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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

Mad in America

A legal guardian and conservator have hijacked her father’s life and estate and she cannot get him out. My friend, who I will call Lilly to protect her and her family, is amidst a legal battle with her sibling and a cabal of lawyers over the legal guardianship and conservatorship of her 74-year-old father, though he can still make decisions.

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The WHO and the United Nations: Let Freedom Ring for the Mad

Mad in America

The CRPD creates an enabling legal environment from which to develop rights-based mental health systems that prioritize a person’s empowerment and active participation in their own recovery. Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.

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

Mad in America

Its basically legal speed, and it can have some really bad effects. We didnt pursue legal action against any of the doctorswe just didnt have the fight left in us. Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. I told Richard, Look, this stuff isnt good for you. Its an amphetamine.

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Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Help

Kids Mental Health Info

The post Wrightslaw: Special Education Legal Help appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info. At the Wrightslaw website, parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys can find accurate, reliable information and trainings about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.

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Reframing Antipsychotic Discontinuation: A Psychiatrist’s Personal and Professional Call for Epistemic Justice

Mad in America

There are ongoing ethical, moral, and legal challenges surrounding the prescription and discontinuation of antipsychotic medicationschallenges that a new article suggests can be addressed through the lens of epistemic injustice.

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Perfectionism in the Legal Profession & Its Relationship to Lawyer and Law Student Mental Health: An Interview with Jordana Confino

Lawyers with Depression

in Psychology from Yale University, Certifications in Coaching and Applied Positive Psychology, two federal judicial clerkships, and a former Adjunct Law Professor of the Year award at Fordham , Jordana Confino understands the unique stressors and demands of the legal profession. With a J.D. from Yale Law School , a B.A.

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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

Mad in America

As we come to understand the psychiatric hospital as a pseudo-prison, we must address the question of legality—the pseudo-laws which surround the pseudo-prison. ” As such, psychiatry is enclaved into the legal system as a secret supplementary legal system—a legal system inside the legal system.