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Irish Orgs. Pledge to Adopt ‘Human Rights-Based Approach’ to Mental Health Care

Mad in America

The launch coincided with a new report on the use of restraints and seclusion on mental health patients, which shows that episodes of physical restraint and the numbers undergoing physical restraint have continued to decrease since 2019. ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Irish Orgs.

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Construction Set to Begin on Downtown Mental-Health and Housing Development

Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

An innovative mixed-use project that will bring 34 units of affordable housing along with on-site health-care services to downtown Santa Barbara is set to begin construction after several years in the planning stages.

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How I Learned to Safely Taper off Psychiatric Drugs, and You Can Too

Mad in America

I t was May 21 st , 2019, when I woke up in a strange hotel-like room drenched in sweat, fully clothed with a winter jacket on and feeling absolutely terrible. When tapering off a psychiatric drug, you need realistic information, acknowledgement of the severity of the experience, constructive advice, and hope.

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Sanctuary Centers to Break Ground on New Mental Health Facility in Downtown Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

An innovative mixed-use project that will bring 34 units of affordable housing along with on-site health-care services to downtown Santa Barbara is set to begin construction after several years in the planning stages.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

The finding supports results of a 2019 study that found a higher risk for dementia in those 55 and older with cumulative exposure to strongly anticholingeric medication, especially antidepressants. Paroxetine has the strongest anticholinergic activity of any SSRI. I feed them information from my explorations, and they feed me.

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

From the Spanish flu in 1918 to Covid-19 in 2019, life expectancy has doubled. DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. Both paradigms are bound by the requirements of the scientific method. Scientific research has verified the value of a biological/medical orientation for physical illnesses.

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Depression as a Loss of Heart

Lawyers with Depression

He died in 2019. If we construct elaborate systems of defenses to buffer us from reality, this is only testimony to the raw, tender quality of the open mind and heart underlying them. If we can sharpen our awareness, then we can catch ourselves in the act of constructing these stories and so begin to see through them.