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Back-to-School Support & Teen Mental Health Treatment: Practical Tips for Parents

Clear Behavioral Health

This can create stressful situations for families, which is why teen mental health treatment programs offer support, so you dont have to manage it alone. Your teens can be supported with skills and treatment to manage school-related stressors and move forward with their education. Call today to start healing.

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Mad in America

The medical profession expressed a global disdain towards these individuals; those diagnosed with a mental health condition were highly stigmatised and considered weak or defective characters. I couldn’t sleep, I felt agitated, my thoughts were going round and round and then I became suicidal. Admittedly I was tired out.

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Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT

Mad in America

In a passionate 2016 letter opposing FDA’s decision to down-classify ECT machines, she wrote: “Now FDA intends to put the ECT device into the same category as an X-ray machine. I first met Linda in January 2016, in an MPC closed ward. At Linda’s request, Dan Fisher interviewed Linda in September 2016.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

What we need more than anything else in psychiatry are withdrawal clinics, with easy and quick access free of charge, and education about the harmful effects of psychiatric drugs, how to stop them, and above all: How to avoid starting them. 609 Progress is very slow. What’s the difference? They won’t admit they got it wrong.

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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery

Mad in America

” I promised him and kept that promise until 2016, when I was coming off Latuda and he prescribed the same opioid. Had I gotten anyone else, they might have dismissed me as drug-seeking or mentally ill. Dr. B ordered a sleep study. He knew it worked for me, and I was so suicidal he had no other option. at a time.

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How Epigenetics Could Revolutionize ADHD Care

ADDitude

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.