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Antidepressants & Mass Murder

Antidepressants & Mass Murder   2.5 min video by Peter Goetzche, a brilliant MD/researcher, on risks of psychiatric medications for adults and youth Antidepressants and Other Psychiatric Drugs Psychiatric drugs are mind altering chemicals designed
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Withdrawal from Prescribed Psychotopic Drugs

Drug withdrawal is an important topic today.  This new book is an international collaboration that includes users, psychiatrists, researchers, and academics committed to helping people understand the potential harm that prescribed psychotropic drugs can cause
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NEWS: On Voice Hearing

There are communities in which hearing voices frequently is common and expected, and in which participants are not expected to have a need for care. This paper compares the ideas and practices of these communities.
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Update: What’s Most Effective vs. Depression?

Early in the pandemic depression tripled, from 8.5% just before to 27.8%, then skyrocketed to 32.8% in 2021.  For Perspective…   Depression Rates Soar In the U.S. in 2017, an estimated 17.3 million American adults,
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Human Rights in Mental Health: A Paradigm Shift At WHO

 Human Rights Model Promoted in New Guidance There is new guidance for mental health clinics published at the World Health Organization that represents a paradigm shift from a biomedical model to a human rights model. 
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Beyond the Mental Health Paradigm: The power threat meaning framework

Not only is it time to abandon psychiatric diagnosis, it is time to move beyond the medicalised perspective of ‘mental health’. A new framework for understanding how we all cope with distress – the power

Watch New Film Aug 12: Medicating Normal

You’re invited to join us for an online community screening of Medicating Normal, a 76-minute documentary film exploring through stories our current mental health care system’s over-reliance on psychiatric drugs. An interactive community discussion will follow immediately
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7 Tips To Manage Anxiety Naturally

  We all need effective ways to manage anxiety.  Facing a pandemic and conflicting views of how to manage life create some degree of worry for everyone.  Of course, we need to turn to our