Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

They conducted a review of current guidelines that met the criteria of being peer-reviewed guidelines published after 2004 in English, Dutch, or French, that were centered on monitoring major adverse effects and included evidence-based recommendations.

Trauma and the brain 114

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

Thankfully, from my work as a music college professor, I understood the connection between music and the brain. This led him to his initial treatment and drugs, which led to more, then more, then more, evolving into a long and arduous cascade of psychiatric harms. The ER physician had given him Prozac. I could see his lifeless eyes.

Sleep and mental health 127

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

Poverty and mental health 145

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

AUGUST 16, 2024

I ’m sitting on the floor of my ex-boyfriend’s spare room, rummaging through my forsaken knick-knacks, when a vintage toy poodle emerges. Her faded velvet body feels soft and clean, the black boucle loops of fur on her head and paws are rough and scratchy. Instead, I find him sitting rigid on the couch, his eyes glued to the TV, nothing unusual.

Aging and mental health 107

Aging and mental health Legal Trauma and the brain Hospitality 107