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Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers

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Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant), administrators of 988Lifeline under contract from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has spawned a political lobbying division that’s helping usher state infrastructure investments and legislative initiatives. Where’s the accountability?”

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. For Illich, the iatrogenesis of modern medicine is clinical when harm to individuals results specifically from medical treatment.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. Life expectancy has increased globally due to advancements in medical technology, better hygiene, and improved access to healthcare.

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Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions

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The truth is that, in our “diagnostic culture,” all these behaviors and emotions will be translated as symptoms of some mental disorder classified in the DSM. In his words: “Hospitals are part of life in this world. That anguished search ended, tragically, with her first psychiatric hospitalization.

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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

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The young dancer’s story—at her request and her father’s, she’ll remain anonymous—illustrates both the lure and harms of social media, which has been drawing more and more attention of late for its ubiquity, its addictiveness, its corporate habits, and its role in the youth mental health crisis. hours a day on social media.”

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands

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With a vision to transcend the cycle of incarceration into a restorative model of justice, rituals like smudging and cultural education are integrated alongside therapies like acupuncture, itself a technology that was invented by indigenous peoples of the Americas thousands of years ago.