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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. The 2004 national South Africa Stress and Health study , the first large-scale research project of its kind in the country, found the lifetime prevalence of any DSM mental health diagnosis to be 30.3%.

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Beyond Greenspaces and Mental Health: The Power of the Wild

Mad in America

Situating Greenspace and Mental Health What do redwoods, snowdrops, and grassknots have to do with mental health? In sum, I wanted to see what the scholarship and decision-makers had to say, at that point, about greenspace and mental health.