Paul Minot, MD When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything else looks like a nail.

A thread 🧵 showing why people are rightly angry about the corruption between psychiatry & pharma. It concerns the psychiatrist, Joseph Biederman, & the 'Harvard Scandal', which helped fuel a highly damaging wave of antipsychotic drugging in children. Here's what happened 👇

One of the chapters in my forthcoming book, "How Psychiatry Lost Its Mind," examines the pharmacological death of Rebecca Riley--a toddler tragically diagnosed with "pediatric bipolar disorder." Certainly one the most stupid and evil episodes in modern psychiatry, it reveals just

Exercise is the most underprescribed antidepressant

Oh my God, it's the truth. Finally.

The word 'depression' is a catch-all phrase which, once you get to know a person deeply, tells us very little about the nuances, origins & substance of their experience. I find the phrase clinically unhelpful & the medicalised meanings with which it is laden regularly misleading.

If you look into its physiological function in sexual response, you'll find that serotonin mediates the refractory period of sexual response--also known as "afterglow," when we feel happy, calm, and unworried after having an orgasm. At this time we usually feel sexually

Laura, your story is an examination of just how frivolous and shallow our assessment of any human being is, when all we psychiatrists are seeking is an applicable DSM category to direct our treatment. We're unlikely to dig further into what the person is feeling; what's making

Laura Delano From my perspective as a physician, Laura Delano’s experience is painfully familiar and deeply revealing. What she describes is not a rare exception or a personal misfortune. It is the predictable outcome of a mental health system built on a fundamentally flawed model of the

What she said.

Amen to this! In my forthcoming book, I hypothesize that the mind is a software entity constructed of data code in nucleic acids. I recommend the application of software patches of data to reconcile software issues that manifest as psychic pain, such as depression. I call these

I agree that the public wants a pill to fix their feelings. But they are relying upon us to determine what is helpful and what isn't. They come to us in a state of despair. As a doctor prescribing medication to my patients, I bear the greater responsibility in such interactions.

Paul Minot, MD You could argue, though, that turning the patient into a passive though willing recipient of whatever doctors/drug companies recommend is exactly how we got into this fix. People need to assert themselves in doctors offices.

Ken Milne MD Dr. Anna MD “In My Opinion” Island Health The Royal College Laura Delano Rob Wipond Paul Minot, MD Dr. Josef 🇺🇸 Michelle Funk UN Human Rights World Health Organization (WHO) Mad In America Mad In The UK Dr Joanna Moncrieff Montreal Experiments Class Action Members My own experience of course is an example of zero EBM, no informed consent, drugs for life based on subjective opinions which failed to notice iatrogenesis.

Absolutely. This describes how "EBM" has been contrived to dodge the strict standards demanded by the scientific method. It allows technology to run amok, substituting the criteria of "evidence" for "proof beyond all reasonable doubt."

My hunch is that the DSM process is responsible for at least 80% of the children diagnosed with autism.

'Saving Normal' has aged much better than I have. Published 12 years ago, it's just as lively & relevant now as it was then. Sorry i can't say the same for my knees or my mind. The word endures better than the flesh.

“We are made by relationships. Most meaning, as well as suffering, is found in relationships. Our entire sense of self only makes sense within the context of relationships.” Orestis Zavlis 👇🏽

This aphorism has never been more applicable to any enterprise than it is to modern psychiatry.

Carl Hindy, Ph.D. I am employed by a hospital, doing both outpatient and inpatient work, operating as part of a team. I would say that my work is more medication oriented than I would prefer--all our doctors have to work within mainstream standards. But my employer and my team members know that I