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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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Stealing My Mother From Me: The Horrors of Conservatorship

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Guardianship and the legal system stole her from me. 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. I was not ready for this, as I was so exhausted, and I asked her to call back after I had a few hours of sleep.

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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.” Given that the patient is in severe distress, he is unlikely able to satisfy all of the institutional requirements (waking/sleeping on time, attending groups, engaging politely with staff etc). As such, we see Derrida’s strange paradox.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. Admitting a female patient would require someone to stay with her.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles.

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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

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And as we later found out, only 46% of the kids who died by suicide even had a known mental health problem. But I am still confused by what happened with the teen train track suicides in Palo Alto—first in 2009-2010, again in 2013-14, and yet again in 2015-16. Sleep hygiene can be used to ensure that that goal is met.

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

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Our brain is not a computer, and our heart is not a pump, though the materialistic world view is pretty good at convincing us to believe we are devoid of Spirit, the divine creative part of us which is never wounded and if not eclipsed by legal or illegal substances, is able to always make a choice. Though, naturally, we can feel a victim.