💊 Antidepressant Critique

Critical investigations into the pharmaceutical industry's promotion of antidepressants, questioning whether these drugs are overprescribed and whether their benefits are overstated.

Antidepressed

by Beverley Thomson • 2021

Antidepressants can create the brain state they're supposed to cure, and quitting is even harder.

4.40

🧠 Antidepressant Harm 💊 Psychiatric Drugs 🏥 Medicalization

Antidepressed 93%

Antidepressants can create the brain state they're supposed to cure, and quitting is even harder.

by Beverley Thomson 2021

4.40

48 ratings

🧠 Antidepressant Harm 💊 Psychiatric Drugs 🏥 Medicalization

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs

by Joanna Moncrieff • 2009

Psychiatric drugs don't fix chemical imbalances. They induce intoxication. Here is how to walk away.

4.36

107

🧠 Critical Psychiatry 🧪 Chemical Imbalance Myth 💊 Psychiatric Withdrawal

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs Summary

A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs 91%

Psychiatric drugs don't fix chemical imbalances. They induce intoxication. Here is how to walk away.

by Joanna Moncrieff 2009

4.36

107 ratings

🧠 Critical Psychiatry 🧪 Chemical Imbalance Myth 💊 Psychiatric Withdrawal

Anatomy of an Epidemic

by Robert Whitaker • 2010

Mental disability rates spiked after psychiatric drugs became standard. The cure may be the cause.

4.15

5k+

🧠 Critical Psychiatry 💊 Psychiatric Drug Critique 🏥 Iatrogenic Harm

Anatomy of an Epidemic 90%

Mental disability rates spiked after psychiatric drugs became standard. The cure may be the cause.

by Robert Whitaker 2010

4.15

5k+ ratings

🧠 Critical Psychiatry 💊 Psychiatric Drug Critique 🏥 Iatrogenic Harm

The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants

by BLACKFORD NEWMAN KATINKA • 2016

One pill for stress, then psychosis: she slashed her arm, believing her children were dead.

3.55

144

💊 Pharmaceutical Corruption ⚠️ Psychiatric Drug Harms 🏥 Medicalization Critique

The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants Summary

The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to Discover the Truth About Antidepressants 90%

One pill for stress, then psychosis: she slashed her arm, believing her children were dead.

by BLACKFORD NEWMAN KATINKA 2016

3.55

144 ratings

💊 Pharmaceutical Corruption ⚠️ Psychiatric Drug Harms 🏥 Medicalization Critique

Desperate Remedies

by Andrew Scull • 2022

For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.

4.09

448

🏥 History Of Psychiatry 🏛️ Institutional Critique 💉 Medical Hubris

Desperate Remedies 89%

For two centuries, psychiatry's cures have caused more harm than the illnesses they target.

by Andrew Scull 2022

4.09

448 ratings

🏥 History Of Psychiatry 🏛️ Institutional Critique 💉 Medical Hubris

La felicidad

by Gabriel Rolón • 2023

The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.

3.94

2k+

🎭 Critique Of Happiness 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis

La felicidad 89%

The happiness mandate is backfiring. A psychoanalyst on why sadness is not the enemy.

by Gabriel Rolón 2023

3.94

2k+ ratings

🎭 Critique Of Happiness 🛋️ Psychoanalysis 🪞 Lacanian Psychoanalysis

The Vitamin Cure for Depression

by Bo H. Jonsson • 2012

A Stone Age brain on a modern diet: the mismatch that looks like depression.

4.00

🧠 Nutritional Psychiatry 🧪 Orthomolecular Medicine 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch

The Vitamin Cure for Depression 89%

A Stone Age brain on a modern diet: the mismatch that looks like depression.

by Bo H. Jonsson 2012

4.00

15 ratings

🧠 Nutritional Psychiatry 🧪 Orthomolecular Medicine 🧬 Evolutionary Mismatch

Saving Normal

by Allen Frances • 2013

The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.

3.85

2k+

🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🩺 Medicalization Critique

Saving Normal 89%

The psychiatrist who chaired the DSM-IV explains why normal human suffering now earns a diagnosis.

by Allen Frances 2013

3.85

2k+ ratings

🏥 Psychiatric Overdiagnosis 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry 🩺 Medicalization Critique

Mad in America

by Robert Whitaker • 2002

Schizophrenia patients recover more often without medication. American psychiatry hides this data.

