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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Joey developed akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and dystonia around 2021. This comprehensive analysis highlights the urgent need for reform in mental healthcare, advocating for a more humane and context-sensitive approach to treatment and support. No one could tell him what it was.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report. In 2022 South Africa took the second-lowest position, with the UK ranking worst.

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

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Even more concerning is the potential for this trend to be exported to non-Western cultures, as has happened with the diagnostic model under the much-criticised Movement for Global Mental Health. Mad World: the politics of mental health. The consequences for assessment and therapy were described in Part 3.

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Beyond Greenspaces and Mental Health: The Power of the Wild

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For my MSc in Global Mental Health and Society, my dissertation attempted to explore human-nature relationships by studying urban greenspace at the intersection of land management, public healthcare, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030.