The ERNI Declaration: Making Sense of Distress Without âDiseaseâ
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The ERNI (Emotions aRe Not Illnesses) declaration is based on the idea that distress does not equate to disease, dysfunction, dysregulation, or chemical imbalance. Signatories believe that there needs to be a shift from illness and diagnosis ideas to personal narratives and understandings.
The declaration was created with the appreciation that there are many like-minded people out there who share opinion, research, ideas, and experiences with others within many contexts but are frustrated by subsequent lack of action or change within mental health and other related systems.
The Disease Model
The disease model for understanding emotional distress has been the primary paradigm in Western cultures for a hundred years, with roots that stretch back even further.
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 8)
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Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America will publish a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs
. In this blog, he discusses psychiatry’s resistance to admitting to withdrawal effects, as well as the way doctors and scientists are treated when they critique the establishment. Each Monday, a new section of the book will be published, and all chapters will be archived
False information on withdrawal from UK psychiatrists
In 2020, I co-authored a paper written by psychology professor John Read, “Why did official accounts of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms differ so much from research findings and patients’ experiences?”
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 6)
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Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America will publish a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Mental Health Survival Kit and Withdrawal from Psychiatric Drugs
. In this blog, he discusses the dangers of lithium, antiepileptic drugs, and ADHD pills. Each Monday, a new section of the book will be published, and all chapters will be archived
Lithium
Lithium is a highly toxic metal used for bipolar disorder. Like most other psychiatric drugs, it sedates people and renders them inactive. Serum concentrations must be closely monitored because toxicity can occur at doses close to therapeutic concentrations.
Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD
March 16, 2021
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Psychiatric Times: Conversations in Critical Psychiatry’s Awais Aftab interviews Dr. Sami Timimi, a prominent voice of British critical psychiatry and especially child psychiatry, in the context of his latest book
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