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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Mad in America

At this time, I also needed to pay for my second-year master’s programme and there was no money so I thought I would drop out, but God used someone to provide for me and I was able to pay and conclude my master’s programme in 2013. The pastor prayed for me and referred us to a hospital by giving us the contact of a psychiatric nurse.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. Similar results were found in an RCT done by Lex Wunderink, reported in 2013 in JAMA Psychiatry.