Depression: Psychiatry's Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach
Psychiatry’s depression outcomes are poor because its treatments are based on a depression model that science has flushed down the toilet.
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Psychiatry’s depression outcomes are poor because its treatments are based on a depression model that science has flushed down the toilet.
Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or "ice-pick" lobotomy.
Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Chris Palmer joins Chris in this episode of Revolution Health Radio to talk about metabolic psychiatry and his brain energy theory of mental illness. They discuss why classifying mental disorders as “separate” conditions is misleading; the connections between mental illness and disorders linked to metabolism, including diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, pain disorders, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, and epilepsy; the link between metabolism and factors known to play a role in mental health, including genetics, inflammation, hormones, neurotransmitters, sleep, stres...
If you took SSRI antidepressants believing that these drugs helped correct a chemical imbalance, how does it feel to learn that this theory has long been disproven?
There's an old saying in research: "garbage in; garbage out". Research based on false assumptions will produce invalid conclusions.