Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

T his is the story of some of the delusions I experienced for a period of ten years starting in 2013, my spontaneous recovery after a substantial period of time, and some reflections on the psychosis and the recovery. The journey was a personal one and the reflections are also personal.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

One study [Scholastic, 2013] documents a drop from 48% of 6- to 8-year-olds down to 24% of 15- to 17-year-olds who are daily readers; another [National Center for Educational Statistics, 2013] shows a drop from 53% of 9-year-olds to 19% of 17-year-olds.”

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, 1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death. London: Radcliffe Publishing; 2013. O vertreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. 2 Gøtzsche PC.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

Thomas Insel, quoted in 2013. The discarding of the DSM , psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, was actually called for by Insel in 2013 , and in his 2022 book Healing , he acknowledged that the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness has now been discarded. “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.

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Mad in America

MAY 20, 2024

In a 2013 systematic review , researchers found that recovery rates for those with psychosis have declined over time, with a particularly steep decline in the modern era of antipsychotic drug treatment. In both of these studies, the researchers carefully accounted for confounding by indication and other possible factors.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

This included 3714 adolescents ages 13-20 who received a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder between 2003 and 2013 and had never before taken antipsychotic drugs. Bergström and Gauffin used the Finnish National Health Registry to identify all those who met the study criteria.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The construct originally appeared as ADD in the 1980 edition of psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, and it was modified in the 1994 and 2013 editions. It conceptualizes a set of behavioral tendencies as a distinct condition marked by inattentiveness and impulsivity.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

London: Radcliffe Publishing; 2013. [36] London: Radcliffe Publishing; 2013. Ingen over Gøtzsche. Dagens Medicin 2015;Oct 23. [35] 35] Gøtzsche PC. Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care. 36] Gøtzsche PC. Deadly psychiatry and organised denial. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2015. [37]

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Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

Whereas from 2001 to 2008 I was hospitalized at a rate of almost once per year, from 2008 to 2013, I was hospitalized only once every three years. I was hospitalized in 2013 in the context of my separation and divorce. Based on my earlier trajectory, this meant that about four hospitalizations were avoided.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Despite its central role as the fount of all things bad in psychiatry, there is only one reference to this fabled entity, to a paper by Brett Deacon from 2013. Quickly, I found my copy and rechecked it in case I’d missed something: No, I was right. There is nothing in that paper that says such a model actually exists.

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ADDitude

MARCH 10, 2025

youths ages 12 to 17 over nine years, from 2013 to 2023. This finding is consistent with previous research suggesting that untreated ADHD may double the risk 5 of developing a substance use disorder (SUD), and that early and continual treatment for ADHD can reduce this risk. youths with ADHD, the researchers wrote.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan; 2013. [6] Exploratory analyses of efficacy data from schizophrenia trials in support of new drug applications submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration. J Clin Psychiatry 2012;73:856–64. [5] 5] Moncrieff J. The bitterest pills. 6] Rettssak mot staten for tvangsbruk. NRK 2024; Nov 22. [7] 7] Gøtzsche P.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Copyright (c) 2013 Douglas J. You’d mellowed by the time my sister came; She loves you and she calls you every night. It’s just as well with me, as I have my Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Westberg Doug Westberg is a peer support specialist, mental health activist, author and performance artist in Portland, Oregon.

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Postpartum Progress

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

By Erica Monzingo I got pregnant with my daughter the summer of 2013. Despite what the movies and birth-story blogs tell us, many mothersdon’t feel an instant connection with their babies (whether it’s their first, second or fifth). That’s okay.

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JULY 31, 2024

2015; Lindsey & Colwell, 2013). Creativity Pretend play appears to facilitate the creative thinking process in children (Russ & Wallace, 2013). 2021; Galyer & Evans, 2001; Gilpin et al., These findings support the notion that pretend play provides an opportunity to exercise emotional control skills. Goswami (Ed.),

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

At this time, I also needed to pay for my second-year master’s programme and there was no money so I thought I would drop out, but God used someone to provide for me and I was able to pay and conclude my master’s programme in 2013. However, I have not been able to go for my PhD since then due to financial constraints.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

It was only at the 7-year follow-up that social functioning was better in people who had originally been randomised to reduction, and that relapses had evened out ( Wunderink et al, 2013 ). The RADAR results show how difficult it is for people to stop antipsychotics once they have been taking them for a while.

