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Loss of 988 Hotline Services Tailored to LGBTQ+ Youth

Psychiatric Times

Transgender people can never, and will never, be erased,” said Jaymes Black, CEO of the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides 988 crisis support services for LGBTQ+ individuals.

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Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance

Kids Mental Health Info

The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) is a nonprofit offering peer-based, wellness-oriented support and empowering services and resources for people living with depression and bipolar disorder and their families. Find online resources, trainings, and a network of 450 local support groups nationwide.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

Rebecca started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of two and was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and pediatric bipolar disorder. which questioned the rising cases of young children diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The civil case was settled in January of 2011 for $2.5

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

And few diagnoses are as adamantly claimed to be biological in nature (counter to all evidence) as much as bipolar disorder. That no one has ever established any such thing to be true for people diagnosed with bipolar disorder. That bipolar is indeed only a name psychiatry has for a certain type of behavior.