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Baker Act Is Harmful Not Helpful

The Baker Act is the name of the law in Florida that is exercised to involuntarily commit people to a psychiatric facility.  People that are committed under the Baker Act are deemed to be an immediate...

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Mental Health and Diet

One’s diet and one’s mental health could be very directly related. So much so, that instead of reaching for a prescription drug to “cure” depression, ADD, Bi-Polar Disorder and other mental...

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Can Medical Conditions Cause Severe Psychiatric Symptoms?

Yes, they can. Many people end up receiving psychiatric medications and other treatments when undiagnosed and untreated medical conditions are the true cause of their so-called mental illnesses. Dr....

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One life-long thing that can dramatically impact learning

I plan for 8-9 hours. My husband aims for less – maybe closer to 6 hours. My best pal tallies around 7 hours. What am I talking about? No, it’s not study or homework time. It is the time allotted for...

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Mental Health and Diet

One’s diet and one’s mental health could be very directly related. So much so, that instead of reaching for a prescription drug to “cure” depression, ADD, Bi-Polar Disorder and other mental...

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Drive Your Health 2015

  Source: http://www.recallcenter.com/drive-your-health-in-2015/

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Florida Parents – Learn Informed Consent – It Might Save Your Child

A Seminole County mother narrowly escaped losing permanent custody of her child in a case where immediate use of Florida’s Informed Consent laws might have avoided the ordeal she did experience. Sarah...

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The Joke is on Us… Psychiatric Students Study Seinfeld

Psychiatry professor Anthony Tobia of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is teaching his students about psychiatric disorders through required watching of Seinfeld episodes. It sounds like a...

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Monitoring the Mental Health of the Elderly

  It is very common to hear about someone getting on in years and developing dementia or going senile.  Many say the mind is the first thing to go.  It’s long been considered just to be a part of...

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The End of Psychiatry: Drugging VS. Understanding

Even mental health professionals admit the death nell of their profession is near. Decades of using drugs to treat invented mental illnesses has created skepticism within their own ranks. For example,...

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