4.18

3k+

🏛️ History Of Psychiatry 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry ⚠️ Iatrogenic Illness

Mad in America 89%

Schizophrenia patients recover more often without medication. American psychiatry hides this data.

by Robert Whitaker 2002

4.18

3k+ ratings

🏛️ History Of Psychiatry 💊 Pharmaceutical Industry ⚠️ Iatrogenic Illness

Limits to Medicine

by Ivan Illich • 1974

Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.

4.04

612

🩺 Medical Criticism 💊 Medicalization 🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness

Limits to Medicine 88%

Modern medicine has itself become an epidemic. The cure is not more treatment but less.

by Ivan Illich 1974

4.04

612 ratings

🩺 Medical Criticism 💊 Medicalization 🏗️ Social Construction Of Illness

Rethinking Depression

by Eric Maisel • 2011

Sadness isn't a sickness. It's a summons to build a life that means something to you.

3.40

118

🏥 Mental Health Skepticism 📚 Existential Psychology 💭 Meaning Making

Rethinking Depression 88%

Sadness isn't a sickness. It's a summons to build a life that means something to you.

by Eric Maisel 2011

3.40

118 ratings

🏥 Mental Health Skepticism 📚 Existential Psychology 💭 Meaning Making

Drug Dealer, MD

by Anna Lembke • 2016

How doctors created the opioid crisis: not cartels, not street dealers, the prescription pad.

4.00

1k+

💊 Opioid Epidemic 💰 Pharma Industry Critique 🩹 Pain Management

Drug Dealer, MD 88%

How doctors created the opioid crisis: not cartels, not street dealers, the prescription pad.

by Anna Lembke 2016

4.00

1k+ ratings

💊 Opioid Epidemic 💰 Pharma Industry Critique 🩹 Pain Management

The Noonday Demon

by Andrew Solomon • 2000

From personal breakdown to global atlas: the biology, history, and politics of depression.

4.19

16k+

🩺 Clinical Depression 📖 Memoir And Science 💊 Integrated Treatment

The Noonday Demon 88%

From personal breakdown to global atlas: the biology, history, and politics of depression.

by Andrew Solomon 2000

4.19

16k+ ratings

🩺 Clinical Depression 📖 Memoir And Science 💊 Integrated Treatment

The Myth of Mental Illness

by Thomas Szasz • 1961

Mental illness is not a brain disease: it is a language of distress, a tool of control.

3.76

2k+

🚫 Anti-Psychiatry 🏥 Medicalization ⚖️ Psychiatric Ethics

The Myth of Mental Illness 88%

Mental illness is not a brain disease: it is a language of distress, a tool of control.

by Thomas Szasz 1961

3.76

2k+ ratings

🚫 Anti-Psychiatry 🏥 Medicalization ⚖️ Psychiatric Ethics

Darkness Visible

by William Styron • 1990

Depression is not sadness. A Pulitzer-winning novelist on the illness that feels like drowning.

3.99

32k+

🩺 Clinical Depression ✍️ Literary Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir

Darkness Visible 88%

Depression is not sadness. A Pulitzer-winning novelist on the illness that feels like drowning.

by William Styron 1990

3.99

32k+ ratings

🩺 Clinical Depression ✍️ Literary Memoir 🏥 Psychiatric Memoir

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health

by Nathan Filer • 2019

A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.

4.28

3k+

🔍 Psychiatric Critique 💔 Trauma And Psychosis 🏘️ Social Determinants

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health Summary

This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health 88%

A nurse turned journalist traces psychosis to its real roots: poverty, trauma, and racism.

by Nathan Filer 2019

4.28

3k+ ratings

🔍 Psychiatric Critique 💔 Trauma And Psychosis 🏘️ Social Determinants

Psychedelic Medicine

by Richard Louis Miller • 2017

Four illegal molecules can rewire the traumatized brain. The evidence was buried.

4.01

312

🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🩺 Psychiatry Critique ⚖️ Drug Policy Reform

Psychedelic Medicine 88%

Four illegal molecules can rewire the traumatized brain. The evidence was buried.

by Richard Louis Miller 2017

4.01

312 ratings

🍄 Psychedelic Therapy 🩺 Psychiatry Critique ⚖️ Drug Policy Reform

The Meaning of Madness

by Neel Burton • 2008

Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.

