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The American Medical Establishment Didn’t Discover A Mental Health Crisis, It Created One, by Breccan F. Thies – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Breccan F. Thies, The Federalist, May 06, 2026

Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. As an investigative journalist, he previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.

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Author Breccan F. Thies profileWASHINGTON, D.C. — The American medical establishment has been working for over 100 years to fabricate a mental health crisis, but with contemporary perceptions of depression and sadness at all-time highs, coupled with prescription drug use run rampant, they may have created a real one.

An enormous amount of Americans are diagnosed with some form of mental illness, invariably leading them to be prescribed intense regimens of drugs that manufacturers and doctors claim will resolve the issues.

However, as many experts at the MAHA Institute’s Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit on Monday noted, outcomes for long-term use of common medications like Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) or benzodiazepines, are often more negative than the underlying reason patients were given them in the first place: increased suicidal ideation, more intense depression, a strong correlation with tendency toward violence (e.g. school shooters), and much more. …