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Amanda Miller was 30 and pregnant with her second child in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when she developed depression. After she gave birth, her depression worsened. It was joined by a slew of unexplained ...

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As assisted-suicide laws expand worldwide to include individuals diagnosed with mental disorders, the Citizens Commission on ...

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Is there such a thing as a mental disorder that is not akin to a biological disease? Biological psychiatry says absolutely not. For them, all mental disorders are biological disorders involving some ...