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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 reasons for the nations poor mental health are multifaceted and difficult to resolve, however.

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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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Stop Using Antidepressants Except for “the Most Severe Depression,” Experts Say

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The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on depression treatment are even more firm: “Antidepressant medications are not needed for mild depression,” according to the WHO. They can’t solve poverty or poor housing, or right the wrongs of inequality or discrimination, or resolve any other well-evidenced social determinant of poor health.

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America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (2022)

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.” Adolescent Depression & COVID-19 In OctoberDecember 2020, almost 1 in 5 adolescents (18%) perceived that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected their mental health “quite a bit or a lot,” and an additional 51% perceived “a little or some” negative effect on their mental health.

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

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And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder. But the promised gains never materialized.

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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

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His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022. You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience.

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Beyond Pills: UK Parliament Must Support Social and Psychological Services Instead

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M ost people in this room will have experienced, at some point in their life, poor or very poor mental health. And around half of those who’ve suffered a mental health problem will, have at some point, consulted the NHS for support. million in 2022/23, and these figures are set to continue to rise.