3.97

275

💊 Critical Psychiatry 🌌 Existential Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Meaning of Madness 88%

Mental disorders have hidden purposes: windows into meaning, creativity, and transformation.

by Neel Burton 2008

3.97

275 ratings

💊 Critical Psychiatry 🌌 Existential Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Against Depression

by Peter D. Kramer • 2005

Depression is not depth or creativity: it is brain damage, and treating it restores the self.

3.86

520

🏥 Clinical Depression 🧠 Depression Biology 🔄 Neuroplasticity And Mood

Against Depression 88%

Depression is not depth or creativity: it is brain damage, and treating it restores the self.

by Peter D. Kramer 2005

3.86

520 ratings

🏥 Clinical Depression 🧠 Depression Biology 🔄 Neuroplasticity And Mood

Losing Our Minds

by Lucy Foulkes • 2022

Talk about mental health surged. Understanding didn't, so ordinary suffering now gets a diagnosis.

4.07

786

🩺 Medicalization Of Distress 🧒 Adolescent Mental Health 📈 Diagnostic Inflation

Losing Our Minds 88%

Talk about mental health surged. Understanding didn't, so ordinary suffering now gets a diagnosis.

by Lucy Foulkes 2022

4.07

786 ratings

🩺 Medicalization Of Distress 🧒 Adolescent Mental Health 📈 Diagnostic Inflation

What If This Were Enough?

by Heather Havrilesky • 2018

Enforced cheer imprisons you. The bars are Instagram and Whole Foods; the key is giving up.

3.64

3k+

🎭 Cultural Criticism ✍️ Essay Collections 🚫 Anti-Self-Help

What If This Were Enough? 88%

Enforced cheer imprisons you. The bars are Instagram and Whole Foods; the key is giving up.

by Heather Havrilesky 2018

3.64

3k+ ratings

🎭 Cultural Criticism ✍️ Essay Collections 🚫 Anti-Self-Help

The Sober Truth

by Lance Dodes • 2014

Addiction is not a disease, AA works 5% of the time, rehab is a 90k mirage.

3.92

616

🍺 AA Criticism 🧠 Anti-Disease Model 🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy

The Sober Truth 88%

Addiction is not a disease, AA works 5% of the time, rehab is a 90k mirage.

by Lance Dodes 2014

3.92

616 ratings

🍺 AA Criticism 🧠 Anti-Disease Model 🛋️ Psychodynamic Therapy

No More Normal

by Alastair Santhouse • 2025

Four times more mental disorders than 70 years ago. A psychiatrist asks: have we lost normal?

4.04

🧠 Psychiatric Overreach 📈 Diagnostic Inflation 🏥 Medicalizing Distress

No More Normal 88%

Four times more mental disorders than 70 years ago. A psychiatrist asks: have we lost normal?

by Alastair Santhouse 2025

4.04

91 ratings

🧠 Psychiatric Overreach 📈 Diagnostic Inflation 🏥 Medicalizing Distress

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo

by Ian Harris • 2016

Many common surgeries work no better than a fake incision: a surgeon reveals the evidence.

4.16

196

🔬 Evidence-Based Medicine ⚠️ Medical Overtreatment 💊 Placebo Studies

Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo 88%

Many common surgeries work no better than a fake incision: a surgeon reveals the evidence.

by Ian Harris 2016

4.16

196 ratings

🔬 Evidence-Based Medicine ⚠️ Medical Overtreatment 💊 Placebo Studies

Night Falls Fast

by Kay Redfield Jamison • 1999

Mental illness drives nine in ten suicides. One existing treatment cuts that risk nearly ninefold.

4.12

7k+

🧠 Mood Disorders 🛡️ Suicide Prevention 🧬 Behavioral Genetics

Night Falls Fast 88%

Mental illness drives nine in ten suicides. One existing treatment cuts that risk nearly ninefold.

by Kay Redfield Jamison 1999

4.12

7k+ ratings

🧠 Mood Disorders 🛡️ Suicide Prevention 🧬 Behavioral Genetics

Embracing Your Limitations

by Lawrence Mooney • 2022

Self-help feeds on your dissatisfaction. The exit: stop chasing dreams and accept your limits.

