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In the US, ‘Mental Health Treatment’ Can Be a Death Sentence

Mad in America

. ‘The process can involve being strip-searched, restrained, secluded, having drugs forced on you, losing your credibility,’ said UCLA professor of social welfare David Cohen in a 2020 statement about his research on involuntary commitment.

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Antipsychotics Lead to Worse Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis

Mad in America

This latest study builds on Bergström’s previous work, particularly a 2020 study that looked at cumulative exposure to antipsychotics for all patients with first-episode psychosis over 19 years. After their analysis, all of their results remained the same, indicating that the finding was not due to confounding by indication.

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Canadians Without Life-Threatening Diseases Are Being Encouraged to Consider Suicide

Mad in America

The risk of medical practitioners recommending MAID as a cost-cutting measure to alleviate strain on the health care system is unsettling, as suggested by a 2020 analysis estimating potential savings of $66 million annually in health care costs.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

Mad in America

For Matt, the silver lining of Covid and the pandemic in 2020 allowed him to work from home, which truly saved him. This brought me to Mad in America in early 2020, where I scoured the website for support groups and discovered the parents support group. While Matt seemed better for a few days, he soon slid back to barely functioning.

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The FDA Warned an Asthma Drug Could Induce Despair. Many Were Never Told.

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The agency had flagged the 2020 warning label, known as a ‘boxed warning,’ to physicians’ groups, but it had not required that doctors be educated about the drug’s side effects.

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What does it mean to be diagnosed with ADHD?

Critical Psychiatry

The charity ADHD UK was founded in 2020. He was central to the Jeremy Corbyn movement. He feels as though he has been held back by his ADHD, and obtained this diagnosis over a year ago (see his YouTube video ).

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

Mad in America

Then, on February 18 th , 2020, my girlfriend at the time discovered a Facebook group called “ Lyrica Survivors.” This support group gave me the motivation and the knowledge to summon the courage to start my Lyrica taper on March 9 th , 2020. It was a 10½ month taper, and I reached zero milligrams on January 19 th , 2021.