article thumbnail

“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

Mad in America

Siem: Around 2005 or 2006? He started college in 2004, so this would have been 2005 or 2006. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. They dont look at lifestyle factors, exercise, sleep patterns, stress levels, dietall of which contribute to mental health.

Insurance 127
article thumbnail

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

Child Mind Intitute

But did you know that this simple practice of putting pen to paper has decades of scientific backing as a tool for mental health and personal growth? Heres why mental health professionals recommend journaling and what research tells us about its benefits. Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. I do know that I was also hospitalized in 2005, just as Hurricane Katrina was getting ready to make landfall. First, how many hours of sleep did I get the night before?

article thumbnail

It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. Drugs like mirtazapine improve appetite and sleep; this is a tonic effect.

article thumbnail

Grief and Burnout: The Challenge of Staying Out of Psychiatry

Mad in America

In one final location after which we returned home a young senior resident engaged me in a conversation and we talked mental health. I kept thinking he would get better, for that was the norm in our family, we had all dealt with intractable health issues. I recorded it in 2005. I was calm and loud.

article thumbnail

Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

Mad in America

Philips AIDS Center in a village near Anjar, Gujarat was established by Father Paul on 11 January 2005, after he lost his nephew Philip, 31 years old to AIDS. Jaya ben had been diagnosed with ‘psychosis unspecified’ along with HIV, and has been on different anti-psychotics and sleeping aids for more than 5 years. and Trundle, C.

article thumbnail

Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This ongoing failure can be traced back to the publication of DSM-III in 1980, when American psychiatry adopted a disease model for categorizing and treating mental disorders.