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Tackling social determinants will reduce the global mental health burden: mega-blog of current prevention strategies

The Mental Elf

The post Tackling social determinants will reduce the global mental health burden: mega-blog of current prevention strategies appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Considered a Disability? Understanding Legal Rights and Workplace Accommodations in the U.S.

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Understanding how OCD is viewed through legal and employment lenses is crucial for individuals navigating work, education, or disability benefits. This blog explores OCD and ADA compliance, workplace rights, and how individuals living with OCD can access reasonable accommodations and support systems under federal law.

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

My colleagues and I became the architects of new forms of advertising, ones that expanded the definition of depression, presented the serotonin theory, and even educated physicians and patients about the diagnostic criteria of depression itself , so as to create ever-larger markets for psychiatric drugs.

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The New Neuro-Physchiatry: Parkinson’s

The Whole Psychiatry & Brain Recovery Center

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Ten Years Later: Still Shooting the Odds

Mad in America

I t was about 10 years ago I wrote in a MIA blog post that if I thought that it was possible, I would have opened a string of clinics all over the country to help get people off of antidepressants. My blog post goes on to explain this in more detail.

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Mad studies and critical/relational psychiatry

Critical Psychiatry

The book for which it was written has now been published: Mad Studies Reader , edited by Brad Lewis (who has written a guest post for this blog) et al.

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

Mad in America

It is a reflection of deep systemic issuessocial pressure, medical hierarchy, lack of education around mental healththat collectively push people into silent suffering and pharmaceutical dependence. In a society where education is often seen as the primary vehicle for success, becoming a doctor is regarded as the ultimate achievement.