Britney Spears' fans believe that she could be suffering from a very rare psychiatric condition, which comes as the star continues to share racy and high-energy videos online
Fans of pop princess Britney Spears believe she may be afflicted with akathisia, a disorder that makes it impossible to sit still as a side effect of psychiatric medications that she was made to take.
We talk with author Beverley Thomson about her latest book, entitled Antidepressed: A Breakthrough Examination of Epidemic Antidepressant Harm and Dependence.
MIA’s withdrawal pages are meant to provide resources, research findings, and personal stories relevant to making informed choices about withdrawing from psychiatric drugs.
Access Denied: Victims of Prescribed Harm Are Abandoned by Psychiatry
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The United States spends more money on healthcare than any other developed nation in the world. Yet, we have experienced an observable and exponential rise in poor mental health outcomes, disability rates, and suicide over the past several decades.
Robert Whitaker’s
Anatomy of An Epidemic provides the world with alarming statistics that cannot be ignored. The rise in the number of disabled mentally ill has been especially pronounced since 1987, the year that Prozac, the first of the “second-generation” psychiatric drugs, hit the market. The number of adults on SSI or SSDI due to mental illness has risen from 1.25 million in 1987 to more than 4 million today.