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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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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).