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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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Symptoms and Surface Psychology

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Nevertheless, psychiatrists approach the mental in a similar way doctors approach the physical (remember, psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors, and must go through the same core training). Psychopathology has no signs, only symptoms. It is a medical problem, just like heart disease or diabetes.

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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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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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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

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Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. According to psychiatrists, the suicidal person is suffering from a sickness of the mind: their “mental illness” is making them a threat to themselves!

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

of patients who were prescribed antipsychotics for their psychiatric illness and had evidence of tardive dyskinesia (TD) had TD recorded properly in their electronic health records, supporting the idea that TD is often underreported and misdiagnosed and, therefore, not treated appropriately. References 1. Griffiths K, Won Y, Lee Z, et al.

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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

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From the safety of ones surroundings to access to proper nutrition, sleep, and social stability, the circumstances of life have a lasting biochemical effect on the brain. and of course a host of pharmaceutical drugs. Theyre more likely to develop heart and lung diseases, cancers, and other health issues.