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Damian Scarf experienced the debilitating effects of anxiety first hand when, shortly after entering university, he was pushed to cut off his social groups to achieve higher grades. Now it’s the topic of his research, and Damian shows us first…
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The BBC says (May 23rd, 2018): “Two years ago, Dr Chris van Tulleken discovered we are taking more prescription drugs than ever before – a billion prescriptions a year in the UK. He worked with a GP (General Practice) surgery…
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In this 15 minute video , Rai (Rachel) Waddingham “explores the mantra, woven deep into psychiatric practice – the belief that we should neither confront nor collude with beliefs that are seen as ‘delusional’.” In the video, she shares some of her thoughts…
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Social prescriptions are prescriptions (from health practitioners) that are not biomedical or overtly psychological. See, for instance, Can you prescribe nature? and Bromley-by-Bow Centre and the future of mental health treatment . Social prescribing mostly involves a variety of activities that are typically provided by voluntary and community sector organisations. Examples include volunteering,…
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Healing Homes is a feature-length documentary film, directed by Daniel Mackler, which chronicles the work of the Family Care Foundation (Gothenburg, Sweden) who, in this era of multi-drug cocktails and psychiatric diagnoses-for-life, run programmes to help people recover from psychosis without medication. The organisation, backed…
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Below is 7 minute video from Laura Delano, who introduces her website – Recovering from Psychiatry (www.RecoveringfromPsychiatry.com) – and extends a warm welcome to those who believe in – or who are starting to wonder that perhaps there could be…
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“People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with a really specific label”. So says 16-year-old Rosie King, who here gives a 6 minute, Ted-talk video – “How Autism Freed Me to…
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TED Talk (13 minute video) … The video’s producers say: “When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive…
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“Locked away in a psychiatric ward, he felt trapped, helpless. Isolated from his loved ones and worthless to society. He was terrified of the injections forced on him. More than anything, he wished someone helping him could have said, ‘I’ve…
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Dr. Robert Lefever, a retired GP who is now working as a counsellor, created the first rehabilitation centre in the world to treat all types of addiction. In this 9 minute video he sets out a direct challenge to standard…
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