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When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens

Mad in America

There is a group for collaborative practice and self-education for mental health professionals and trainees. Those groups are not in themselves a form of therapy; rather they offer therapeutic support and education. There are two self-help groups for family and friends in Athens with potentially a third one to come.

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“I Nearly Destroyed Myself Mentally and Physically Working at the Wrong Jobs”

ADDitude

Free Download: 8 Dream Jobs for Adults with ADHD ] Career Ideas from ADDitude Readers People with ADHD told ADDitude magazine about the jobs they liked best. To support our mission of providing ADHD education and support, please consider subscribing. I am a school psychologist.

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ADHD Therapists Share Their Toughest Cases

ADDitude

ADDitude magazine asked practitioners who specialize in ADHD about their clients toughest problems, and the strategies that move them in the right direction. I also work to educate the partner that this is a medical condition and not just the other person forgetting or not seeming to be as interested in things. Here is what they said.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

Mad in America

I have seen this occur in all walks of life and the phenomena has no respect for intelligence, education or economic position in society. I have found these “miracle drug breakthroughs” have in common a consistent pattern, one of which is a major cover story in a national magazine, in this case Time magazine.

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The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes

Mad in America

” It established its own press to publish books that would “provide much public education about the profession.” Newspapers and magazine headlines during the 1980s told of a “revolution” under way in psychiatry. It created a division of publications and marketing to “deepen the medical identification of psychiatrists.”

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

An excellent source of straightforward information on akathisia, including videos and an online course, is MISSD, a medication-induced suicide prevention and education foundation established in the memory of Stewart Dolin, who killed himself in 2010 shortly after being prescribed paroxetine for mild situational anxiety.

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Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s Tale

Mad in America

I rushed to the closet and loaded a magazine into a rifle, terrified that the attackers were coming, that they would force me to choose who in my family would die. This can change—and must change—through education, litigation, and legislation. The nightmare seemed so real that it made me have a waking response to it.