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

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He started working with me at the shop, and I tried to put him on my insurance. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information.

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Children Without Health Insurance in Connecticut

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do not have health insurance coverage. of children (approximately 26,000) did not have health insurance coverage as of 2019 ( visit the CT Health Foundation’s website to learn more about who is uninsured in CT). The post Children Without Health Insurance in Connecticut appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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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. No, she says.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. BetterHelp has been the center of other controversies related to manipulative and deceptive business practices.

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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. What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. 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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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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Especially when you consider that it is now known that women react differently to antipsychotics than men ( de Boer, Brand, Sommer 2022 ). Unfortunately, that stopped when we moved to the far north in April 2022, hoping that the quiet there would give me a real chance for recovery. Their help was gold.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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The current challenge is to begin to integrate these into a viable model of community-based and peer-led mental health support that can function outside of the institutional framework of regulation, licensing, insurance, professional norms, and so forth. Two points need to be made in this regard.