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“Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown

Mad in America

’ O’Sullivan suggests that for recovery, community support is needed, including ‘…a community that can tolerate imperfection and failure, and which has the humility to put aside its vested interests.’ Worse still, the patients may find themselves in battles with the medical establishment.’

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Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead

Mad in America

Instead, resources should be focused on voluntary mental health care, services and community support that people desperately need and often cannot access.” An evidence-based approach clearly shows that the reliance on detention, force and coercion over the past two decades has not led to better outcomes.

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Irrational Polypharmacy: How Integrated Mental Health Treatment Can Help

Mad in America

Our practice recognizes that a person’s maladaptive behavior and emotional dysregulation is closely related to the individual’s experiences and is maintained by dysfunctional family dynamics, lack of community support and unhealthy interpersonal relationships.

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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Mad in America

Community support workers and peer support workers had a supervisor who carried out activities in delivering the intervention. We have concluded our pilot intervention which is currently going through evaluation. We partnered with indigenous Not-for-Profit organizations to implement our pilot intervention.

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

Mad in America

Suppose exercise is constrained by co-morbidities; and behavioral activation is unrealistic due to life circumstances; and peer and community support is limited; and fish oil is not regarded as a sufficiently robust intervention.

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The Weight of the World: Understanding Anxiety Deeply

The Anxiety Guy

Community support for anxiety sufferers daily. Heres how: Daily Surrender Sessions ( somatic tracking and letting go meditations on YouTube ). A comprehensive anxiety recovery program focusing on subconscious reprogramming. Give yourself permission to take it slow and steady.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. For Illich, the iatrogenesis of modern medicine is clinical when harm to individuals results specifically from medical treatment.