Suicide

Evidence that Antidepressants Increase the Risk of Suicide

Open letter to Managing Editor Mary K. Billingsley, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryEditor Dost Öngür, JAMA Psychiatry (previously Archives of General Psychiatry) Call for retraction of three fraudulent trial reports of antidepressants in children and adolescents We, a Professor emeritus and specialist in internal medicine with expertise in clinical trials,

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The Needle and the Damage Done

By Graham Crawford I read an article years ago about research into rare survivors of extreme suicide attempts. Extreme as in jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where more than 1,800 people have plunged to their deaths, and only a few dozen have lived to tell the tale. Researchers discovered through interviews

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Dr Guido Hofmann: ‘This Has Absolutely Nothing to Do with a Virus’

In this video, Dr Guido Hofmann claims “It’s not about a virus” and that the measures taken to combat it are “disproportionate” and akin to a “dictatorship” (his words). Note there is a translation typo, and it should say ‘months’ not ‘month’. This comes shortly after Professional and Managing Director of the Chemnitz Clinic, Thomas

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The Biggest Threat to Children and Young Adults Is Not Coronavirus But Culture Itself, and the Mental-Health Disasters It Feeds Off

By Tom Penn As arm-ageddon continues apace, the Westminster Guild of Magicians must surely by now have ranked Houdini Hancock’s inaudible ‘freedom cry’ as one of the greatest ever stunts performed by a Parliamentary illusionist to date. Remember? The one where he sucker-punched us all fatally in the gut with his false hope? According to

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