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Sad? No Trips to Parks for You!

filed in Canadian Mental Health Association, Civil Rights, Issues, Schizophrenia Society on Sep.10, 2008

In another chapter of the disturbing trend of psychiatry pushing into our daily lives, Nova Scotia’s government has started requiring people applying for driver’s licenses to confess whether they’ve ever had a “psychiatric or psychological condition”. (Um, what’s NOT a “psychological condition”, anyway? Last I checked even paying attention to the road was a “psychological [...]

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