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

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He started working with me at the shop, and I tried to put him on my insurance. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information.

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Children Without Health Insurance in Connecticut

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do not have health insurance coverage. of children (approximately 26,000) did not have health insurance coverage as of 2019 ( visit the CT Health Foundation’s website to learn more about who is uninsured in CT). The post Children Without Health Insurance in Connecticut appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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

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In 2019 it was, arguably conservatively, estimated that one in six South Africans suffered from anxiety, depression, or substance-use disorders, while fewer than a third of them had access to mental health treatment. No, she says. Theres nobody there. Its just the doctors and the nurses.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. Mad in America 2019;Nov 10. [3] Center for Selvmordsforskning 2019;Dec. [27] They diagnosed psychotic depression and forced her to stay and take a dangerous cocktail of drugs. But her 11-year-old son Oscar knew it was the pills. 2] Whitaker R, Blumke D. BMJ 2015;351:h4978.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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Therefore, in 2019, I decided to get start tapering once again. I tapered off citalopram with tapering strips between October 2019 and January 2020. It seems that doctors are sometimes reluctant to admit the alleged error because of their liability and insurance policies. Monique: So how did you approach tapering off?

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. From the Spanish flu in 1918 to Covid-19 in 2019, life expectancy has doubled. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care.

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Dorothea Buck’s Memoir Tells of the Horrors of Twentieth Century Psychiatry: A “Hell Amidst Bible Quotes”

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Dorothea Buck I first encountered Dorothea Buck in 2019. We have to treat with medication,” he noted, “insurance demands it of us.” Buck also demanded recognition of the Nazi murders of the disabled and the mentally ill. Many of these victims were psychiatric patients gassed between 1939 and 1941 in chambers built into German asylums.