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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. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Does psychiatric hospitalization and medicine save the lives of suicidal patients?

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Deadly Prescriptions: New Study Links Antipsychotics to Life-Threatening Risks in Dementia Patients

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This database includes information on diagnoses, prescriptions, lab results, healthcare contacts, and referrals. Additionally, this data can be linked to the UK’s Hospital Episode Statistics database and the Office for National Statistics, providing further details on hospital admissions and mortality.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Sherita, Mother of Tony

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Tony, who lives in Virginia near his mother, lost his speech and eye contact at a very early age, when he received an autism diagnosis. Tony went off prescription drugs in September 2021, when he was released from the hospital with none, though he was on them while being held there.

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Intermountain Health and CredibleMind Offer Mental Health Resources and Tools

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Rethink Mental Health Intermountain Health and CredibleMind Offer Mental Health Resources and Tools Customized mental wellbeing platform to be integrated and offered community wide to boost health equity, promote early intervention, and streamline care access SAUSALITO, Calif.

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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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Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor

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The opening roll of this classic skit: In the Middle Ages, medicine was still in its infancy. The skit conveys some examples of state-of-the-art healthcare in England, circa 1303 A.D.: This also applies to what is now called “mental illness.” Theodoric commented on all the progress Medicine had made by 1303 A.D.,