2017 Education Sleep and mental health 
Mad in America
JULY 20, 2024
For example, a 2023 study reported that 46 percent of college students had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder at some point in their lives, while a 2017 study found that use of psychiatric treatment had nearly doubled in college students since 2007, rising from 19 to 34 percent. Something about that just feels kind of dystopian.”
Mad in America
OCTOBER 2, 2023
What we need more than anything else in psychiatry are withdrawal clinics, with easy and quick access free of charge, and education about the harmful effects of psychiatric drugs, how to stop them, and above all: How to avoid starting them. 609 Progress is very slow. What’s the difference? They won’t admit they got it wrong.
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Mad in America
AUGUST 23, 2024
After Mel passed [in 2017], a woman who was the coordinator of student affairs at her high school sent me a note acknowledging that Mel would have made a big mark in the world. She was never again able to function at the high level she did before, sleeping a lot at first and then developing insomnia afterward.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Calming It Down In 2017, I began seeing the new psychiatrist, Dr. B, and he followed the clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for treating drug-induced movement disorders by prescribing a beta-blocker and then later, a centrally acting alpha agonist, or Alpha-1, also an antihypertensive. If and when something helped, it never lasted.
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. had no clinically significant benefit over a placebo.”
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
She was moved to the MPC Transitional Living Residence (TLR), also on Wards Island, on February 22, 2017, where she remained until her death on September 2, 2023. Linda was subsequently discharged to the MPC Transitional Living Residence on February 22, 2017. She was force drugged and force hospitalized.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
I have seen this occur in all walks of life and the phenomena has no respect for intelligence, education or economic position in society. Psychiatry has been going down this mental disease road for 75 years or more, and I doubt, for psychiatry, that there is any turning back.
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