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...alleging a conspiracy among psychiatrists? Not exactly. Psychiatrists are taught the biological models of mental illness and come to believe in them, he says. He recalls a recurring exchange he had with doctors while researching Mad in America...
...national charity SANE Australia is running a campaign - "Mental Illness is Real" - that challenges "misinformed community attitudes that discourage the 1 in 5 Australians affected by mental illness from seeking the treatment they need." Last year, Pfizer Australia urged G.P.s to be alert to depression in the country's three million arthritis sufferers. On the basis of a poll it had commissioned and interpreted, the company found 20% of these people had depression. Months earlier, working from another one of its surveys, Pfizer announced that "alarming numbers" of young Australians were at risk of depression because many around them were...
...Immediately before her encounter with psychiatry, Rebekah Beddoe was a normal girl having a rough trot. By the time of her inspired decision three years later to take herself off her medications, she'd been diagnosed with five separate mental disorders and drugged to within an inch of her life. Heavy doses of an antipsychotic have left her a diabetic and her left arm is a canvas of self-inflicted scars. Somehow, her family remains intact. She married Jemima's father, Nigel, in the midst of her trials and the three of them are going strong. She can find...
...knowledge of crime trends and information on why people are stopped, questioned, and arrested. Over the past few years, the University has complied with information requests on an ad hoc basis — last year, the school released aggregate suicide statistics that allowed The Crimson to expand its mental health coverage. But this ad hoc system is precisely the problem: we are beholden to the goodwill of an administration that has the potential to be open one moment and cloistered the next. What happens when The Crimson tries to uncover a trend that is not already on the University...
...While blacks comprise around 15 percent of the U.S. population and 15 percent of drug users, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Household Survey on Drug Use, they account for 36.8 percent of drug arrests...