No Psychologists Reported Adverse Effects from Treatments

This is an interesting article which was posted in Medium yesterday. Here is the punch line:

I filed a freedom of information request that can be viewed freely online that showed that zero psychologists working within the mental health industry in 2017 reported adverse effects from mental health treatments. I did the same for psychiatrists and in the same year only 31 adverse effects were reported too.

Just shows, once again, that underreporting adverse reactions by health care professionals is a serious problem.

Here may be some reasons why:

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Other reasons may include:

Physicians who are heavily supported by pharmaceutical companies and medical device makers are not forming independent, unbiased decisions. Instead, their brains have been lined with gifts, perks and money, which influences their rose-colored opinions.

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So called health care professionals only care about one thing… $$$.