3.29

🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🤗 Self-Acceptance 📉 Lowered Expectations

Embracing Your Limitations 88%

Self-help feeds on your dissatisfaction. The exit: stop chasing dreams and accept your limits.

by Lawrence Mooney 2022

3.29

82 ratings

🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🤗 Self-Acceptance 📉 Lowered Expectations

In Emergency, Break Glass

by Nate Anderson • 2022

Nietzsche saw your smartphone coming: the 19th-century antidote to an age of endless scrolling.

3.91

323

🏛️ Applied Philosophy 🔧 Technology Critique 📱 Attention Economy

In Emergency, Break Glass 88%

Nietzsche saw your smartphone coming: the 19th-century antidote to an age of endless scrolling.

by Nate Anderson 2022

3.91

323 ratings

🏛️ Applied Philosophy 🔧 Technology Critique 📱 Attention Economy

How to Be Miserable

by Randy J. Paterson • 2016

Forty everyday strategies for misery, decoded: see which are yours, then do the opposite.

3.99

3k+

🧠 Behavioral Activation 🙃 Anti-Self-Help 🪤 Wellbeing Traps

How to Be Miserable 88%

Forty everyday strategies for misery, decoded: see which are yours, then do the opposite.

by Randy J. Paterson 2016

3.99

3k+ ratings

🧠 Behavioral Activation 🙃 Anti-Self-Help 🪤 Wellbeing Traps

The News

by Alain de Botton • 2014

Modern news breeds panic and distraction. A humanistic guide to staying sane amid the headlines.

3.58

3k+

📰 Media Criticism 🧠 Media Literacy ⚠️ Negativity Bias

The News 88%

Modern news breeds panic and distraction. A humanistic guide to staying sane amid the headlines.

by Alain de Botton 2014

3.58

3k+ ratings

📰 Media Criticism 🧠 Media Literacy ⚠️ Negativity Bias

The Burnout Society

by Byung-Chul Han • 2010

We replaced discipline with achievement, and it didn't set us free. It made us sick.

3.85

31k+

📖 Critical Theory 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🏥 Social Pathology

The Burnout Society 88%

We replaced discipline with achievement, and it didn't set us free. It made us sick.

by Byung-Chul Han 2010

3.85

31k+ ratings

📖 Critical Theory 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🏥 Social Pathology

Breaking Bad and Philosophy

by David R. Koepsell • 2012

A philosophy class uses Walter White to dissect moral rot, freedom, and the American Dream.

3.30

274

🎬 Media Philosophy 📺 Tv Criticism ⚖️ Applied Ethics

Breaking Bad and Philosophy 87%

A philosophy class uses Walter White to dissect moral rot, freedom, and the American Dream.

by David R. Koepsell 2012

3.30

274 ratings

🎬 Media Philosophy 📺 Tv Criticism ⚖️ Applied Ethics

Bright-Sided

by Barbara Ehrenreich • 2009

America demands cheerfulness. It quiets dissent, blames victims, and helped cause the 2008 crash.

3.74

11k+

🚫 Toxic Positivity 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🔬 Pseudoscience Debunking

Bright-Sided 87%

America demands cheerfulness. It quiets dissent, blames victims, and helped cause the 2008 crash.

by Barbara Ehrenreich 2009

3.74

11k+ ratings

🚫 Toxic Positivity 🔍 Cultural Criticism 🔬 Pseudoscience Debunking

The Art of Life

by Zygmunt Bauman • 2008

Getting richer made us shoppers, not happier, and forced endless self-reinvention without ethics.

3.76

872

🧠 Continental Philosophy 🌊 Late Modernity 😊 Happiness Studies

The Art of Life 87%

Getting richer made us shoppers, not happier, and forced endless self-reinvention without ethics.

by Zygmunt Bauman 2008

3.76

872 ratings

🧠 Continental Philosophy 🌊 Late Modernity 😊 Happiness Studies

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

by Thomas Ligotti • 2011

Nature's worst mistake was making you self-aware. The only logical response is to stop reproducing.

