“Mental illness: is ‘chemical imbalance’ theory a myth?” Answer: Yes
The chemical imbalance theory has fallen in status from bedrock scientific principle to mere marketing device in the minds of many researchers. The Toronto Star…
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What Modern Day Heroes Look Like—Detroit Mother Maryanne Godboldo & Attorney Allison Folmar
It has been said that “heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.” Maryanne Godboldo and Allison Folmar are extraordinary women.
Are psychotropic drugs actually linked to mass shootings?
Instances of mass violence and mass shootings occur undoubtedly too often. When shootings such as those in Sandy Hook, Columbine, Aurora, and Virginia Tech happen, the blame often falls on gun ownership, violent media, or violent video games. I believe, as a whole, people are overlooking a variable that could very well be at the root of this problem — psychotropic drugs.
Dose ’em up! British psych journal says mental health patients aren’t receiving enough medication yet
As if mental health patients are not already taking enough pharmaceuticals, a group of scientists from the U.K. recently published a study chastising the mental health profession for allegedly “under-medicating” those with mental illnesses. According to the outrageous study, which was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, the physical health needs of mental patients are apparently being overlooked, which is causing many of these patients to suffer cardiovascular disease and various other conditions at a measurably higher rate than the rest of the population.
Adam Lanza Documents Released, But Still No Toxicology Test Results
One of the first people to “draw a potential connection between acts of deadly violence and psychiatric medication” was Neurosurgeon and CNN contributor Sanjay Gupta, MD. He asked, “…what medications, if any, he was on, and specifically I’m talking about antidepressants… If you look at the studies on other shootings like this that have happened, medications like this were a common factor…over a seven-year period, there were 11,000 episodes of violence related to drug side effects.”