Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

T wo years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 300-page document titled “ Guidance to Community Health Services ” that called for a paradigm shift in psychiatric care, with the biomedical model replaced by one that promoted “Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches.” The 2021 WHO report echoed that sentiment.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Joey developed akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and dystonia around 2021. Joey experienced akathisia from drugs prescribed for anxiety and he sadly died on January 14th 2024. Carly tells that Joey was on almost thirty different medications between 2015 and 2024. No one could tell him what it was.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

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. Her mother Patricia has been diagnosed with bipolar I and is currently in hospital. The nurses laugh, she tells me.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

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. London: Pluto Press. Capitalist Realism. Ropley: Zero Books. Johnson, M.

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