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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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For these residents, their ART booklet, provided by the local ART center is their only legal identity, which makes availing of any form of government mandated “care” other than their dose of antiretroviral medication difficult, as all such facilities now require possessing a national identity document (the AADHAR card). and Trundle, C.

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

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But by the end of 2018, life started to become overwhelming. I was a shell of my former self, unable to think, staring off into space; all while trying my best to care for my family. I began talk therapy and peer support programs, and started holistic treatments such as meditation.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year. As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature. There can even be a legal dimension in which a doctor is held culpable if he contravenes a guideline.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Despite all this, STAR*D’s “nearly 70% recovery” rate has not only been trusted and reported by the mainstream media but taught to psychiatry students, including in the 2018 textbook 50 Studies Every Psychiatrist Should Know. Several classic studies indicate that depressed people actually deceive themselves less than nondepressed people.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.

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Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories

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The new drug application for MDMA-AT submitted by MAPS would have allowed MDMA legal use solely within MAPS’ proprietary psychotherapy protocol and only for individuals with a PTSD diagnosis. Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant.