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Don’t Include Involuntary Commitment as a Treatment Tool in Seattle

Mad in America

The JLECBH Charter indicates that it is [e]establishing an anticipated inventory of future services and supports with a specific emphasis on prevention, early intervention, and home or community-based capacity designed to reduce reliance on emergency, criminal legal, crisis, and involuntary services (emphasis added ) , among other actions.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

Mad in America

I n Part 1 , I looked at the longer-term inefficacy of ‘maintenance treatment’ with antipsychotics, and also at some ‘disappointing’ outcomes for ‘early intervention in psychosis’ (EIP). Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

Mad in America

I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital.” They recommend that treatment for psychosis, which traditionally has avoided trauma-related work, incorporate approaches that directly address traumatic experiences.

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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

Mad in America

I was still under the “care” of the Early Intervention Service as an outpatient but after my treatment in hospital I didn’t want my life to be intervened in by mental health professionals. I believed that having children when I knew I had a severe mental illness was the most hatefully selfish thing I could ever have done.

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The State of Mental Health in U.S. Communities: Insights from NACCHO Behavioral Health 360

Credible Mind

CredibleMind, under Van Brunts leadership, provides organizations like employers, health plans, hospitals, and health departments with a mental health information system designed to promote emotional wellbeing and mental health.

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The Connection Between ‘Bipolar Disorder’ and Migraine: Unraveling the History of a Family Line

Mad in America

Looking back, I think my friends did the only thing that they thought could help — having an intervention and convincing me to voluntarily admit myself to the hospital. The one helpful thing that they did was they referred me to an early intervention psychosis program in the state of Oregon.

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Intermountain Health and CredibleMind Offer Mental Health Resources and Tools

Credible Mind

Rethink Mental Health Intermountain Health and CredibleMind Offer Mental Health Resources and Tools Customized mental wellbeing platform to be integrated and offered community wide to boost health equity, promote early intervention, and streamline care access SAUSALITO, Calif. and SALT LAKE CITY, Utah CredibleMind, Inc.,