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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

Mad in America

S purred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been leapfrogging each other in recent years from California and New York to Oregon , Oklahoma , Indiana and beyond.

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Treat Systems, Not Symptoms: Defending the Sanity of the Oppressed

Mad in America

1 This burden in mental health systems is paralleled globally, and yet, the WHO estimates that 35 to 50% of individuals in high income countries like the U.S. do not receive mental health care. 2 There is a significant treatment gap coupled with global underfunding in mental health care.

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IEP Tips From An Education Lawyer And IEP Advocate (with Associate Attorney Alexandra Rosenblatt and BCBA Annie McLaughlin)

Behavioral Collective Podcast

She’s also looking for Annie’s expertise to provide recommendations because that’s what she relies upon with her legal work Annie is the one that provides the recommendations and Alexandra provides the legal arguments Is it common for families to have an IEP advocate and/or an education lawyer? [5:20] What about this?

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This would seem to meet the legal criteria for libel, given that both the STAR*D authors and the AJP knew that Pigott and colleagues had done no such thing.

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Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes

Psychiatric News

Tuesday Reprinted from its original source at The Rutherford Institute HERE By John & Nisha Whitehead July 18, 2023 There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.Hannah Arendt Get ready for the next phase of the governments war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions.

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Can Creativity Help You Heal Depression? An Interview with Psychiatrist, Dr. Carrie Barron

Lawyers with Depression

I also believe, especially for children, were in a striving, ambitious, productive time mentality for children and adults. There are many definitions of creativity. My definition is allowing the most natural self to emerge to make a positive contribution. I think thats part of it. Knitting, crafting, and even fixing things.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.