Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” 19, lists “CRPD provisions for a rights-based approach to mental health,” including Legal capacity, Liberty and security of person, Free and informed consent, Living independently, Inclusion in the community, and Access to justice.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Of the 38 agencies that responded, 25 reported using screening protocols that several mental health and legal experts said don’t meet professional standards. The Marshall Project sent questions to all 50 state corrections departments asking whether and how they screen prisoners for developmental or intellectual disabilities.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Unfortunately, this phrase is not legally binding. They could not have known — so few people do — that a system of legalized theft exists that would toss aside their plans and siphon off much of their money. That’s when I sought out legal counsel by obtaining my own attorney, John Barlow. I wanted things to be made right.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

People can’t legally be nasty to us because disability abuse is a hate crime too but that doesn’t appear to stop them; there doesn’t seem to be any legal precedents, cases or arrests when people who are exhibiting bizarre behaviour, are subjected to abuse and called names. He scrawled something down on a notepad, something.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Yet they laude legal poisons that make the side effects of street drugs look like candy bars. They have no address; the system has little legal access to them. I can speak with them of what I have experienced with drug side effects and possibly enlighten them to what may be going on in their own process with these drugs.

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Mad in America

MAY 15, 2024

I said to myself, “If I can develop a way to work that brings me more satisfaction, if I can develop a paradigm that can survive considering the legalities, I think my life is going to be better.” And from a legal perspective, I’m just following the same rules in my textbooks. However, learn the legalities.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2025

The JLECBH Charter indicates that it is [e]establishing an anticipated inventory of future services and supports with a specific emphasis on prevention, early intervention, and home or community-based capacity designed to reduce reliance on emergency, criminal legal, crisis, and involuntary services (emphasis added ) , among other actions.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2024

And once those devices reach the marketplace, the FDA struggles to track malfunctions, including deaths and injuries — while injured patients face legal barriers trying to hold manufacturers accountable for product defects.” . ‘No, it hasn’t,’ Sharlin said.

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Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

Guardianship and the legal system stole her from me. The next day, speaking with a lawyer in legal aid offices, I learned of a court hearing. What a joke the legal system is. I t can lead to theft, lies, deception, and the wrongful death of our loved ones by deceitful predators, all in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Psychedelics: While still controversial due to a welter of legal, cultural, and safety concerns, it now seems unavoidable that psychedelics will be part of the mental health care of the future. Even as legalization proceeds apace across the country, ayahuasca circles and similar events can already be found in many communities.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Prior to 1967, psychiatrically, intellectually, and developmentally disabled Californians lacked legal protections against involuntary confinement in institutions. ’ LPS also established some of the first due process rights for people facing involuntary psychiatric commitments.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That is, the legal framework and policies and practices for services and support still need to be created, because it is still very institutional, is what activists there have told me, but there are all these reforms underway. I started the book project for two reasons.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

And yet it’s required to document itself as if it weren’t any different, and this language, as with all of health care, become the basis for billing, proving policy compliance, and legal protection. All of this documentation adds up to a significant psychological toll on the writer—how could it not?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2024

The societal expectations and legal consequences tied to these judgments reflect a departure from humanitys evolutionary roots. To me, when a persons natural statenakedis deemed illegal, and people using natures medicine cabinet for medicinal purposes are labeled as criminals, it signals that our ideas of common decency have gone too far.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

I once asked a senior doctor if it was really legal to do that. “Do Do you want it legal? Then we will do it legally!” It may happen that you are given the choice between remaining in the department “voluntarily” or that a care certificate is written. I got in reply. I objected that there was absolutely no need.

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Lawyers with Depression

JULY 22, 2024

The legal profession is renowned for its rigorous demands and high-pressure environment. They must constantly learn and stay updated on changing laws and legal trends. We must have a discussion about alcohol abuse and addictions within the legal profession. Lawyers have to hustle and compete for clients and recognition.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Worst of all, corporal punishment remains legal in 23 US states —so why are our efforts focused on TikTok and texting? In the US, about 10 percent of students are sexually abused in school , while schools continue to discipline students with disabilities by restraining or isolating them.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For his efforts, Silas received a very prestigious award, the Kafka award, which is given to a person who has made a special effort to strengthen the legal position of weak social groups in society. This should be done in all countries. Silas lived in a youth home for the last period of his life.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Unfortunately, we are moving in the wrong direction when it comes to student privacy, and constant online monitoring may soon become legally required, even when schools choose privacy-preserving mental health options. The bulk of these legally induced harms will fall on historically marginalized students.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Psychiatric advance directives are legal documents in which the older adult would identify a proxy, who would be empowered to make decisions on his/her behalf. Psychiatric advance directives should be developed before there is any chance that the older adult will be viewed as incompetent.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

