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ANMH Commends us surgeon general’s Advisory on youth mental health Crisis

ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH)

Washington, DC ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH), a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding access to mental health services and supports, fighting mental and behavioral health stigma, and enhancing health equity, commends the U.S.

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Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT

Mad in America

Linda Andre spent the last eight years of her life institutionalized at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where she died by suicide this month at age 63. In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

Mad in America

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.