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JUNE 25, 2024

The law was superseded by another called the New York SAFE Act which was passed in 2013 that allowed for Assisted Outpatient Treatment for at minimum a year—an “improvement” on the six months that Kendra’s Law could originally mandate. People who aren’t seeking medical treatment shouldn’t be forced to be medically treated.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2024

My baseline state on psychiatry’s drugs had become intolerable as early as 2013, causing severe pain, panic attacks, depression, anxiety, weight gain, fatigue, irrational behaviour, and a seemingly infinite supply of physical and psychological ailments.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

MARCH 7, 2024

This initiative was born out of a council meeting of the Asian Network of Bipolar Disorder (ANBD) in 2013, at which Prof. The 30th of March marks an important day on the global calendar World Bipolar Day (WBD). Pichet Udomratn proposed a date to bring worldwide attention to bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2013, The Executive Committee of the Northern California Regional Organization of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry wrote a letter to the Ethics Committee at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the owner of JAACAP. The inquiry is considered complete, and as such, your letter will not be published in the Journal.”

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Evidently, in 2013 the autism criteria in the DSM-5 were intentionally expanded so that more children could qualify for the therapeutic services they required. A range of symptoms to establish a diagnosis? This would be amusing, if the implications were not so serious.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Work had been expressly forbidden as being detrimental to my wellbeing, but in 2013, financial necessity fueled my resolve, and I returned to work in a local emergency department. Fear secured my compliance. Gaining my freedom has been gradual, and it took until 2018 to fully escape from the shackles of psychiatry.

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 7, 2024

2013 Dec;62(6):982-7. Epub 2013 Sep 16. PMID: 37991787; PMCID: PMC10851097. 2: Franklin SS, Thijs L, Hansen TW, O'Brien E, Staessen JA. White-coat hypertension: new insights from recent studies. Hypertension. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.113.01275. PMID: 24041952.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Similar results were found in an RCT done by Lex Wunderink, reported in 2013 in JAMA Psychiatry. The severe short-term and long-term iatrogenic adverse effects of antipsychotic drugs are uncontroversial.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

DSM-5 (2013) moved away from listing specific events and focused more on the subjective experience, including responses to threats of death, serious injury, or violence. Later, DSM-III-R (1987) expanded the definition to include sexual assault, and DSM-IV (1994) emphasized individual responses like fear or helplessness.

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Mad in America

APRIL 27, 2024

Here is a graphic, published in 2013 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, that told of how there was “ongoing impairment” in only 30% of the patients. Moreover, it was presented as the cumulative remission rate at the end of one year, which indicated that those who had remitted had remained well.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

A 2013 national survey, issued by the U.S. Specifically: Financial Poverty: Personal and Family Challenges to the Successful Transition from Welfare to Work (1996) reported that Americans on public assistance have at least three times higher rate of depression.

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Solara Mental Health

JULY 6, 2023

Most recently her essay about her struggle with postpartum depression was published in Mothering Through the Darkness: Women Open Up About the Postpartum Experience.

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In a 2013 review, Norovirus was the second most common infection disease outbreak affecting psychiatric hospitals (13). 2013 Jan;34(1):80-8. There is some additional information at a public health link but not much more. Chronic Disease Prevalence in the US: Sociodemographic and Geographic Variations by Zip Code Tabulation Area.

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Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Smith, PhD – NIH/NIMH, Bethesda, MD 2016 – Peter Nagele, MD – Washington University School of Medicine, St.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The article also cites a study from 2013 that “found that including a doula in prenatal care reduces adverse birth outcomes while benefiting mothers, babies, and the medical community as a whole. ” According to an article published on the website Healthline called “What Postpartum Care Looks Like Around the World, and Why the U.S.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

As my parents witnessed Matt’s journey, they remembered that my sister, who died in 2013 at the age of 37 of a leukemia that usually strikes after age 60, had suffered terribly because of antidepressants.

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Solara Mental Health

AUGUST 30, 2021

Sheldon (2013) Trying to be happier really can work: Two experimental studies, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 8:1, 23-33, DOI: 10.1080/17439760.2012.747000 and Cortelli Pietro 2016 Brainheart interactions: physiology and clinical implications Phil. 3742015018120150181 [link] Yuna L. Ferguson & Kennon M.

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Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Gordon, MD, PhD – Columbia University 2013 – Catherine J. Meyer, MD, PhD – University of Toronto 2012 – Joshua A.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Mindfulness & Self-Compassion for Teen ADHD: Build Executive Functioning Skills, Increase Motivation & Improve Self-Confidence. Instant Help Books, Oakland. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications Cooper-Kahn, J.and Foster, M. Boosting Executive Skills in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

This initiative had been established in 2013 to enable researchers to reanalyze data sets from publicly funded trials, particularly when there was reason to think that the initial results may have been incorrectly reported.

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