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

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As a Doctor of Korean Medicine who helps patients taper off long-term psychotropic medication, I see the cracks in the system every daypatients who were placed on antidepressants, sleeping pills, or antipsychotics decades ago and never given a clear path to recovery. Ive also been one of them. Psychotherapy is rarely suggested.

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A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment

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N elson Lee is a therapist and mental skills coach with a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and an MBA. He believes it’s never too late or too early to improve your mental health. After a week, I was fine — then suddenly one night I stopped sleeping. It came on quickly.

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Are “Trauma/Addiction Experts” and Psychiatrists Misleading Us?

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I t is my contention that “trauma/addiction experts” and psychiatrists cause unnecessary harm to people who are suffering and feeling emotional pain by categorizing them, generalizing about their unique behaviours and by labeling certain types of behaviours as “addictions” and “mental illnesses”. They represented “problems in living”.

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

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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). In the Bible, atonement, as one online definition states, is the process of fixing relationships that have been broken by wrongdoing.

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The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz

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Beyond academia, he contributes significantly to public health policy as a member of the United Kingdom’s Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulations. Mark Horowitz is a clinical research fellow in psychiatry at the National Health Service (NHS) in London. I started having trouble sleeping.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Fee: There were definitely multiple. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information. I was shocked. And hewas all of those things.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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Later, DSM-III-R (1987) expanded the definition to include sexual assault, and DSM-IV (1994) emphasized individual responses like fear or helplessness. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows substantial reductions in mortality rates from infectious diseases that once caused widespread fatalities.