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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. That has not happened.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

I am a 41-year-old resident of Newington since 2010, though I grew up in Middletown. A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). The bill would also increase the maximum duration of patients written consent from 30 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep.