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Note the stated benefit does not make adjustments for the half dozen+ pro-drug flaws*, and biases* in the short term corporate studies.

In meta-analyses of corporate short term studies (the most pro-drug biased* studies available) the benefit of drugs marketed as antidepressants is "mean improvement was 9.60 points on the HRSD in the drug groups and 7.80 in the placebo groups, yielding a mean drug–placebo difference of 1.80 on HRSD improvement scores"(1). In the HRSD ...

What psychiatry means by "antipsychotics are effective"

Note the stated benefit does not make adjustments for the half dozen + pro-drug flaws*, and biases* in the short term corporate studies.

A meta-analysis of short term (around 6 weeks) corporate antipsychotic studies tallied what the studies found was the change in PANSS scores in the "placebo" and drug groups post 2009 and pre 2009.

The change in scores in the drug group minus the change in ...

I had an instance where I strongly disagreed with my therapist's point of view recently. Was hoping I could hash it out here to get some more thoughts.

​Most of you are probably familiar with the concept of cognitive distortions - if not, and you're struggling in any way with mental health, they can be a VALUABLE weapon in your fight for recovery. Mind-reading, minimization, maximization, personalization, fortune-telling, projecting - these are just SOME examples ...

Hi,
I'm a new member, 61, and only 4 months ago it has been suggested to me that my stepmom has NPD.
I've therefore started to read as much as I can on the subject but find the following discrepancies:
She's got lots of friends albeit the ones that get too close end up leaving her
She's very caring to animals
She's generally gregarious in public
She apologises to anyone
As far as the rest ...

So I originally posted on here in August of 2014 trying to find answers for what sort of personality disorder my mom has. To give you all some context, this was the original post:

" I dealt with verbal abuse as a young kid/teen from my mom and could never really figure out what the issue might be. Here is a list of what I went through/now deal with:

Yelling/screamed at my sis/I at times ...

A bit of a trigger warning, I guess since for some people, it's hard to deal with. I know that this is not an easy topic, but it is something I have not been able to cope with yet. It has taken a lot out of me. It's been a few months since. Also sorry for the very long post. I sometimes don't know how to organize my thoughts very well because I was taught ...

Family gathering recently.
My middle sister nearly talked my oldest sister to death on the first day. Machine gun talking the entire day. Unbearable.
Second day I went to the doctor and that day the middle sister was behaving.
Third day, my middle sister was at it again. Machine gun talking, snarky remarks, comments on anything and everything, last word kind of stuff. Forth day pretty much normal.
Fifth day at it again.

It is ...

There have been a lot of studies how people with mental illness are attracted to other who have mental illness.

I was wondering if someone whose parent is mentally ill tends to seek out partners/spouses who are mentally ill?

My mother had an undiagnosed mental illness that may have been schizophrenia and my spouse was diagnosed with bipolar disease.

I have searched and found no studies that looked at this connection, but it seems unlikely ...

Hi,

This is a situation that I run into with my wife.
When we are watching TV together, she sometimes has this habit of rewinding the same part of the show multiple times and it can get irritating and starts to spoil a show for me. However, I won't complain even though I may feel annoyed by it. The rewinding thing is a part of her anxious behavior and her family used to give her ...

Hello, some background:

I'm an ex who was the dumpee. My ex and I had a somewhat healthy relationship that grew from friends into more. The more only lasted about 3 months as i think the more intimate we got the more fearful avoidant she became + more mind games. Due to the weird push/pull for 3 months (one of which she disappeared for 1 month and came back like nothing happened), I too then ...