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Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community

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And yet I choose to become a mental health nurse. I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. I became a mental health nurse at a psychiatric clinic for children and young adults.

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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

Mad in America

Researchers surveyed 900 patients aged 18 to 64 who were taking antidepressants and categorized them based on their past and present use. The researchers recruited the 900 service users using the Carelon Research Healthcare Integrated Research Database, an administrative claims database for health outcome research.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). “The esteem held by our field in the age of modern medicine rests on the validity of our scientific pursuits.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

Mad in America

They had tortured me for four years, between the ages of sixteen and twenty, first because they suffered under the delusion that my homosexuality was a mental illness, and then by their certainty that my schizophrenia, which they had created, was incurable. ” Where is one better off than with ones family? Anywhere else.