2013 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
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.
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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
INTRODUCTION Background, Aim and Method Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by social communication difficulties and restricted repetitive thinking and behavior (Battle, 2013). Pending larger studies, we share the following case study, with the consent of those involved.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.
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