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Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2025
R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. In 2023 there was little change in most countries average scores, but 35.8% The reasons for the nations poor mental health are multifaceted and difficult to resolve, however.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]
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Mad in America
JUNE 17, 2024
My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor. I built a new support system. I have maintained a 4.0
Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. 23,24 In 2013, I estimated that, in people aged 65 and above, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or similar, and depression drugs kill 209,000 people annually in the United States. for those aged 70-79.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
One even boasted about doing so twice, once ‘on behalf of my Asian son from Germany who is the same age as me.’ The two positive themes were ‘symptom reduction’ and ‘sleep’. The fact that we are inviting family and friends to participate was described as ‘Dubious ethically re: reporting on behalf of others.’
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. which was broadcast on September 28, 2023. JAMA Netw Open.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Linda Andre spent the last eight years of her life institutionalized at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where she died by suicide this month at age 63. In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen.
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