Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I am a 41-year-old resident of Newington since 2010, though I grew up in Middletown. 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.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 13, 2024

S emi-retired pop star Britney Spears is almost as famous for her 13+-year conservatorship —during which all personal, professional, and medical decisions were under legal control of her father—as for her music. So as a longtime reporter on her case , I was eager to read her autobiography, pointedly titled The Woman in Me. Spoilers ahead.)

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