4.01

10k+

🖤 Philosophical Pessimism 🚫 Antinatalism 🧠 Consciousness Studies

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race Summary

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race 87%

Nature's worst mistake was making you self-aware. The only logical response is to stop reproducing.

by Thomas Ligotti 2011

4.01

10k+ ratings

🖤 Philosophical Pessimism 🚫 Antinatalism 🧠 Consciousness Studies

Anxiety

by Samir Chopra • 2024

What if your anxiety isn't a disorder, but the feeling of freedom itself?

3.91

522

🧠 Existential Philosophy 🗣️ Philosophical Therapy 🌊 Living With Anxiety

Anxiety 87%

What if your anxiety isn't a disorder, but the feeling of freedom itself?

by Samir Chopra 2024

3.91

522 ratings

🧠 Existential Philosophy 🗣️ Philosophical Therapy 🌊 Living With Anxiety

Forbidden Knowledge

by Terence H. Young • 2023

What your pharmacist doesn't tell you, and why the safest drugs are the least promoted.

💊 Big Pharma 🛡️ Regulatory Capture ⚖️ Medical Ethics

Forbidden Knowledge 87%

What your pharmacist doesn't tell you, and why the safest drugs are the least promoted.

by Terence H. Young 2023

💊 Big Pharma 🛡️ Regulatory Capture ⚖️ Medical Ethics

Ending Medical Reversal

by Vinayak K. Prasad • 2015

Why standard medical treatments from stents to hormone therapy keep getting overturned.

4.36

407

📊 Evidence-Based Medicine 🧪 Clinical Trials 🔍 Overdiagnosis

Ending Medical Reversal 87%

Why standard medical treatments from stents to hormone therapy keep getting overturned.

by Vinayak K. Prasad 2015

4.36

407 ratings

📊 Evidence-Based Medicine 🧪 Clinical Trials 🔍 Overdiagnosis

Against the Machine

by Paul Kingsnorth • 2025

The West lost its soul; a machine grew in the gap, now coming to replace us.

3.95

3k+

🏛️ Critique Of Modernity ⚙️ Technology Criticism 🌳 Spiritual Ecology

Against the Machine 87%

The West lost its soul; a machine grew in the gap, now coming to replace us.

by Paul Kingsnorth 2025

3.95

3k+ ratings

🏛️ Critique Of Modernity ⚙️ Technology Criticism 🌳 Spiritual Ecology

Descriptions and Prescriptions

by Michael R. Emlet • 2017

Psychiatric labels and medications: how to accept the help without worshiping the tool.

4.41

825

🙏 Christian Mental Health 🧭 Biblical Counseling 📋 Psychiatric Diagnosis

Descriptions and Prescriptions 87%

Psychiatric labels and medications: how to accept the help without worshiping the tool.

by Michael R. Emlet 2017

4.41

825 ratings

🙏 Christian Mental Health 🧭 Biblical Counseling 📋 Psychiatric Diagnosis

Industrial Society and Its Future

by Ted Kaczynski • 2024

Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.

3.88

203

📜 Anarcho-Primitivism ⚙️ Critique Of Technology 🌍 Radical Environmentalism

Industrial Society and Its Future Summary

Industrial Society and Its Future 87%

Modern comfort is a trap that erases human purpose. The only escape: abolishing technology.

by Ted Kaczynski 2024

3.88

203 ratings

📜 Anarcho-Primitivism ⚙️ Critique Of Technology 🌍 Radical Environmentalism

El Hombre Light

by Enrique Rojas • 1992

When everything is permitted and nothing matters, a new kind of person emerges: informed and hollow.

3.12

535

🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🧭 Moral Psychology 🛒 Consumerism Critique

El Hombre Light 87%

When everything is permitted and nothing matters, a new kind of person emerges: informed and hollow.

by Enrique Rojas 1992

3.12

535 ratings

🏛️ Cultural Criticism 🧭 Moral Psychology 🛒 Consumerism Critique

Bipolar, Not So Much

by Chris Aiken • 2017

Recurring depression can hide mild bipolar. Learn the signs before antidepressants do more harm.

4.37

400

🌗 Bipolar Depression 📊 Spectrum Psychiatry ⚡ Hypomania Awareness

Bipolar, Not So Much 87%

Recurring depression can hide mild bipolar. Learn the signs before antidepressants do more harm.

by Chris Aiken 2017

4.37

400 ratings

🌗 Bipolar Depression 📊 Spectrum Psychiatry ⚡ Hypomania Awareness

Prozac Nation

by Elizabeth Wurtzel • 1994

At eleven she cut herself, at Harvard she overdosed, then a pill renamed a generation.

