Mad in America
JUNE 14, 2024
This was a mental hospital — my new home. The most desperate year By 2010, I’d been depressed for three years without respite. I’d thought about suicide every day, but until 2010, it was a daydream. In 2010, I felt a serious pull to take action. 2010 was different. He could feel my pain.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. Since 2010, trauma diagnoses among adolescents have surged, rising from about 3% in 2010 to over 8% by 2023.
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Mad in America
MARCH 2, 2024
In 2009-2010, I had a very tough time. Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? It was also then that I started taking quetiapine (Seroquel) in addition to citalopram for a better night’s sleep. But afterwards, I picked up my life.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD. Kelly Brogan , a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, reports significant concerns about brexanolone.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Again, what is “psychosis,” and why do I object to it so casually being used to describe people experiencing various mental health struggles? Caveat: I’m not talking about physiologically or chemically induced psychosis, but that which is associated with mental trauma and dissociation.) She was disoriented!
Mad in America
AUGUST 10, 2024
It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me.
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?
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