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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

Mad in America

I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. When we did a recent broadcast, we looked at the numbers from 2019: 35.5

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

Mad in America

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. The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] 51] Can anything be worse than this in healthcare? Mad in America 2019;Nov 10. [3]

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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

Mad in America

#988 first appeared in a report to Congress in August 2019 wherein Federal Communications Commission (FCC) staff proposed it as a nationwide, easy-to-remember calling code for people who were suicidal or otherwise in emotional distress. But never have I ever ‘secret shopped’ anything in the ‘mental health’ world before.

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

Mad in America

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. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s Tale

Mad in America

But that day, September 4, 2019, everything changed. One was for anxiety, one was for sleep, one was to help my heart rhythm for panic attacks—something for everything I described and couldn’t understand was happening to my body. I began to finally heal and take my mental health seriously. I deserved to be Meagan again.

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What Works For Wellbeing?- 5 Fundamentals

Doctors In Distress Blog

1,2 There is now much evidence linking burnout to adverse patient safety outcomes, as well as data revealing the financial benefits and efficiency savings when colleagues are well and able to offer more compassionate care [3,4 So whatever your driver is, a thriving, mentally well workforce results in better patient care by all metrics.