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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. In 2022 South Africa took the second-lowest position, with the UK ranking worst. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report. and 29%, respectively. medicines respectively.

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A Psycho-Spiritual Journey

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I used it this way up until early 2022, monitoring my own prodromal symptoms and taking the medication whenever I felt a period of instability building up and then tapering off as soon as possible after the episode had passed.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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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. 2022) A critique of critical psychiatry. Tekin & R. Bluhm (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry (pp.