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

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He was confused, not fully out of the psychotic episode that had landed him in the hospital weeks before. 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.

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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. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 2)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. This distinction is important because the MD is basically a practitioner degree (which is appropriate for the practitioner) and not a research degree, which unfortunately has shaped the quality of healthcare in the 20 th century and beyond. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare.

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

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. Psychiatry has been going down this mental disease road for 75 years or more, and I doubt, for psychiatry, that there is any turning back. The patient self-administers the esketamine nasal spray under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a certified doctor’s office or clinic.

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

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F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like.

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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

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The author, Erik Rudi, voluntarily relinquishes the authority of being a “psychologist” and “healthcare professional.” I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. The author, Erik Rudi. Psychologists cure nothing.

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

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I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal.

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