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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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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

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H uman behavior is shaped by a complex interplay of lifes events, conditions, and circumstances. 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. What did they experience? They are also more likely to be depressed.

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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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My Red October – An Army Veteran’s Crucible to Recovery

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The mania, paranoia, delusional thoughts and rage I’d been experiencing in the days and weeks leading up to this event became an untenable crisis. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. And when studying rare events, it is unacceptable to lose statistical power by including only “recent” trials. 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al.

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Ward 362: On Meeting People in Sorrow

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I’ve come here from the surgical emergency department, where I spent a week to date before having my third mental breakdown that spring. Even before that, I had had covid and sustained long-term breathing difficulties that the health center refused to investigate. ” it comes from the mental nurse. Can we talk?”

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