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These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse.

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From 2007 to 2016, pediatric emergency-room visits for mental-health disorders rose 60 percent. But the consistent failure of these kinds of programs is troubling, because teen mental health is now considered a crisis—one that has so far resisted even well-considered solutions.

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When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times

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As a starting point, it detailed how the number of people receiving disability payments due to psychiatric disorders soared from 1987 to 2007, which would not be expected to happen if a medical discipline has developed drugs that are an antidote to a disease.”

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Can We Talk About Spirituality? The Medicalization of Transpersonal Experiences

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In the West, to believe in the existence of spirits is to risk being labeled “ mad “ —Letcher, 2007, p. Körlin (2007), who is a psychiatrist, describes it as psychotic experiences with spiritual elements; spiritual crises can result in improved functioning and they usually have a shorter course. BMC Psychiatry, 15(1), 237.

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Idaho Keeps Some Psych Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice

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State leaders repeatedly have defended Idaho’s approach — in 1977, 2007 and 2017 — as a temporary measure while the state worked on a stand-alone clinical unit or a permanent secure wing in a hospital. New Hampshire is phasing it out. Those facilities never materialized.

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Despite Safety Risks, Prescribers Receive Little Guidance of Monitoring Antipsychotic Clozapine

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Surprisingly, only one guideline, published in Australia in 2007, met the criteria established by the authors. The guideline addresses three major categories of adverse effects, which include hematologic, metabolic, and cardiac adverse effects.

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Antidepressants May Hasten Decline From Dementia, Study Says

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The study, published Monday in the journal BMC Medicine, analyzed medical data from 2007 to 2018 on 4,271 people with dementia enrolled in the Swedish Registry for Cognitive/Dementia Disorders, a repository on dementia research. All the participants had been on antidepressants for at least six months before the study began.

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What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation

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Wunderink and colleagues also found an increased rate of psychotic relapse at their 18 month follow-up and no difference in social functioning ( Wunderink et al, 2007 ).

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