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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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Its basically legal speed, and it can have some really bad effects. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information. Its an amphetamine.

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Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

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The topic of mental health is on the public’s mind, whether it’s the popularizing of therapy speak, the increased attention paid to severe mental illness and homelessness, or pop psychology advice on TikTok. This scenario in public psychiatry settings is, unfortunately, a familiar one.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays.

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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

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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. and of course a host of pharmaceutical drugs.

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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

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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.” This can be due to abuse, homelessness, loss of sleep, or other factors.) They use state-sanctioned mechanisms of violence to promote “mental health.”

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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He has worked with drug addicts for decades, and, like other psychiatrists who have experience with both legal and illegal drugs, 135 he says that it is generally much easier to stop heroin than to stop a benzodiazepine or an SSRI because the abstinence symptoms with heroin disappear rather quickly. 609 Progress is very slow.

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One Wife’s Story of Her Husband’s Struggles with Depression in Law School

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True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. She has grown into a more compassionate and well-rounded Certified Health Education Specialist and Mental Health First Aid provider from her experiences with her husband’s mental health issues.