Mad in America
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
T wo years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 300-page document titled “ Guidance to Community Health Services ” that called for a paradigm shift in psychiatric care, with the biomedical model replaced by one that promoted “Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches.”
Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. Efforts at Self-Regulation Being placed in psychiatric hospitals at a rate of almost once per year was greatly disturbing, and it provided me with motivation to get my situation under control.
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Mad in America
DECEMBER 27, 2023
They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — otherwise known as the American dream. My mother passed away in 2001.
Mad in America
MARCH 7, 2024
Documents from the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service state that Patient A – who has since died – was vulnerable due to a variety of mental health conditions Dr Sessa was aware of.
Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2025
In addition to the onsite visits, the survey drew on a variety of documents. You might lose months of memory and some loss of self-esteem. Simply becoming aware of the concept is a start. The survey noted a need for more school classes for defective children. Both OSH and Eastern Oregon State Hospital were visited.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
Thus STAR*D could only document a get-well/stay-well rate at the end of a year of only 3%. This in contrast to the previously mentioned 2006 NIMH-funded study that documented a one-year remission rate of non-medicated depressed patients of 85%. Consider the “symptoms” of what is commonly called “depressive disorder.”
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. As these terms become ubiquitous on social media, they play into the hands of a culture that shuns self-improvement and coping skills.
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