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Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill Kelly Patricia O'Meara See book keywords and concepts

Laurie Flynn, Community Voices "Before Their Time: Preventing teen suicide," September 2005. 10 Michael F. Hogan, Ph.D., Chairman, President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, Summary July 22, 2003, Pg-68. " Laurie Flynn, Director, TeenScreen, Columbia University, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions, Congressional Testimony, "Suicide Prevention and Youth: Saving Lives," March 2, 2004 12 Ibid. 13 Laurie Flynn, Community Voices "Before Their Time: Preventing teen suicide," September 2005.

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Teenage and childhood depression is also on the rise, with increased teen suicide rates. The rising incidence of depression in younger age groups has resulted in the coinage of a new phrase, "Agent Blue," as reported in the Atlantic Monthly in December 1986: "More people are becoming depressed and at much younger ages. The ailment is so prevalent that some National Institute of Mental Health scientists privately speculate that an unknown 'Agent Blue' may be spurring its spread.

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U.S. teen suicide rates increased nearly 30 percent from 1980 to 1992. • Black youth are particularly likely to commit suicide when depressed. From 1980 to 1995, the suicide rate for black youths ages 10 to 19 years more than doubled, becoming the third-leading cause of death among blacks.25 • Psychiatric hospitals increased inpatient admissions from 46.2 per 100,000 population in 1969, to over 156 per 100,000 population in 1988, and during the same period of time outpatient additions increased from 12.8 per 100,000 to 51.2 per 100,000.

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In the teen years, this high rate of depression translates into a tragically high number of suicides and attempted suicides. The teen suicide rate has increased threefold since 1960, making it the third leading cause of death among adolescents.20 Eat Fish, Be Happy Hibbeln and his colleagues are now conducting a study to see if omega-3 supplements can relieve depression. A group of depressed patients are being given either placebos or two grams of DHA per day. During the course of the study, they are being closely monitored for changes in mood and serotonin levels.

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The forty-six-year-old teen suicide expert was accused of falsifying data in a $250,000 study of the antidepressant Anafranil (clomipramine), which he was testing for the Basel Pharmaceuticals subsidiary of the $1.25 billion Swiss drug giant Ciba-Geigy to assess its ability to control a different condition, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

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Watch in particular the teen suicide situation!" Representative Case Reports A 43-year-old nutritionist developed severe depression within one week after consuming ten or more glasses of an aspartame soft drink. It subsided when she avoided it. . . only to recur during rechallenge. She wrote: "I was depressed (sad, crying, etc.) for no reason. I was on vacation at the time and having a good time ... I started drinking aspartame on vacation because of thirst... I do professional counseling. My clients (also) have experienced depression and visual problems.

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