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Exhibition on Human Rights and Psychiatry
Bad at maths? Get annoyed or angry for no good reason? Don’t get on with your sister, brother, aunty, budgie? Can’t wait to get your next coffee fix? Perhaps the interactive documentary-style Exhibition on Human Rights & Mental Health can put you straight about some of this….
Exhibition on Human Rights and Psychiatry
The DSM – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is used in New Zealand to label people as mentally ill. But the above life problems are redefined as: Mathematical Learning Disorder, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Sibling (or budgie) Relational Disorder & our favourite Caffeine Disorder.
All fun aside though, this is an incredibly important and serious subject that you should get informed on for the sake of your and other’s wellbeing.
Antidepressant Facts New Zealand's drug regulatory body, Medsafe (www.medsafe.govt.nz) has NOT approved antidepressants to anyone under the age of 18. In 2007/08 14,733 antidepressant prescriptions were given to children and young people aged from 6 to 18 years, while another 72 prescriptions were given to children 5 and under.
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