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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

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Such patients have enough social and mental quirks to merit permanent custodial care.” Given that the patient is in severe distress, he is unlikely able to satisfy all of the institutional requirements (waking/sleeping on time, attending groups, engaging politely with staff etc). As such, we see Derrida’s strange paradox.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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He has worked with drug addicts for decades, and, like other psychiatrists who have experience with both legal and illegal drugs, 135 he says that it is generally much easier to stop heroin than to stop a benzodiazepine or an SSRI because the abstinence symptoms with heroin disappear rather quickly. 609 Progress is very slow.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. Admitting a female patient would require someone to stay with her.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. In 2020, Hjelmeland et al. The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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Much as the court-watching movement shines a light on the unjust workings of the criminal-legal system , Shield activists show up to virtual hearings like Russell’s as witnesses to the injustices of the civil commitment system. Why does a religious organization have legal rights over a man’s life and body in a supposedly secular state?”

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Over-stressing Stress: American Psychological Association Report Omits Oppression

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This was a follow-up to a similar report in 2020. For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. The same age group reported an increase in mental illness from 31% to 45%, although the highest rate of 50% was reported in the age group of 18 to 34.

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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.