depression

Study: 70% of People on Antidepressants Don’t Have Depression

If sales for antidepressants such as Zoloft, Lexapro, or Prozac tell us anything, it’s that depression is sweeping the nation. But a new study questions the validity of most of these sales. The study has found that the majority of individuals on antidepressants – a whopping 69% – do not even meet the criteria for clinical depression. These individuals are likely just experiencing normal sadness and hardships that most of us experience.

LIONEL PODCAST: What Really Happened to Germanwings Kamikaze FLT 9525

A comparison. The mainstream media report on stories, detailing specific facts, and then ignore the skepticism that reading their stories would inspire! They don’t even follow up on facts they report. They ignore their own stories. Let that sink in as I provided this comparison.
Let’s look at the crash site and debris field. This is what was left of Germanwings FLT 9525, an Airbus A320. Notice the referenced graphic from BBC News. A significant debris field, to be sure.

Robin Williams, Mental Health, and Social Insanity

We are made miserable … not just by the strength of our beliefs, but by the weight of hard and all-too real situations, as they bear downward, robbing us of control … unhappiness treated by clinicians has much more to do with the sufferer’s situation than with anything about themselves, and for those with few privileges, this unhappiness is pretty well beyond the reach of therapeutic or any other conversation.
– Paul Moloney1

De-Manufacturing Consent- Psychiatry’s “Useful Fictions” & the Pathologizing of Dissent

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Dr. Bruce Levine
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent Guillermo is joined by Dr. Bruce Levine, a practicing clinical psychologist and author of the book Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite. We discuss how elites in Psychiatry and Psychology have used the “chemical imbalance fiction” for what they consider to be the “greater good,” and have kept the truth about mental illnesses like depression away from the public, while at the same time making billions for Big Pharma.

This just in from the Cutting Edge of Science: Do cats cause depression?

Can't dog people and cat people just get along?by KenIt would be oversimplifying to suggest that the world is divided between dog people and cat people. After all, there are also none-of-the-above people, even within the pet-owning community, which includes such odd ducks as bird people and fish people and monkey people and ocelot people and (yuck!) lizard people and (God help us) reptile people.