Mad in America
JULY 20, 2024
For example, a 2023 study reported that 46 percent of college students had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder at some point in their lives, while a 2017 study found that use of psychiatric treatment had nearly doubled in college students since 2007, rising from 19 to 34 percent. Something about that just feels kind of dystopian.”
Mad in America
MARCH 5, 2025
His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Researchers in Australia assigned more than 1,000 young teenagers to one of two classes: either a typical middle-school health class or one that taught a version of a mental-health treatment called dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT. Another, they were told to sleep more, eat right, and exercise.
Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] Suicide risk assessment and intervention in people with mental illness. 4] Gøtzsche PC.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 23, 2023
A 2007 paper surveying US department chairs of medicine and psychiatry reported that 67% of them had received “discretionary funds” from industry within the last year. He mentioned that the DSM-IV criteria for primary insomnia do not consider one of the commonest non-medical reasons for difficulty sleeping, a noisy environment.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
She was prescribed what she assumed were sleeping pills and had taken some to sleep. When the NYS Office of Mental Health held a conference on research in 1988, Linda and I both attended. I called Allen Markman and he went to her apartment. What had happened: Linda went to some clinic complaining about insomnia.
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