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

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Calling it ‘side effects’ is an astronomical understatement; my experience is that nothing can make you more mentally ill than a psychiatric drug. At nine months clean from narcotics, I was sleeping 16 hours a day and was fat, sick, and felt like I was dying inside. I was simply compensating. I didn’t, but that’s how it felt.

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

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It was written by the MISA news team to provide insight into community mental health initiatives in India. A 2020 study published in Medical Anthropology investigates the realities of community mental health initiatives like task-shifting in India. Kerala is uniquely positioned in the Indian mental health system.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.