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

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Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? It was also then that I started taking quetiapine (Seroquel) in addition to citalopram for a better night’s sleep. When I did manage to taper off a bit, I felt an immediate improvement in my health.

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When the Help Becomes Part of the Problem

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I was asked for my ID, insurance, and other things that hospital staff typically ask of a patient. She ended the conversation by telling me that I could ask the staff for more sleeping medication if I needed it and that she’d see me the following day. Not a single wrinkle nor oil stain from lunch was in sight.

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Stealing My Mother From Me: The Horrors of Conservatorship

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I was not ready for this, as I was so exhausted, and I asked her to call back after I had a few hours of sleep. Please, I told her, I need a bit of sleep before I drive her there, as the hospital was some 110 miles away. I told them I had a POA health directive for her, and I’d be there in the morning. She called again.

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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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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] What saved her was that her private insurance ran out.