Mad in America
JANUARY 16, 2024
S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. It has become obvious that we need to be better at addressing issues related to our psychological well-being. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.
Mad in America
JANUARY 22, 2024
In 2014, after years of struggling in the press, the courts, and the scientific community, a group of researchers finally gained access to at least some of the study data with GSK fighting against the light of day at every turn. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. Y ou bet it is!
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Mad in America
JUNE 17, 2024
It all started in 2014, less than a year after my honorable discharge from the Army, and shortly after returning home from Afghanistan, where I’d served as an Apache helicopter mechanic. M y brother Jesse sat next to me on the couch in my living room. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us. My mind raced.
The Art of Healing Trauma
NOVEMBER 17, 2019
This is the earliest somewhat coherent journal entry I can find that I wrote after the traumas as I was too ill and in too much chaos to write anything down for a couple years. This short story about a train trip shows how the many symptoms of PTSD combine to have a devastating impact to one’s Sense of Self.
Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
For a period of four years, from 2014 through 2018 during his decline and overwhelm, Matt was prescribed five different antidepressants layered on top of one another without tapering, which ignited a cycle of adverse reactions. Thankfully, from my work as a music college professor, I understood the connection between music and the brain.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
We both thought the vulnerability was accentuated when I didn’t take my meds—the longest period of negligence was 10 days when my mother died in 2014 (nothing happened)—but we didn’t know anything about the withdrawal syndrome then. OCD has a strong genetic component and was thought to be incurable.
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Epigenetic tags allow each of these cells to “read” only the parts of the DNA sequence that are relevant to them, in order to become skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, muscle cells, and other unique cells with the right structure and functions for their specific role. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.
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