NAMI

Valid Challenges to the DSM

Valid Challenges to the DSM  The following recent report and manuals encourages us to reflect more deeply on problems within the mental healthcare system and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)—They profile
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New Book: The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines

  The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs. 1st Edition by Mark Horowitz, and David M. Taylor … “with the express purpose of limiting the damage that we have seen far too many people

Gross Misconduct — The Final Nail in the Coffin for Antidepressants

Antidepressants-Updated Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola, First published: January 30, 2024 STORY AT-A-GLANCE The Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D) study published in 2006 was the largest and longest-running antidepressant effectiveness trial ever conducted
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Spiritual Bypassing

  Spiritual Bypassing Defined The term, spiritual bypassing, was made popular in the 1980’s by the late John Welwood, PhD, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist who observed the phenomenon in his own spiritual community. Sometimes life
CHD

CHD Launches ‘Reform Pharma’ Initiative

CHD Launches ‘Reform Pharma’ Initiative to End Big Pharma Influence, Corruption Children’s Health Defense has launched Reform Pharma, an initiative that aims to curb the pharmaceutical industry’s influence in government, promote informed consent, ban drug
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Antidepressants & Mass Murder

Antidepressants & Mass Murder   2.5 min video by Peter Goetzche, a brilliant MD/researcher, on risks of psychiatric medications for adults and youth Antidepressants and Other Psychiatric Drugs Psychiatric drugs are mind altering chemicals designed
ACE

Adverse Childhood Experiences Quiz

ACE – Adverse Childhood Experiences There is well-documented and extensively researched predictor for the severity of chronic illnesses called ACE, or Adverse Childhood Experiences. The scoring system consists of 10 questions that explore dysfunction in

Improving Mental Health Outcomes: September, 2023 Report

Improving Mental Health Outcomes: September, 2023 Report The mental health system’s standard treatments are colossally counterproductive and harmful, often forced on unwilling patients. The overreliance on psychiatric drugs is reducing the recovery rate of people

Indigenous American Psychology: NEW

A Cherokee Man   Indigenous culture has been translated into “A New Psychology Based on Community, Equality, and Care of the Earth” by an award-winning, Amer-Indian psychologist, Arthur W. Blume, PhD.  The book was published
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Mental Health Education in Schools

Mental health education lessons are coming to the national curriculum [UK] next year [2020]. Teachers should be empowered to acknowledge that mental health is a contested area, argues psychologist and lecturer Anne Cooke. Ask students