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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. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report. It’s clear South Africa is in crisis.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD. Kelly Brogan , a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, reports significant concerns about brexanolone.

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Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s Tale

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O verwhelmed by despair and feeling like a shell of myself, I made a decision in August of 2021 that still haunts me. One was for anxiety, one was for sleep, one was to help my heart rhythm for panic attacks—something for everything I described and couldn’t understand was happening to my body. I was tired of fighting. My New Identity?

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

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Additional rules were adopted in November 2021 that required #988 to also be available by text. Vibrant Says… Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant) is described as “one of the nation’s leading mental health organizations.” But never have I ever ‘secret shopped’ anything in the ‘mental health’ world before.

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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. The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] 51] Can anything be worse than this in healthcare?

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Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy

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When she was 42, there were provincial healthcare cutbacks. But when she came off Clozaril, she struggled to sleep. Normally, she sleeps 10 hours. I think the lack of sleep triggered the mania. Combined with the lack of sleep, it turned into mania. upset that she couldnt sleep despite taking three clonazepam.