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Motherhood and Depression

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Updated and Verified: October 05, 2024 (News page records significant changes.)

This page contains nonpartisan evidence-based science and education about her metabolism, specifically about Motherhood and Depression. All factual points are fully referenced, with citations to either or both (a) leading scholars and experts in relevant fields, and (b) data and analysis in leading peer-reviewed academic publications in relevant fields.

Psychiatric Diagnosis: Stigma Arbitrary, Unscientific - and Harmful to Her Metabolism

Motherhood And Depression is a psychiatric diagnosis of mental-illness by the ideology of psychiatry, which is a form of slavery. Also, psychiatry is entirely arbitrary and subjective. To decide on a psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatrists and other clinicians rely completely on arbitrary measures based on their own intuition and subjective judgment, according leading psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Insel.1 Thus, psychiatric diagnoses, and the mental-illnesses that they allegedly treat, are unscientific social inventions with no basis in objective reality - biologic or otherwise. According to leading psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), diagnoses for mental-illness are simply social stigmatization.2 One of the best-established psychosocial pathogenic vectors is that stigma harms her metabolism.3 Therefore, it is reasonable to infer that the stigma of psychiatry generally tends to harm her metabolism.

Psychiatry: Big (Arbitrary, Unscientific) Business

Leading clinicians have presented evidence and analysis that would reasonably suggest that the millionaires and billionaires of the psychiatry industry (the psychiatry-government-complex) have made mountains of money by echoing various vague, unhelpful, arbitrary, intuitive, subjective, socially invented, unscientific - abusive - psychiatric diagnoses.4-8

Motherhood And Depression: An Example of Psychiatry's Arbitrary and Unscientific Metabolic Harm

Motherhood And Depression is one example of the metabolic harm that routinely arises by the arbitrary and unscientific ideology of psychiatry. Instead of the unscientific term Motherhood and Depression, one can use the simple, helpful, reasonable, and accurate term sadness.9 Thus, analysis of sadness suffices when considering psychiatry's unscientific, ideological, and abusive diagnosis of Motherhood and Depression.

Criteria to Diagnose Motherhood And Depression

It may seem ridiculous to distill supposed Motherhood and Depression as sadness. Yet, one need only consider some of the unscientific, arbitrary, and abusive criteria to diagnose Motherhood and Depression, according to the ideology of psychiatry:

Obviously, only an unscientific control-freak would use the above criteria to stigmatize a person as having a mental disorder. Equally obvious is that Motherhood and Depression, as defined by the ideologues of psychiatry who define it, amounts to nothing scientific at all: just the arbitrary and abusive stigmatization of women and girls who supposedly suffer from the mental illness of sadness. And again: stigma routinely harms her metabolism.3

Evaluating Credibility: Psychiatrists Who Diagnose Supposed Motherhood And Depression - Are Routinely Suicidal

One would hardly trust a scrawny or obese chef, nor trust a baby sitter whose siblings hate her - because by their works, we know them. Much less can one reasonably trust an ideology whose miserable leaders routinely kill themselves. Psychiatry is just such an ideology. Indeed, the ideology of psychiatry has an ongoing epidemic of suicide - among the psychiatrists, themselves.10 Obviously, no good counseling about how to live and act could ever come from someone who cannot even nearly manage their own life. Thus, it is reasonable to dismiss suicidal psychiatrists as unreasonable, unhelpful - and dangerous.

Summary of Motherhood And Depression's Metabolic Harms

Motherhood And Depression is a psychiatric diagnosis of supposed mental illness. As indicated above: to decide on a psychiatric diagnosis psychiatrists and other clinicians rely completely on arbitrary measures based on their own intuition and subjective judgment.1-2,4-8 Thus, Motherhood and Depression is an unscientific and abusive social stigma with no basis in objective reality - biologic or otherwise. And abusive stigma routinely harms her metabolism.3

Addendum: Motherhood as a Cure for Supposed Depression

Studies show that motherhood massively protects against cancer11 - and that less cancer statistically means less suicidality12: a most insidious form of sadness.13 Thus, one can reasonably infer the following: (a) motherhood statistically reduces the sadness that some people choose to call depression, and (b) motherhood preventing cancer is one of the metabolic mechanisms that statistically prevents the sadness.

References

References

  1. Chauvin JJ, Insel TR. Building the Thermometer for Mental Health. Cerebrum: the Dana Forum on Brain Science. 2018;2018:cer-14-18. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6353119/
  2. Szasz T. The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct. 2nd ed. Harper & Row; 1974.
  3. Tomiyama AJ, Carr D, Granberg EM, et al. How and why weight stigma drives the obesity epidemic and harms health. BMC Med. 2018;16:123. http://doi.org/doi:10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5
  4. Szasz T. The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays. Syracuse University Press; 2007.
  5. Baughman FA. The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes “Patients” of Normal Children. Trafford; 2006.
  6. Horwitz AV, Wakefield JC. The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder. Oxford University Press; 2007.
  7. Paris J. Overdiagnosis in Psychiatry: How Modern Psychiatry Lost Its Way While Creating a Diagnosis for Almost All of Life’s Misfortunes. Oxford University Press; 2015.
  8. Frances A. Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins publishers; 2013.
  9. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th ed; 2013.
  10. Li T, Petrik ML, Freese RL, Robiner WN. Suicides of psychologists and other health professionals: National Violent Death Reporting System data, 2003–2018. Am Psychol. 2022;77(4):551-564. http://doi.org/doi:10.1037/amp0001000
  11. Abortion. Her Metabolism. http://hermetabolism.org/abortion/
  12. Hu X, Ma J, Jemal A, et al. Suicide risk among individuals diagnosed with cancer in the US, 2000-2016. JAMA. 2023;6(1):e2251863. http://doi.org/doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.51863.
  13. Woo HG, Park S, Yon H, et al. National trends in sadness, suicidality, and covid-19 pandemic–related risk factors among South Korean adolescents from 2005 to 2021. JAMA. 2023;6(5):e2314838. http://doi.org/doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.14838

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Her Metabolism: Founder, Treasurer, Secretary, Lead Data Scientist, and Director of Communications and Research

PhD (Thanatology), PsyD (Psychology), DLP (Law and Policy), MPH (Nutrition & Epidemiology), MS (Nutrition), MA (Counseling)

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