"Nick Fortino and renowned psychiatrist Dr. David Healy look at modern psychiatry and psychopharmacology. Dr. Healy, a vocal critic of the pharmaceutical industry's influence, exposes how the "serotonin myth" emerged from marketing, reveals how antidepressants (SSRIs) can blunt emotions and cause iatrogenic harm, and discusses the public health crisis of long-term drug use, urging a reevaluation of mental healthcare, especially for children."—Psychology Is

David Healy | The Antidepressant Deception >

https://youtu.be/d78pBEmRRQI?si=ErnOiXWR-ZUxlLQZ

#David_Healy #interview #psychiatry #psychology #SSRI #therapy #medication #drugs #serotonin #SSRIs #blunt #antidepressants #blunt_emotions #iatrogenic_harm #public_health_crisis #public_health #mental_healthcare #healthcare #mental_health #psychopharmacology #big_pharma #marketing #depression #mind #body

"In his book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective hypnosis to take hold. By analysing the global pandemic, he identifies the phenomenon of ‘mass formation’ and illustrates how humanity is being forcibly, unconsciously led into a reality of technocratic totalitarianism, which aggressively excludes alternative views and relies on destructive groupthink, vilifying non-conformist thought as ‘dissident."—

Mattias Desmet - The Psychology Of Totalitarianism >

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS5_uyTNpZs

#psychology #documentary #film #disenchantment #existential_stress #anxiety #bullshit_jobs #group_think #narratives #collateral_damage #one_sided_argument #totalitarianism #silencing #mass_formation_psychosis #rituals #lockdowns #statistics #policies #banality_of_evil #great_reset #SARS_CoV2 #mainstream_medias #distortion #big_pharma #Mattias_Desmet #interview

"Did you know that nearly one in five UK adults - and almost one in four women - are currently taking antidepressants? Yet according to my guest this week, the fundamental theory behind these prescriptions may be built on remarkably shaky ground.

Joanna Moncrieff is Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London, consultant psychiatrist for the NHS, and the author of the groundbreaking book, Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.

In our thought-provoking conversation, Joanna explains how the widely accepted belief that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance or serotonin deficiency has little scientific evidence to support it. This theory, which became popularised in the 1990s through pharmaceutical industry marketing, has fundamentally changed how we view our emotions and mental health."—

Dark Truth About Antidepressants & How Big Pharma Fooled Everyone >

https://youtu.be/ynDbdAb8yxU?si=MnGj-iqFHa5ed7d5

#interview #Joanna_Moncrieff #antidepressants #mental_health #serotonin_myth #health #pharmaceutical_industry #well_being #big_pharma #psychiatry #psychology #trauma #emotions #serotonin #SSRIs #SNRIs #NRIs#TCAs #TeCAs #trauma #depression #mental_wellbeing #therapy #medicine #research

Interesting--in this time of increasingly "lone" and solitary "privatization," so called--to recall the history of collectivization and its perennial importance in many financial instruments such as insurance.

1700s Scotland
https://www.sfe.org.uk/financial-services-in-scotland

#Insurance #Joint_Stock #Collectivization #Socialization #Finance #Privatization #Individualism #Private_Ownership #Single_Payer #NHS #Big_Pharma #Big_Bills

#SenatorPeterWelch #big_pharma #CrazyRFKJR

This could easily be accomplished, no one in their right damned mind wants to pay out hundreds of dollars to Walgreens each month.

I certainly don’t. Glad Vermont’s senators are on the case.

"This is the story of how pills for osteopenia ended up in Benghauser's medicine cabinet, and in the medicine cabinets of millions of women like her all over the United States. But more broadly, it's the story of how the definition of what constitutes a disease evolves, and the role that drug companies can play in that evolution."—Alix Spiegel [NPR]

How A Bone Disease Grew To Fit The Prescription >

https://www.npr.org/2009/12/21/121609815/how-a-bone-disease-grew-to-fit-the-prescription

#big_pharma #Fosamax #Alendronate #Binosto #Alendronic_Acid #Bisphosphonates #side_effects #bones #health #osteopenia #medicine #drugs #treatments #osteoporosis #densitometry #business #history #WHO #Jeremy_Allen vs #Richard_Mazess #Merk vs #Lunar_Corp #bones_health #dangerous_medication #article #medical #science #diseases