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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, 1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death. 6 In hospital records and coroners’ reports, deaths linked to prescription drugs are often considered to be from natural or unknown causes.

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Stealing My Mother From Me: The Horrors of Conservatorship

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A long saga begins It all started the first week in April of 2015, the day after my mother and I took a trip to Salinas, KS, to pick up a grandfather clock. At one point, the counselor called back and indicated a hospital would take her. I was told she would be taken directly to the hospital. She called again. No return calls.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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2] A 2015 “State of the Art review” in the BMJ claimed that “Evidence supports specific psychotropic drugs to reduce the risk of suicide.” [3] noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder.

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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

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Such patients have enough social and mental quirks to merit permanent custodial care.” I think we can gain some insight from Jacques Derrida’s work on hospitality. Derrida begins his study with an etymological analysis of the word “hospitality.” ” There are many interesting implications of this paper.

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Letting Go of Lithium

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My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. I started talking fast, coming up with ideas and creative projects and I stopped sleeping. On the drive back from the hospital I found out that we had evacuated our home due to black mold.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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The residents, most of whom were either born in Gujarat, or had somehow ended up in Gujarat, had been referred to this Center by hospitals, various non-governmental organizations, or simply arrived here by word-of-mouth. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar.

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Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT

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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. Her hospitalizations started in 2010, less than a year after her book was published and before her planned NY Times interview. Forgetting.