2011 Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
DECEMBER 29, 2023
I was diagnosed with Bipolar II at age 12 and attempted suicide at age 13. A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. I tried going back to school after the brain injury, but between the bipolar disorder and the head trauma, I couldn’t handle the stress and pressure anymore.
Mad in America
JANUARY 20, 2024
This paper is surprising since Torrey has long argued that schizophrenia is a brain disease to be treated biomedically. Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Fuller Torrey. Nor have any new treatments become available from this research.”
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
The idea comes from 20+ years of experience working with people with complex mood disorders. Can we identify them before they start an antidepressant? With so much debate and discussion about “how many” (including the previous two essays in this series), it’s surprising that so little has been written about “why some and not others?”
Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
By late November, 2018, Matt found a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with Bipolar 1 disorder after one visit, prescribed Latuda, tapered him off Prozac, and practically sentenced him to be medicated for life with an overall “fair” prognosis. The ER physician had given him Prozac. I could see his lifeless eyes.
Mad in America
MARCH 15, 2025
Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Challenging the biological model of depression feels like a game of whack-a-mole: as soon as you put one theory to bed, another one sprouts up.
International Society for Interpersonal Psychother
NOVEMBER 24, 2024
The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Individuals on the autism spectrum often experience comorbid depression, social stress, and difficulties in relating to themselves and others. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).
Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working. When I look at the numbers—the number of suicides, the number of disabilities, the mortality data—it’s abysmal, and it’s not getting any better.”
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