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

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He started working with me at the shop, and I tried to put him on my insurance. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse. 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.

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

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It’s a piecemeal, parcelized collection of public institutions, non-profits, and private agencies, funded by an equally complicated system of public and private money managed by insurance companies. Per health insurance policy I’d already written a treatment plan on him, despite only having met him once, a month ago.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Subscribers get free access to all Mad in America content and webinar events. Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. Please donate to help us continue our work in 2025 and beyond. That has not happened.

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“What Matters to You?” – An Antidote to “What’s Wrong” and “What Happened”

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implies that the only reasonable justification for our mental distress is being able to identify difficult life events. Moreover, if there is nothing wrong with us, and it’s (‘just’) a normal response to our circumstances, it gives mental health services (or insurance companies) a convenient excuse not to provide health services or support.

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Medical Health Treatment vs. Mental Health Treatment

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Through a series of events that took place in my late 20s and early 30s, I began to live with depression. Looking back on my latest visit to the hospital I discovered some things that might have gone unnoticed if this event never took place. As we grow older and our lives change we experience new things, some good, some bad.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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And when studying rare events, it is unacceptable to lose statistical power by including only “recent” trials. 42] Furthermore, twice as many women experienced a core or potential psychotic event. What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. This is a fake fix, as people can kill themselves suddenly and unexpectedly.

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When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens

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HVNA have collaborated with Initiative for a Polymorphous Movement for Mental Health, family associations for mental health, collective worker’s publishing houses in Athens, city movements, events, discussions in organisations and political places, etc.