘things just ain’t right’ disorders. Whether it’s ‘generalized anxiety disorder,’ ‘major depressive disorder,’ ‘panic disorder,’ ‘acute social phobia,’ or finally, the celebrated ‘social anxiety disorder,’ there’s a disorder to fit you and explain away your day-to-day problems.”

No Surprise: Psychiatrist pushing “Depression” testing for 3-yr-olds connected to three drug companies

It’s easy to make jokes about “preschool depression”—students get it every time the alarm rings—but finding depression, “relapses,” “chronicity,” and “treatment resistance” in 3-year-olds is not funny.

Researchers used to believe that “young children were too cognitively and emotionally immature to experience depressive effects,” says Joan L. Luby, M.D., but now believe they can and do suffer from Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).