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My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mentalhealth issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. I decided to agree with the medical model, that it was a genetic disease that could be treated with a medication, like diabetes. Starting at the age of five I can remember being fearful of her.
National Association for the Advancement of Psycho
OCTOBER 20, 2018
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2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. New York: Broadway Paperbacks; 2015. Copenhagen: Peoples Press; 2015. and 3.20, respectively.
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