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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

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She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. Siem: The reason I asked your age is because I’m 38. Before I researched you, I read your book and thought you were twenty years older. I am 31 years old. So, let’s start there.

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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. 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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Dorothea Buck’s Memoir Tells of the Horrors of Twentieth Century Psychiatry: A “Hell Amidst Bible Quotes”

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I n 1936, at age nineteen, a German woman named Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island. Buck, who lived to the age of 102, fought throughout her life for psychiatric reform. Buck also demanded recognition of the Nazi murders of the disabled and the mentally ill.

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Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider

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J essica Schleider is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health ( www.schleiderlab.org ). On her own and with colleagues, she’s published a wide array of articles and book chapters and co-wrote a self-help book, The Growth Mindset Workbook for Teens.

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When the Help Becomes Part of the Problem

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M y first encounter with the psychiatric system in America was at the age of 18. With each step I took into the building, the kilos of shame I had felt since the age of five built up upon my back. He was amicable, handsome, and seemed to be around the age of twenty-five. I only had the clothing on my body, a folder, and a book.

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Brain Stew: An Interview with Myself

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Most of that was because I’d been adopted at birth, but around age 20 I met my biological mom. Or insurance. CT: Yeah – I drank heavily from age 12 to 20. I found out at a very young age. From age seven to twelve I also got sexually abused. In Illinois, I saw a guy I found in the phone book.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? If you go before 1980, back to DSM-I and DSM-II, those books tell of how psychiatric disorders often are reactions to difficulties in the environment or, say, to stressors in the family. And then there was a paper published in Science by David Rosenhan. But the U.K.