Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Linda Andre spent the last eight years of her life institutionalized at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where she died by suicide this month at age 63. In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen.

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Hospitality Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Education 98

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! This is the first step in evaluating any new drug, trying out the drug on normal people without the health problem under consideration.

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Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Aging and mental health 102

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD. The Office on Women’s Health makes similar recommendations as in the StatPearls article, but they place an emphasis on therapy, support groups, self-care, social support before turning to medication. We need pills, but we need much more.”

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Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood Aging and mental health Insurance 115

Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

Key findings from the most recent America’s Children in Brief report: Teen Substance Use In OctoberDecember 2020, about 46% of adolescents ages 1217 who used illicit drugs in the past year perceived that they were using those substances “a little less or much less” than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Poverty and mental health 40

Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health 40

Solara Mental Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A meta-analysis of studies done in 2010 estimates that 10.4% Eat well eating nutritious foods can help maintain your mental health. If youve got time, check out our 3 lifestyle changes for better mental health ! Take the proper steps to take care of your mental health. Sources Cleveland Clinic (Ed.).

Neurotransmitters and mental health 52

Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 7, 2024

A standard research technique to assess stress effects on blood pressure is to ask subjects to do mental arithmetic and it generally leads to a blood pressure effect like what the authors describe in this paper of 20 mm systolic or 10 mm diastolic. Access to the electronic health record can show long term trends. Epub 2010 Oct 26.

Sleep and mental health 52

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But back in 2009-2010, the years of the first of three “suicide clusters” in Palo Alto, teen suicides across America were rarer. And as we later found out, only 46% of the kids who died by suicide even had a known mental health problem. The numbers today truly are staggering. Pornography. at all, ever (“as if!”).

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Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Technology 108

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. I am a 41-year-old resident of Newington since 2010, though I grew up in Middletown. An abridged account of my experience is on Mental Health Today (C. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing Legal 121

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 90

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

These positive outcomes also include improved relational functioning, enhanced mentalization abilities, and increased quality of life. It is well established that ASD is linked to difficulties with an ability what Peter Fonagy and colleagues call mentalizing; a cognitive and emotional understanding of human behaviours.

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Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40

Mad in America

JANUARY 13, 2024

Since she was once deemed too “mentally ill” to run her own life, it’s a civil- and disability-rights landmark that the Grammy-winning performer is finally willing and able to share her side of the story. He and Lynne divorced in 2002 but reunited in 2010 and recently called it quits for good.) And it isn’t pretty. Spoilers ahead.)

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Trauma and the brain Legal Aging and mental health Family dynamics 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

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Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 132

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In 2010, I was one of the authors of a published critique of the STAR*D study’s reported findings. The STAR*D study was the third of three major studies conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to determine the effectiveness of drug treatment of depression. He, too, was spurned.

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