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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

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The author, Erik Rudi, voluntarily relinquishes the authority of being a “psychologist” and “healthcare professional.” I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. The author, Erik Rudi. Psychologists cure nothing.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. Drugs like mirtazapine improve appetite and sleep; this is a tonic effect.

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Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

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Little did it know that this incident would alter the course of the nation’s approach to mental health care. For centuries, this dargah had attracted pilgrims from diverse faiths, all drawn by the belief in the shrine’s miraculous powers to cure mental ailments brought on by evil spirits, djinns , and black magic.

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Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands

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Recovery activists and Black Panthers in the 1970s experimented with ear points to arrive at a simple procedure that community health workers could safely apply it in underserved areas of the world. Acudetox arrived here to the Mescalero reservation in 2001.