3.64

64k+

🧠 Psychiatric Memoir 📖 Confessional Memoir 🩸 Self-Harm And Cutting

Prozac Nation 87%

At eleven she cut herself, at Harvard she overdosed, then a pill renamed a generation.

by Elizabeth Wurtzel 1994

3.64

64k+ ratings

🧠 Psychiatric Memoir 📖 Confessional Memoir 🩸 Self-Harm And Cutting

An Unquiet Mind

by Kay Redfield Jamison • 1995

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

4.06

87k+

🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert

An Unquiet Mind 87%

A clinical psychologist loses her key to the locked ward. She is no longer the doctor.

by Kay Redfield Jamison 1995

4.06

87k+ ratings

🎭 Bipolar Disorder 📖 Psychiatric Memoir 🩺 Patient As Expert

Drug Use for Grown-Ups

by Carl L. Hart • 2021

Why a neuroscientist uses heroin, and why he says we're wrong about drugs.

4.01

5k+

🗳️ Drug Policy ❤️‍🩹 Harm Reduction 🧠 Addiction Neuroscience

Drug Use for Grown-Ups 87%

Why a neuroscientist uses heroin, and why he says we're wrong about drugs.

by Carl L. Hart 2021

4.01

5k+ ratings

🗳️ Drug Policy ❤️‍🩹 Harm Reduction 🧠 Addiction Neuroscience

No One Cares About Crazy People

by Ron Powers • 2017

Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.

3.87

4k+

🏛️ Psychiatric History 📋 Mental Health Policy 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir

No One Cares About Crazy People 87%

Two sons, schizophrenia, and a journalist's investigation into why America jails the mentally ill.

by Ron Powers 2017

3.87

4k+ ratings

🏛️ Psychiatric History 📋 Mental Health Policy 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Memoir

Standpoints

by Svend Brinkmann • 2018

Modernity wants a use for everything. Ten old ideas that refuse to earn their keep.

3.77

787

🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🧠 Existential Philosophy 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

Standpoints 87%

Modernity wants a use for everything. Ten old ideas that refuse to earn their keep.

by Svend Brinkmann 2018

3.77

787 ratings

🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🧠 Existential Philosophy 🏛️ Virtue Ethics

Incompletos

by José Carlos Ruiz • 2023

Why the endless pursuit of happiness leaves us empty, and how deliberate thinking can restore depth.

3.84

141

🌐 Hypermodernity 📺 Media Philosophy 😞 Happiness Critique

Incompletos 87%

Why the endless pursuit of happiness leaves us empty, and how deliberate thinking can restore depth.

by José Carlos Ruiz 2023

3.84

141 ratings

🌐 Hypermodernity 📺 Media Philosophy 😞 Happiness Critique

Why Am I Still Depressed? Recognizing and Managing the Ups and Downs of Bipolar II and Soft Bipolar Disorder

by James R. Phelps • 2006

Your depression might be bipolar. The drugs that should help could be hurting you instead.

4.09

374

🎭 Mood Disorders 🧠 Bipolar Disorder 💊 Depression Treatment

Why Am I Still Depressed? Recognizing and Managing the Ups and Downs of Bipolar II and Soft Bipolar Disorder Summary

Why Am I Still Depressed? Recognizing and Managing the Ups and Downs of Bipolar II and Soft Bipolar Disorder 87%

Your depression might be bipolar. The drugs that should help could be hurting you instead.

by James R. Phelps 2006

4.09

374 ratings

🎭 Mood Disorders 🧠 Bipolar Disorder 💊 Depression Treatment

A Mind of Your Own

by Kelly Brogan • 2016

Your depression may be inflammation in disguise, and antidepressants are making the fire worse.

3.79

3k+

🩺 Functional Medicine 🧠 Women'S Mental Health 🦠 Gut-Brain Connection

A Mind of Your Own 87%

Your depression may be inflammation in disguise, and antidepressants are making the fire worse.

by Kelly Brogan 2016

3.79

3k+ ratings

🩺 Functional Medicine 🧠 Women'S Mental Health 🦠 Gut-Brain Connection

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