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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

Mad in America

From the safety of ones surroundings to access to proper nutrition, sleep, and social stability, the circumstances of life have a lasting biochemical effect on the brain. Theyre more likely to develop heart and lung diseases, cancers, and other health issues. Psychiatry, rather than challenging these constructs, reinforces them.

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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

Mad in America

I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. If you struggle mentally, it does not mean that you are ill. It is psychiatry’s view of what mental problems are and how they arise which in itself is pathological. The author, Erik Rudi.

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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

Mad in America

According to psychiatrists, the suicidal person is suffering from a sickness of the mind: their “mental illness” is making them a threat to themselves! Pesky “mental illness.” The usefulness of this construct is almost never questioned by the mainstream, taken as fact because “experts” deem it so.

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Assessing Community Mental Health Programs in India: Insights from Task-Shifting in Kerala

Mad in America

It was written by the MISA news team to provide insight into community mental health initiatives in India. A 2020 study published in Medical Anthropology investigates the realities of community mental health initiatives like task-shifting in India. Kerala is uniquely positioned in the Indian mental health system.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

Mad in America

Psychology has become a giant, its terms and constructs now part of the cultural lexicon, and yet it is one with clay feet. For the highly rational and deeply divided Ivan from The Brothers Karamazov , this death-in-life is revealed to him in a dream where it is as though he is awake in his sleep.

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7 Daily Habits To Help Reduce Stress

The London Psychiatry Centre

Stress is not a mental health problem in and of itself. But too much stress or stressors improperly managed can lead to mental (and physical) health issues. Stressors are the things in our lives that could conceivably cause stress (for example money worries, work deadlines or a family members ill health).

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TV Series "Shrinking" S2 — Is Therapy Really Like This? (Part 1)

Zencare

Welcome to a new blog format! Note that this blog post is full of spoilers youve been warned! As for Alice, I never understood the panic attack to sleep with your best friends summer fling pipeline, but man is it sticky I hope Alice can deal with the consequences that will come along with this.