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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. Joey developed akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and dystonia around 2021. That has not happened. Ideology and economic interests furnish the explanation for this resistance.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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Thanks to a variety of therapies and social factors, I had managed to develop a positive self-image and resilience that made life truly worth living again. But I was so disrupted by the withdrawal symptoms that I could not cope with visiting the vet and I became terribly overwrought. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.