Join Renegade Psych today for Part 1 of my conversation with psychologist Roger McFillin, discussing the pitfalls of the American mental health system.  Dr. McFillin created the internationally popular podcast, Radically Genuine, and Founder of the Conscious Clinician Collective, working to cultivate a community where individuals and families engage with ethical mental health specialists and all healthcare professionals dedicated to upholding the principles of informed consent, medical freedom, and respect for personal autonomy.  In this episode, we discuss putting too many kids on psychiatric medications and pathologizing so many normal aspects of human development, especially considering very questionable safety and efficacy data of many psych drugs.  We also talk about how and where the anti-psychiatry movement goes too far, emphasizing that some individuals DO NEED biologic treatments, but big pharma preys on medical school curriculums, trying to push the narrative that so many more individuals NEED biologic/medication treatment, when there are so many effective and cheap natural remedies for so many of our problems.  We openly discuss the flawed SSRI antidepressants, and reference their many failed, or negative, trials, as well as the manipulation of data pervasive across several SSRI makers clinical trials.  Roger and I are tired of big pharmaceutical interests and their government regulators blatantly LYING to us about the safety and effectiveness of the treatments they promote, so we decided to have a conversation about it!  Enjoy!

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