Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
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 ). The idea was to see how my attitudes evolved over the coming five years: toward optimism, toward pessimism, or same-same.
Mad in America
JANUARY 31, 2025
E very time I put pen to paper about my story I shiver for I do not know what my pen will blacken the paper with. But I let it blacken, for maybe some part of the narrative will give further courage to another. That night, I dont know when, perhaps in October 2024, my sister was rushing me in her car through the night. I was calm and loud.
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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
About twenty years ago in 2005, I was 22 years old and in severe distress. A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). The bill would also increase the maximum duration of patients written consent from 30 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.
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