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.”

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Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

Im in recovery from a lot of family stress, dealing with racism in America, in schools, and in education, and even sexual harassmentall of which impacted my mental health. I walked into school healthy and walked out completely disabled, and that shouldnt happen in an educational system. I dont use substances anymore.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Even more concerning is the potential for this trend to be exported to non-Western cultures, as has happened with the diagnostic model under the much-criticised Movement for Global Mental Health. This appears to be a real, although currently not widespread, possibility, as discussed here.

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