Psychiatric Patients Tied to Their Beds for Days in Greek Hospitals “just like a dog you tie up”

Standards of care at Greek mental hospitals are still so atrocious that the European Union has threatened to cut funding for social projects if the country does not clean up its act. “The system is in a state of reform, but I have to say that if patients are attached to their beds for hours or days, that’s totally unacceptable,” said Vladimir Spidla, the European Commissioner for Social Affairs. “For me it’s sad that this exists in the European Union.”

Signs Of Suicide (SOS)

This is a sub-organization of SCREENING FOR MENTAL HEALTH that heavily promotes and conducts mental health screening. It is described as a “school based suicide…

The Jed Foundation

In 2000, the Jed Foundation was established by Donna and Phillip Satow after their son Jed tragically committed suicide. Unfortunately, from this awful heartbreak, the…

Depression as a mass marketing campaign: Drug companies profit as antidepressant prescriptions increase

Dr. Brad Hagen, a clinical psychologist and faculty member at the University of Lethbridge, the reason for the skyrocketing rates of depression are a matter of heated debate. “Depending on how you look at it, depression either started becoming more common or recognized, or it became marketed,” says Hagen. Sales of antidepressant drugs worldwide are in the tens of billions of dollars each year. Dr. Hagen says the number of sales is actually quite “mindboggling.”