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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

LANGA TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA – JANUARY 28, 2014 – Schoolchildren poses for a photograph along a roadway in Langa, South Africa, a township located on the outskirts of Cape Town. Without health insurance, known locally as medical aid, people living in South Africa are only guaranteed care for serious mental illness.

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How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network

Mad in America

The Bay Area Hearing Voices Network started in 2014 as a small group of family members, clinicians, and those with lived experiences. I felt that facilitators needed to be paid not only as a symbol of their value to their community and their work, but by paying facilitators it helped insure the group’s longevity.

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Why Social Media Can’t Replace a Real Therapist

Zencare

Mental health professionals are required to follow the law, which includes HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, a federal law that protects the privacy and the security of medical information. Or much worse, it can result in you not getting the proper help you need if you are in a crisis. ACA code of ethics.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

Mad in America

In 2014, after years of struggling in the press, the courts, and the scientific community, a group of researchers finally gained access to at least some of the study data with GSK fighting against the light of day at every turn. However, in 2004, the New York attorney general filed a consumer fraud action and collected $2.5

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That Others May Live: An Airman’s Mental Health and Medication Hurricane

Mad in America

In 2014, I took emergency leave from Afghanistan to be with my brother. At this time I all but gave up on the VA and instead used my health insurance to access a civilian counselor. When my grandmother died in 2005, my struggles deepened and I was prescribed a second set of SSRIs. At last, I am truly healing.

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

44 Behavioral therapy is used by just 44% of pediatric patients, in part because its not always covered by medical insurance and knowledgeable providers are scarce. In addition, neurofeedback is seldom covered by insurance and involves a significant investment of time and money. 8 when used on its own), 40 exercise (effect size of.4

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

Dubey, 2018; Egan, 2018; Ejaredar & Hagen, 2014; Farnsworth, 2016; Grant, 2006; Greer, 2016; Halle & Nelson, 2019; Harris, 2023; Larkin, 2022; Life After ECT Inc., In addition to issues with the validity of psychiatric diagnosis (Cooper, 2014; Cosgrove, 2024; Hengartner & Lehmann, 2017; Khoury et al., 2014; Schroder et al.,