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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. Her mother Patricia has been diagnosed with bipolar I and is currently in hospital. and 29%, respectively.

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Soon after mentioning these experiences to my local doctor and the minister of the church I attended, I was certified insane and involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Despite my best efforts, however, I was in and out of psychiatric hospitals for short stays on many occasions over the next fourteen years.

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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.

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