Depression & Bipolar Myths Part 1, Psychology with Dr. John Breeding & Anna Miller

Depression & Bipolar Myths Part 1, Psychology with Dr. John Breeding & Anna Miller

Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologists talks with Anna Miller, the founder and CEO of The Depression Project about recovery from depression and bipolar mental disorders. Is the solution really in conventional psychiatry or are there myths about mental illness which prevent people from honestly recovering.

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[closetome]

I was put on anti-depressants manerix because I was stuck in a deep rut. They gave me the strength to get out and over the hill and now I'm off them.

[thatblondgirl1]

Just a small but valid point....depression in many cultures is considered shameful or taboo & people do not seek help...that is if in these undeveloped countries help is anywhere to be found there fore these people hide or deny that there is a problem, this explains your theory of a 60% spontaneous recovery in undeveloped countries

[brw9284]

check yourself in the mirror before going on camera. your bra strap is showing...

[awiley52]

@awiley52 None of this is to say that some medications have serious and potentially dangerous side effects. In any treatment (like surgery), you have to weigh risks and benefits. We should also be aware that psychiatry, like ANY practice, can be done badly, or for bad purposes, or can be corrupted by money (in specific ways vs. "grand conspiracy"). But to go from this to an extreme pseudoscientifically driven anti-psychiatry ideology is both ignorant and harmful to the people it says it helps

[awiley52]

@Transmintosity It is also true that people who go to the ER for catastrophic injuries or get open heart surgery die, on average, at a much younger age than people who do not go to the ER or get surgery. That's why I call it the "surgi-caust," and that's why I think we should abolish surgery. Could it be that people who take psychiatric medications die, on average, younger because of higher suicide rates and other negative life experiences associated with mental illness? See next post

[awiley52]

@Transmintosity What does the 'excessive indulgence' of 50 cent words 'betoken?' Style over substance? I find your posts to be PALAVEROUS, GARRULOUS, CIRCUMOCUTORY, PLEONASTIC, MAGNILOQUENT, GRANDILOQUENT, AND PERIPHRASTIC. Put away the 19th century thesaurus and start making sense. Science is about CLARITY and TRUTH, mental illness denial is based on PROPAGANDA and A DISTORTED INTERPRETATION OF THE FACTS.

[awiley52]

@Transmintosity Ah, you don't believe in the existence of mental illness. The problem, for mental illness deniers, appears to be the term "illness" or "disease." The term "disorder" is probably the most accurate, since we are talking about disorders of thinking, feeling, and behaving. So, you don't believe in the existence of schizophrenia and autism. Here's the simple question I know that you won't answer. If they aren't illnesses or disorders, what, then, are they? No biological test, so...?

[Transmintosity]

...by the rewards offered it in exchange for its soul and conscience, some time ago now, by the allure of wealth and preservation of its then moribund profession. In fact, what am I taliking about? P$ychiatry never had a soul, or a conscience.

[Transmintosity]

On top of this, you also have the fact that people on medications, especially the antipsychotics, are dying on average at a very young age; that these drugs are creating an epidemic of iatrogenic illness unprecedented in the history of this most ethically challenged of professions. Sadly, until the halls and offices of psychiatric institutions are cleansed of the miasma of capitalist greed, p$ychiatry will continue to persist arrogantly through the moral inferno it was tempted down by...

[Transmintosity]

....a good outcome for patients was preponderantly weighted in favour of not using medication, and instead creating an environment propitious to recovery from their suffering. I could go on and on, but it will be to no avail, because p$ychiatry has long since prostituted the interests of patients like myself for its own economic and professional aggrandisement consequent to its Faustian bargain with the pharmaceutical industry when it was, rightly, dying out as a profession.

[Transmintosity]

....people treated better without medications, truly mountainous even! NIMH studies over the past 50 years have shown that people generally get better in the longterm without a prescription. Maurice Rappaport conducted a study looking at whether neurolpetic, neurodegenerative drugs (which is what they are) work better for patients in the long-term than no 'treatment'. The study showed a marked superiority in favour of the non-medication. The Soteria project also showed that the possibility of...

[Transmintosity]

Blondgirl says, like a typical psychiatric ideologue, that the 60% spontaneous recovery is explained by the fact that depression is anathema in some countires. Allow me to play the trump card. Cross-cultural studies aren't the only studies, and in these studies, cultural differences are meaningless, because the comparative, longitudinal studies of patients on and off medications take place in the same cultural climate. There is a vast body of evidence showing better outcomes generally for...