She was now my carer and had legal authority over me. I did not legally require her or anyone elses approval. More plausibly, it was because my prison bed was required for another unfortunate individual. The hospital staff released me back into the arms of my abuser.

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Anxiety & Depression Association of America

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In this blog, learn about Eleanore Maccoby, PhD, whose ground-breaking research on child development and gender studies effected various legal and social policies regarding children in divorcing families.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this way, we put everyone else who is injured by the drug in a state of legal jeopardy because companies can claim nothing like happened in our studies – it’s your anecdote against our evidence. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Only by following legal and financial motivations can one make sense of what has happened to our world’s handling of psychological distress. Any other time in history would laugh at how long it has taken the scientific community to acknowledge this reality (almost as though there were conflicts of interest at play all along).

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

’ Idaho will soon be the last state to legally sanction the practice of imprisoning patients who are ‘dangerously mentally ill,’ to use Idaho’s parlance, but who are not criminals. New Hampshire is phasing it out.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 16, 2024

I understand there could be consequences to them, emotionally, practically and maybe even legally if I killed myself shortly after discharge and that is why I would never do that. The legal proceedings happened without my knowledge, preventing me from defending myself. I’m being reduced to non-human.

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Mad in America

JULY 10, 2024

Social prescriptions, like I said, also apply to food, money, housing support, legal support—because those things affect our health too, right? By the way, direct marketing of prescription drugs is only legal in the United States and New Zealand. That was the first time I heard about depression, through marketing.

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National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

MARCH 6, 2025

These provisions can carry hidden costs, leaving named insured parties to unfairly shoulder financial and legal burdens. Defense costs : Defending an additional insured typically incurs higher legal and expert witness fees, further diminishing the named insureds policy limits. What Is an Additional Insured Endorsement?

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

.’ The day featured a number of talks by academics and experts from the faculty and guest speakers, covering topics such as proposals for a young onset dementia service, integrated care in health services, innovations in service delivery, clinical and legal updates and more. View the programme of the day below

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Simon interviewed dozens of people with relevant expertise, including legal scholars, First Nations’ leaders, disability rights advocates and folks working in restorative justice processes. The process was held with a spirit of stewardship—we were doing this work in relationship with (and accountable to) our wider communities.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 8, 2023

My name is Kyle Hulbert; I am No-One’s Son, The Boy Nobody Knew, and I am not the only child to have been devoured by that great grey beast.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

This is a story of many, many patients, and the perspective of an international movement of patients, families, clinicians, researchers, legal advocates, and disability rights activists. This isn’t just a plea from my perspective.

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

I find that many young lawyers and even some older ones have difficulty turning their legal brains off when they leave the office. Whether you manage your stress through exercise, socializing, or channeling your energies into other, non-legal pursuits and be sure to make time for these things.

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Mad in America

JUNE 1, 2024

But in the psychiatric hospital, she said, “It’s like I was a rat, or a gnat… I don’t think it mattered to them whether I lived or died, beyond their own legal liability.” With disturbing, visceral imagery, Elle described her experiences of sexual assault as being treated like an animal “valued” only for its “meat.”

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Dr. Deb

AUGUST 17, 2023

In honor of National Make-A-Will Month this August, the American Red Cross and FreeWill have teamed up to offer free legal will support. Life can end unexpectedly in an instant and, without a plan in place, grieving relatives can be tied up in court for years in the process of acquiring and dividing an estate's assets.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Two of the largest organizations representing therapists, the American Psychological Association and the National Association of Social Workers, took legal action. Therapists are hired as independent contractors who are paid by the hour and are not technically employees.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

Just as things began to settle down in the legal battle for my eldest children, the sheriff’s department showed up at my mother’s house and presented me with another court order granting my husband emergency custody of my youngest children.

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