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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 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.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. Drugs like mirtazapine improve appetite and sleep; this is a tonic effect.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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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. 22] In 2023, the “experts” failed us badly again. The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] The UFO trick is popular in psychiatry.

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

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Vibrant Says… Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant) is described as “one of the nation’s leading mental health organizations.” But never have I ever ‘secret shopped’ anything in the ‘mental health’ world before. Mental health system providers rarely apologize, so that was meaningful even if only a small thing.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. Since 2010, trauma diagnoses among adolescents have surged, rising from about 3% in 2010 to over 8% by 2023.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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I don’t think there’s enough actual oversight, whether civilian or governmental, of the mental health system, and it does a ton of harm.” In a 2005 paper , Gottstein wrote that the “involuntary mental illness system operates largely illegally.” Russell’s request was again denied.

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