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A Remarkable Feat: A Psychiatric Patient Changed the Law on Restraints

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He entered a settlement with the Ministry of Health in December 2021, which obliged the government to amend the Psychiatry Act, so that the rights for psychiatric patients subjected to belt fixation were improved. And he insisted that the government should ask the National Board of Health to draw up an action plan for autism.

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Stealing My Mother From Me: The Horrors of Conservatorship

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Guardianship and the legal system stole her from me. 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. What a joke the legal system is.

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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] 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al. The UFO trick is popular in psychiatry.

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Over-stressing Stress: American Psychological Association Report Omits Oppression

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For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. The same age group reported an increase in mental illness from 31% to 45%, although the highest rate of 50% was reported in the age group of 18 to 34.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Grant, Interrupted: An Introduction and Report Back from Oregon

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I n 2021, the Oregon legislature designated six million dollars to establish and operate four peer respites across the state. In late 2022, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued a public request for grant proposals, and our organization was chosen to create and operate a peer respite in Southern Oregon.