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

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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.

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

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B etween 2014 and 2020, the UN published three reports on mental health, prepared by the special rapporteur on the right to health (Dainius Puras). Yet rather than engage with this, the authors strategically construct arguments as though they are unaware of any such issue.

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. In 2020, RNA was coded for Covid-19’s protein, resulting in a drug that stimulated the immune response for Covid-19. Laboratory studies provided the scientific basis for the development of a vaccine. Proteins keep us alive.

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Assessing Community Mental Health Programs in India: Insights from Task-Shifting in Kerala

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A 2020 study published in Medical Anthropology investigates the realities of community mental health initiatives like task-shifting in India. Palliative volunteers even construct shelters and provide food for free, which increases treatment adherence. Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in South Asia (MISA).

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Survivors and Families Working Together For Change: A New Project 

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We all have lived in families of different constructions. Developed by clinical psychologist Joyce Burland and originally offered as a twelve-week program, but updated to a shorter model in 2020, the courses are taught by a NAMI-trained family member of a person diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. Are there any perfect families?

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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This implies that the construct of ‘schizophrenia’ is, contrary to decades of critique and the admissions of DSM committee members themselves, a reliable and valid way of categorising a certain group of people. Leicester: British Psychological Society. Introduction. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. Middleton, H., & Moncrieff, J.

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Madness, Utopia and Revolt: An Interview With Sasha Warren

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Following the George Floyd uprising in 2020, he founded the project Of Unsound Mind to trace the histories of psychiatry, social work, and public health’s connections to policing, prisons, and various disciplinary and managerial technologies.