Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. 23,24 In 2013, I estimated that, in people aged 65 and above, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or similar, and depression drugs kill 209,000 people annually in the United States. for those aged 70-79.
Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.
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Association for Psychological Science (APS)
MARCH 13, 2025
Everyone ages, but, sometimes, people outlive all predictions. Previous research has uncovered an unlikely factor related to longevity: intelligence (Bckman & MacDonald, 2006; Bosworth & Siegler, 2002). It tracked 516 people aged 70 to 105 from enrollment to their death, over as long as 18 years in some cases.
Mad in America
JANUARY 20, 2024
And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder. But the promised gains never materialized.
Mad in America
JULY 18, 2024
The opening roll of this classic skit: In the Middle Ages, medicine was still in its infancy. Herbal medicine, eclectic medicine, and homeopathic medicine were some of the pre-1850 approaches to health that, whatever faults they might have had, did not encourage practitioners to bleed their patients to death or poison them with mercury.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Mom continued to struggle to overcome depression until her death in 2002. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD. Kelly Brogan , a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, reports significant concerns about brexanolone. We need pills, but we need much more.”
College of Psychiatrists of Ireland
MARCH 7, 2025
She is a Consultant in Later Life Psychiatry with Mayo Mental Health Services. I enjoyed the team working, the holistic approach and the very human touch that psychiatry employs in delivering health care. Stigmatisation of those with mental illness. Did you always want to be psychiatrist? Do any challenges remain?
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