Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. 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. 2017: The latest psychiatric depression drug “breakthrough”: “Here we go again”.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In 2017, suicide experts wrote in the Swedish medical journal that antidepressants, lithium, and clozapine prevent suicides, but several of their references were seriously misleading, and I noted that there is no reliable evidence that any drug can prevent suicide. [5] 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al.

Aging and mental health 145

Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health Insurance 145

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. Dr. B ordered a sleep study. I chose the latter.

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Nutrition and mood Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder 122

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.

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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. For Illich, the iatrogenesis of modern medicine is clinical when harm to individuals results specifically from medical treatment.

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Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 142

Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

1,2 There is now much evidence linking burnout to adverse patient safety outcomes, as well as data revealing the financial benefits and efficiency savings when colleagues are well and able to offer more compassionate care [3,4 So whatever your driver is, a thriving, mentally well workforce results in better patient care by all metrics.

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