HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Anxiety Disorder, Fluoxetine, Drug Discovery
14 Jan 2019
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Jama-articles total prevalence of fsd for women aged 18-59 was 43%. In ontario: pot of money- money comes out of the pot and goes to the physician". Invocated into a culture to be mindful always of the risk of mental health problems. Rapid increase of gad: finally, discovery of pmdd, via sarafem, efforts to sell disease began to work, as a population we run with it, applied to wider categories, shaping what is considered normal and abnormal. 50 psychiatrists used that to their advantage- the relationship with pharma. Thinking: when a person goes to a physician. Assume they will act impartially in patient"s best interest. Imagine out doctors are big in medical knowledge and their objectives. Why is psychiatry so vulnerable: no objective test for external validation of physiatrist disorders. Boundaries of normality and disorder more easily manipulated. Shutting everything else out: promoting a culture, human distress, simple notion of mental disorder that is a consequence of a mental imbalance.
