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Ana's story: fighting for disability rights in Croatia | openDemocracy

Ana is among 18,000 people with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities placed under guardianship in Croatia, and stripped of their legal capacity – the right to make basic decisions – to marry and form a family, to consent to …

Social Anxiety Disorder – Nicole Bickel | wE'Re AlL mAd HeRe

I was first diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder aged fifteen. Secondary school triggered it, the transition was brutal and I found it hard to cope. The spot light, previously a positive and rewarding place was now hostile and …

Every family should have access to mental healthcare | TheHill

Every family should have access to mental healthcare. By Harold S. Koplewicz, MD. The most disturbing response to the mass shooting last week at Umpqua Community College in Oregon has been the powerless shrug.

I haven't had a mental health problem for 40 years, but I'm still toxic …

Some years ago I wrote in the Guardian about how I am still stigmatised by a brief mental illness I had in my teens. I wrote the piece after I had to disclose – yet again – to a life insurance provider that I once had a mental …

Talk Therapy Effective to Treat Schizophrenia – WebMD

Oct. 20, 2015 — Talk therapy benefits schizophrenia patients and reduces their need for heavy use of antipsychotic drugs, a large study finds. Currently, treatment for many of the two million Americans with schizophrenia involves strong doses …