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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Her mother Patricia has been diagnosed with bipolar I and is currently in hospital. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer. medicines respectively.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift Allan Leventhal, author of Grifting Depression: Psychiatrys Failure as a Medical Science, writes that Ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.