{"id":196,"date":"2009-07-04T06:40:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=196"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:46","slug":"depression-diagnoses-decline-after-fda-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/04\/depression-diagnoses-decline-after-fda-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression diagnoses decline after FDA warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A persistent decline in the rate of Americans, especially children, newly diagnosed with depression followed the first federal warning on risks connected with antidepressant drugs, a study suggests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration first warned about the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in young people taking the drugs. That action may have helped reverse a five-year trend of rising rates of diagnosis for depression, the researchers found.<\/p>\n

“The findings, published Monday [June 1, 2009]\u00c2\u00a0in the Archives of General Psychiatry<\/em>, are based on an analysis of eight years of data from nearly 100 managed care plans and more than 55 million patients.<\/p>\n

“It was already known that antidepressant use among young people had fallen since the drugs began carrying a so-called “black box” warning about risks. But the data showing an extended decline in the level of depression diagnoses are new.”<\/p>\n

(Original article from Associated Press, by Carla K. Johnson, <\/a>Jun 1, 2009<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

[Editorial Comment: The data suggests that psychiatric diagnoses only increased because of the amount of money that could be made by labeling children with a psychiatric disorder and prescribing them psychiatric drugs.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Marginalized by the field of medicine because of its lack of scientific credentials, psychiatry today works hard to create an apparent scientific image for its diagnostic system, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<\/em> (DSM), and the use of prescription psychiatric drugs.<\/span><\/div>\n

As a result of such marketing efforts, general practitioners now prescribe up to 80% of antidepressants. Doctors, however, are finding out about the sham of psychiatry and its fraudulent diagnostic system; and the subsequent decline in psychiatric diagnoses is no surprise. It is vital that medical practitioners universally reject the DSM diagnostic system as a pseudo-medicine and as a danger to their patients.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Patients with actual physical conditions are routinely misdiagnosed with psychiatric disorders, then drugged or institutionalized. Numerous studies show that undiagnosed and untreated physical problems can cause behavioral and emotional problems, not to mention the many problems caused by adverse reactions (side effects) to psychiatric drugs. Proper medical screening by non-psychiatric diagnostic specialists could eliminate more than 40% of psychiatric admissions.<\/span><\/div>\n

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For more information about the pseudoscience of psychiatry and its false diagnoses, download and read this CCHR booklet<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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