Across America, more than 76 million people take psychiatric drugs, yet the foundational question of whether a physical illness might be driving their symptoms often goes unasked. A mental health watchdog organization is pressing for a return to diagnostic discipline — arguing that before any psychiatric label is applied or medication prescribed, medicine must first look inward at the body itself. The cases of patients treated for years with psychiatric drugs while harboring undetected brain tumors remind us that the boundary between mind and body is not a wall, but a threshold requiring caref
Mental Health Watchdog Releases White Paper Questioning Antidepressant Prescribing Practices
Patients including a 24-year-old woman with a brain tumor were misdiagnosed with psychiatric conditions and prescribed inappropriate medications, causing harm and delayed proper medical treatment.