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“Mental Health Crisis”: Responses to the Separation of Immigrant Families

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“Mental Health Crisis”: Responses to the Separation of Immigrant Families

"Separating families is a humanitarian and health crisis" -The Seattle Times . Individuals and organizations (including from the fields of psychology, medicine, and public health) have all publicly expressed their concerns of the administration's policies on the health (physical and mental) of the immigrant families impacted. These statements are powerful and deserve serious attention. #FamiliesBelongTogether [...]

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The Euthanasia Debate: How do the Mentally Ill Factor In?

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The Euthanasia Debate: How do the Mentally Ill Factor In?

A couple of months ago, I came across an article claiming that Belgium psych wards euthanize the mentally ill. As someone with a mental illness myself, I was shocked by the article, and possibly even more by some of the comments below it: Well of course they do. How could they possibly afford to pay [...]