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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

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Australian researchers who tested the hypothesis that national mental health policies, programmes and legislation would lower national suicide rates, found the opposite in their study of 100 countries. In other countries, the same happened.

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Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?

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If the chemical imbalance theory is still what a large swathe of the public believe, don’t researchers, mental health practitioners, and people who are responsible for mental health policies have an ethical responsibility to ensure that the public has the most up-to-date and evidence-based facts?

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.