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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Leigh, Mother of Melissa

Mad in America

She was never again able to function at the high level she did before, sleeping a lot at first and then developing insomnia afterward. She experienced kindling and BIND (benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction), a term that a nonprofit, the Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices [ABBP], introduced.

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Child Mind Institute and Kaggle Launch Competition to Predict Teen Internet Addiction

Child Mind Intitute

Citizen scientists will use Healthy Brain Network data on physical activity and internet use; competition sponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA New York, NY The youth mental health crisis has many causes, but one rising concern is technology. sleep length and quality), clinical measurements (e.g.,

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Screen Time Struggles: What a Data Science Competition Taught Us About Problematic Internet Use in Teens

Child Mind Intitute

As parents, educators, and mental health professionals, we’re all grappling with the impact of technology on our kids. To develop tools that could help identify Problematic Internet Use (PIU) in adolescents from easily measurable metrics of physical health. How much screen time is too much? But PIU is about more than that.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

Mad in America

I don’t think there’s enough actual oversight, whether civilian or governmental, of the mental health system, and it does a ton of harm.” In a 2005 paper , Gottstein wrote that the “involuntary mental illness system operates largely illegally.” Russell’s request was again denied.

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Grant, Interrupted: An Introduction and Report Back from Oregon

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In late 2022, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued a public request for grant proposals, and our organization was chosen to create and operate a peer respite in Southern Oregon. In the year since the Oregon Health Authority issued its Intent to Award notice, Oregon’s peer respite’s have come under attack from many sides.