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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

My first column was about David Foster Wallace, whose ‘This is Water’ commencement address at Kenyon College (2005) had become a touchstone ( see transcript here , and audio recording here ). To paraphrase Wallace’s last words to the Kenyon College Class of 2005: We will need way more than luck.

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The Power of Journaling: What Science Says About the Benefits for Mental Health and Well-Being

Child Mind Intitute

Other research shows the benefits of journaling include: Improved emotional and physical health: Regular journaling enhances mood and emotional awareness and reduces stress levels (Baikie & Wilhelm, 2005). Effects of constructive worry, imagery distraction, and gratitude interventions on sleep quality: A pilot trial. Digdon, N.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold fold increase in the reports of serious ADEs and a 2.7-fold fold increase in the reports of fatal ADEs”.

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The Consciousness of Voices and Visions

Mad in America

I developed these exercises on body perception as a training director for a group of actors and actresses between 2001 and 2005. This process led me many years later to recognize that in my poetics metaphors are not constructed but are seen or heard, as visions or voices.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

By 2005, Eli Lilly had amassed over $22 billion in sales from its SSRI Prozac; and Lilly’s antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, at its peak, grossed more than $5 billion in annual sales. The psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex is fueled by the profits of Big Pharma, which have made a staggering amount of money from psychiatric drugs.