Recovering Emotions After 24 Years on Antidepressants
This article is absolute bullshit and quite frankly dangerous. It seems to me this woman was emotionally vulnerable and taken in by a snake oil huckster masquerading as a doctor.<p>&gt; Shortly after I started seeing him, my new doctor had me read the book Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker.<p>Robert Whitaker&#x27;s theses in that book have repeatedly been scientifically disproven. It&#x27;s anti-science drivel.<p>&gt;  The pharmaceutical industry also says that mental illness represents a physical problem with the brain that needs to be fixed. There are no studies that prove that this is true.<p>This statement is untrue. Literally three seconds of googling showed me this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4471964&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4471964&#x2F;</a><p>Which basically says that when we deplete the body of certain neurotransmitters, people get depressed. That sounds like a pretty clear statement that there are biological processes at play in mental illness.