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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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Medical Health Treatment vs. Mental Health Treatment

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All I could understand at that age was I got hurt, I was in the hospital and everyone wanted to help. It was not until years later that I began to understand how people living with mental health challenges looked at hospitalization so much differently than I did. I was allowed to keep my cell phone, wallet, and other belongings.

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

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R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

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Researchers surveyed 900 patients aged 18 to 64 who were taking antidepressants and categorized them based on their past and present use. The researchers recruited the 900 service users using the Carelon Research Healthcare Integrated Research Database, an administrative claims database for health outcome research.

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Children Without Health Insurance in Connecticut

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of children under age 18 in the U.S. do not have health insurance coverage. of children (approximately 26,000) did not have health insurance coverage as of 2019 ( visit the CT Health Foundation’s website to learn more about who is uninsured in CT). Read a summary of the mental health parity law here.

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When the Help Becomes Part of the Problem

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M y first encounter with the psychiatric system in America was at the age of 18. With each step I took into the building, the kilos of shame I had felt since the age of five built up upon my back. He was amicable, handsome, and seemed to be around the age of twenty-five. 5 on the 4.0 I was a failure. I’ll call him Carlos.

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How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network

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Like many family members I was mystified, startled, and clueless about this experience so I turned to mental health professionals for answers. After one difficult night, we went to a local mental health crisis center. Out of fear more than anything else, he made angry statements to a mental health care worker.