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A Remarkable Feat: A Psychiatric Patient Changed the Law on Restraints

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He entered a settlement with the Ministry of Health in December 2021, which obliged the government to amend the Psychiatry Act, so that the rights for psychiatric patients subjected to belt fixation were improved. And he insisted that the government should ask the National Board of Health to draw up an action plan for autism.

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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

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It all started in 2014, less than a year after my honorable discharge from the Army, and shortly after returning home from Afghanistan, where I’d served as an Apache helicopter mechanic. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. As a result of stopping the Prozac my sleep schedule was destroyed.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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He has worked with drug addicts for decades, and, like other psychiatrists who have experience with both legal and illegal drugs, 135 he says that it is generally much easier to stop heroin than to stop a benzodiazepine or an SSRI because the abstinence symptoms with heroin disappear rather quickly. 609 Progress is very slow.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.