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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. That has not happened.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? The real question is whether the “brighter future” is always so distant. I believe these kinds of questions will shape our understanding of the future of mental health. Yet these things are not acts of God.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

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10 The reanalysis revealed that suicide attempts were significantly higher than what the original study had reported, and there were many more unreported serious adverse events in the Paxil group. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S.

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

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Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).

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What Happens When There Is No Help?

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But after this event, I started visiting the school counsellor frequently. I tried to open up to the psychiatrist, but he decided that I had a chemical imbalance in my brain and told me the only treatment was medication. Then later, around the time of my parents’ divorce, I was sexually abused by the older son of a family friend.