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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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Is the Teaching of Psychology Liberal or Conservative? Yes! (But Mostly It’s Neither)

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Nor is our reporting on mental health disorders and their treatment, how nature and nurture weave the human fabric, or how language develops. Does observing sleep stages promote progressive views? Is analyzing the effects of stress on health a leftist agenda? Is sleuthing how the brain makes the mind values-laden?

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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I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails.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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Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients: Interview with Psychiatrist Swapnil Gupta

Mad in America

She is also a part of the editorial board of the Community Mental Health Journal. Currently, she is working on creating educational resources to help people discontinue psychiatric medications and gathering information on the knowledge and opinions of psychiatrists regarding the discontinuation of such drugs.

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What’s it Like Day-to-Day in Addiction Treatment Rehab?

Clear Behavioral Health

At Clear Behavioral Health, our addiction treatment rehab uses a multi-faceted approach, tailored to everyone’s needs. The Admission Process: Your First Day Upon arrival, youll have your initial assessment where you are asked varying questions about your background, history of substance abuse, and mental health.

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

Mad in America

These and other will-based activities educate and empower individuals in ways that their self-respect, accountability, and autonomy grow. Many a Seeker arrives having spent nights drinking and watching porn, sleeping during the day and unable to work or read. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal.