Aging and mental health Document Legal 
Mad in America
OCTOBER 8, 2024
CDC, Suicide Prevention Resource Center, National Council on Aging). The highest overall rate was for males aged 75+. These include mental health care professionals, primary care physicians, emergency rooms, psychiatric wards/hospitals, law enforcement. One in four suicide attempts resulted in death.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 5, 2023
He entered a settlement with the Ministry of Health in December 2021, which obliged the government to amend the Psychiatry Act, so that the rights for psychiatric patients subjected to belt fixation were improved. Silas had autism and came into contact with the psychiatric system at a very young age.
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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.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Court documents revealed that, in 1999, two such US psychiatrists, Charles Nemeroff and Alan Schatzberg, published a psychiatry textbook that was ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them. 7 These people are highly effective drug pushers.
Mad in America
MAY 31, 2024
Guardianship and the legal system stole her from me. But I was doing my best to love and assist my aging mother with whatever aid I could find, and I had to take this seriously. I told them I had a POA health directive for her, and I’d be there in the morning. What a joke the legal system is. Consider my mother’s story.
Mad in America
MARCH 9, 2024
The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.
Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2025
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). Of the 4,041 patients who entered the trial, only 108 had remitted and then stayed well and in the study to its one-year end, a documented stay-well rate of 3%.
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