Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

In the mid-twentieth century, in addition to Illich, there were other prominent thinkers such as Erich Fromm and Lewis Mumford concerned that an increasingly technological, institutionalized, machine-like society was resulting in loss of our humanity.

Genetics and mental health 139

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ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH)

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Prior to COVID-19, youth and young adults in America were facing a mental health crisis; between 2007 and 2018, the suicide rate among populations ages 10 to 24 increased by 57.4%. [1] Vivek Murthy and his office on the most recent public health Advisory, titled Protecting Youth Mental Health.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Then, finally, technology offered a solution: insurmountably high fences and surveillance cameras. Was it the increase in cell phone use starting in 2007? Nearly a dozen Palo Alto teens died this way. Finally, the City of Palo Alto put a security guard there. The guard succeeded in wrestling some 18 more teens off of the tracks.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

However, in addition to these financial and political explanations, a fundamental cultural reason why psychiatry lives on is Western society’s worship of technology—but I’m getting ahead of myself. million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007. Psychiatry’s technology history is one of repeated failures.

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