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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

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A Silent Crisis Despite rising awareness, mental health is still a taboo topic in many Korean families. of Koreans reported experiencing at least one mental health issue in the past year, such as chronic stress, anxiety, or depressive symptoms. Ive also been one of them. This is a sharp increase from 63.8%

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. Has anyone investigated how alternative therapies were diminished and basically vanquished? But the U.K.