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Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers

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Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant), administrators of 988Lifeline under contract from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has spawned a political lobbying division that’s helping usher state infrastructure investments and legislative initiatives. Where’s the accountability?”

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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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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Leigh, Mother of Melissa

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After Mel passed [in 2017], a woman who was the coordinator of student affairs at her high school sent me a note acknowledging that Mel would have made a big mark in the world. She was never again able to function at the high level she did before, sleeping a lot at first and then developing insomnia afterward.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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In 2017, suicide experts wrote in the Swedish medical journal that antidepressants, lithium, and clozapine prevent suicides, but several of their references were seriously misleading, and I noted that there is no reliable evidence that any drug can prevent suicide. [5] 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al.

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

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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. For Illich, the iatrogenesis of modern medicine is clinical when harm to individuals results specifically from medical treatment.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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A common notice in hospital patients’ charts is: “The patient doesn’t want drugs. In 2020, the UK mental health charity Mind said it signposted people to street drug charities to help them withdraw from depression pills because of the lack of available alternatives. Discharged.” 609 Progress is very slow. What’s the difference?

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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.