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When HVN Ireland Meets HVN Athens

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Other seminars of HVNA have been in mental health hospitals—including on the infamous psychiatric hospital on the island of Leros, which in 1989 became internationally known for the maltreatment of patients and embezzlement of funds. Also seminars have been held with user & family associations, NGOs, and universities.

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

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I mentioned this proposal in a recent article in Asylum magazine as a response to polarised debates about the use of antidepressants. Increasingly, under-resourced services look for excuses not to provide health care and insurance companies find reasons not to pay out. For all these reasons, ‘what matters to you?’

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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Ads for the for-profit therapy company BetterHelp are everywhere: on television, public radio, podcasts, social media, and in magazines. Without insurance, patients can choose to be seen for whatever they want, and therapists don’t need to shoehorn them into a diagnostic category, which can be stigmatizing.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

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I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.” Pharmacist.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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29] An article [30] from an industry-funded magazine misquoted our study, which found that, in adult healthy volunteers, depression drugs double the risk of suicide and violence compared with placebo. [31] Katinka ended up in the private Florence Nightingale psychiatric hospital in London.

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‘A Playground for Predators’: Diane Dimond on The Abuses of Guardianship

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As a freelance journalist, syndicated columnist, and former television correspondent, her reporting and commentary have been featured in newspapers, magazines, and TV news outlets across the country. O ur guest today is Diane Dimond, a longtime, award-winning investigative journalist specializing in crime and justice issues.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital. One lawsuit from about 5-6 years ago was by a man forced to undergo ECT in Connecticut and the case was featured in Reason magazine (Simonson, 2020).