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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

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A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. By 2022, it had jumped to 45 million. No lettersbefore or after my name. Im a parent advocate, sharing my sons story because hes not here to tell it himself.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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In 2022 South Africa took the second-lowest position, with the UK ranking worst. The most recent local national survey , published in 2022, concluded that 25% of South African adults were likely depressed and that close to one-fifth suffered from anxiety. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report.

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Mental Health Staff Reluctant to Support Service Users in Tapering Antipsychotics, Study Finds

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The findings were concerning: despite the increasing debate surrounding the balance between benefits and treatment-related side effects of long-term antipsychotic maintenance, many healthcare professionals remain hesitant to support tapering efforts. This often leaves the difficult task of tapering medications to the service user alone.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. Less publicized in 2022 was another powerful discrediting of psychiatry’s neurobiological disease model.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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11] A 2022 Lancet seminar was yet another proof that psychiatry has degenerated to a point of no return. 51] Can anything be worse than this in healthcare? Mad in America 2022;June 1. [14] The psychiatrists even had the audacity to call their lethal advice “evidence-based strategies.” Psychother Psychosom 2019;88:373-4. [12]

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I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House

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In October, 2022, I had the opportunity to attend #CRISISCON in Kansas City, Missouri, and listen to a plenary presentation from Vibrant administrators about how great everything was going. Yet, as I contemplated the heavy Vibrant presence at CrisisCon 2022, I decided to do a little ‘shopping’ on my own. Sueanne was my first.