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World Bipolar Day 2025: Breaking the Stigma

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Despite the millions affected worldwide, misconceptions and societal stigma often prevent individuals from seeking the treatment and support they need. World Bipolar Day 2025 is a call to action, an opportunity to educate, support, and empower those living with bipolar disorder. How to Get Involved in World Bipolar Day 2025 1.

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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.

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Support for Women at LightWork Therapy: Empowering Mental Health

Lightwork

The Importance of Community in Women’s Wellness Women thrive in supportive communities where shared experiences create powerful bonds of understanding and healing. At LightWork, we’ve seen how community support can transform lives through our partnership with SHE RECOVERS Community.

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Beyond Paternalism or Abandonment in Mental Health Care: An Interview with Neil Gong

Mad in America

However, there’s another aspect of freedom, which involves ensuring that people have the capacities and resources, such as education, healthcare, and safety, to act freely. The idea was to release some prisoners who were incarcerated for drug offenses into the community and build up a community support system.

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Maryland Enacts a “Draconian” Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program

Mad in America

Yet, in many of America’s underfunded and under-resourced community-based systems, it is often impossible for people to access care until and unless they are in a crisis. Proponents of court-ordered treatment also frequently argue that it is voluntary.