Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I Care a Lot, starring Rosamund Pike, dropped on Netflix in 2020. How many more horrors could we take in 2020? Lilly keeps saying it feels like a movie, when I remember… I’ve seen this movie. It is a horror movie veiled by black comedy.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

B etween 2014 and 2020, the UN published three reports on mental health, prepared by the special rapporteur on the right to health (Dainius Puras). These called for a radical change in the practice and organization of mental health care across the world.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2024

The 59-year-old died suddenly on May 17, 2020, because — his family believes — the pump malfunctioned and delivered a fatal overdose of insulin. The pump, manufactured by device maker Medtronic, connected plastic tubing to an insulin reservoir, which Gautney set to release doses of the vital hormone over the course of the day.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Positive and negative effects of antipsychotic medication: an international online survey of 832 recipients. Current Drug Safety, 14 , 173-181. Using open questions to understand 650 people’s experiences with antipsychotic drugs. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 46, 896-604. Psychiatry Research, 285 , 112754. TAYLOR, S., London: Public Health England, 2019.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis. I took a serious case of Stockholm Syndrome home with me in the taxi I left in that late October day in 2020.

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Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

I tapered off citalopram with tapering strips between October 2019 and January 2020. Between April 2020 (last pill) and August (4 months later), I was not that worried yet. On August 8, 2020, I first noticed that something was going wrong in my head. In 2020, Charlotte Bouwman held a sit-down event at the Ministry of Health.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 4, 2023

As I wrote in a blog on August 2020 , my seeming pessimism was commented upon by MIA readers, and I took the criticism to heart, and renewed my efforts to help people to stop SSRIs. My blog post goes on to explain this in more detail.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

I lived a normal life without any medication until mid-2020 when I had another episode and was taken to another hospital where I was admitted but ran away the next day to another town because I believed what I needed was prayer. My parents looked for me and found me but when they wanted to take me to the first hospital I refused.

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ADDitude

MARCH 10, 2025

[link] 6 Boland, H., DiSalvo, M., Woodworth, K. Faraone, S. V., & Biederman, J. A literature review and meta-analysis on the effects of ADHD medications on functional outcomes. Journal of Psychiatric Research , 123, 2130. link] 7 Kollins, S.H., Sweitzer, M.M., McClernon, F.J.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Those numbers doubled between 2020 and 2021 — the latest figures publicly available — even as the statewide average for other inpatient facilities barely increased. Other large safety net facilities in California and across the country do not use physical restraint at anywhere near the same rates as L.A.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Among them is Paris Hilton, who first told her story in a 2020 documentary and is now lobbying for recently introduced legislation to stop the abuse.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The authors examined data from everyone living in Sweden aged 6-64 who received an ADHD diagnosis or drugs to treat ADHD between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2020. Data on 278,027 service users were explored for inclusion in the study.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In a nationwide 2020 survey , nearly two-thirds of teens reported primarily negative emotions during the school day—while suicidal behaviors in youth are correlated with whether school is in session. When you ask students what causes their distress, they most often mention school.

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Mad in America

JULY 20, 2024

This trend, which began in 2020, has evolved into a trademarked wellness company that hosts events and sells merchandise while partnering with popular fitness brands. This is particularly problematic considering that students facing economic hardship are more likely to struggle with their mental health.

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Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

New research identifies differing trends in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses among adolescents and adults, including an increase among adults from 2020 to 2023. The study found a significant downward trends in ADHD incidence among adults from 2016 to 2020 and adolescents from 2016 to 2018.

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Mad in America

MARCH 27, 2024

The subsequent genome-wide association (GWAS) and polygenic score studies Murray promoted in his 2020 book Human Diversity are subject to low scores , environmental confounding , and other significant problems described by the scholars we cited in our article.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We have been living through historic times of death, dying, and loss since 2020. The sheer scale of pandemic-related death and grief in 2020 spurred psych professionals to add Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) to the DSM-5. In the end, I only got to celebrate that one birthday with her. It was formally added in March 2022.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 30, 2024

People Over Pills My retirement from the Air Force in 2020 was medically mandated due to the volume and intensity of the therapy I was attending over the previous eighteen months—combined with the medications I was prescribed. Sobriety, social interaction, movement, and holistic healing methods proved to work for me.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

Thus, to recognize the act of caring itself as resistance, resistance to the biomedicalization and dehumanization of their illness experience, and as acts of solidarity and survival in this world (Cook, Trundle, 2020). 2020), Unsettled Care: Temporality, Subjectivity, and the Uneasy Ethics of Care. link] Charani, Esmita et al.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This represents a significant shift in PTSD diagnoses from predominantly affecting men in the 1980s, when men constituted about 70% of diagnosed cases, to now predominantly affecting women, who by 2020 made up 70% of diagnosed cases. Videos went viral of people unsolicited yelling their trauma stories at unwilling drive-through personnel.

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Centre for Mental Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In 2020, like a lot of UK charities, Centre for Mental Health made a public commitment to anti-racist practice in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in the United States. Given the number of pledges made during 2020 and thereafter, its up to all of us who work for charities in the UK to stand by those promises and make them real.

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Mad in America

JUNE 21, 2024

Cody with his wife and daughters, Christmas 2020 I remembered seeing bottles of pills in the basement where Cody kept many of his things. We were trying to put together the pieces, repeating over and over what everyone said: “But he just wouldn’t leave his girls.” We went down there and counted them.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In 2020, the UK mental health charity Mind said it signposted people to street drug charities to help them withdraw from depression pills because of the lack of available alternatives. We uploaded all 8 peer reviews, our comments to them, and our final protocol, as part of an article we published about the affair in 2020.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ Exuberance Unchecked by Reality In “What Can Physicians Learn from Benjamin Rush, Blood, and the Red Cross?” ( Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities , 2020), Ryan Hill notes , “Despite the adamant opposition he encountered from many of his contemporaries, Dr. Benjamin Rush was undeterred.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In 2020, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture took up the issue of forced treatment in psychiatry. The CRPD declared that people with disabilities should enjoy the same rights and fundamental freedoms as everyone else, and, in essence, declared that forced treatment and forced hospitalization should end.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Neuroinflammation as a risk factor for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 182, 2234. link] 6 He, Y., L., & Ke, F. Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and ADHD: Results From a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Cohort Studies. Journal of Attention Disorders, 24(12), 16371647.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2025

Like most people, I didn’t know it was possible to dream while awake until I experienced it firsthand in 2020 during hypnotherapy sessions to alleviate my chronic shoulder pain caused by the stress from homeschooling my children while managing a business.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A 2016 Cochrane review concluded that there was insufficient evidence that regularly administering surveys contributed to patient improvements in primary care, and an updated review in 2020 concluded similarly that the scores from these surveys needed to be ‘interpreted with caution’.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In their own work, the psychological researchers have shown how school environments (the soil) influence the success of interventions (the seeds) designed to motivate students (Walton & Yeager, 2020). Mend it or end it: Redirecting the search for interactions in the organizational sciences. Organizational Research Methods , 20 , 549573.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 13, 2025

shuttered in March 2020, Jamie Wyss, an elementary school counselor at the Virginia Beach City Public Schools system in Virginia, vividly remembers quickly assembling paper packets on social-emotional learning to hand out to parents. As COVID surged and schools across the U.S.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

By 2020, a local newspaper reported that 10 patients had died from hunger at that same hospital. The New York Times titled a piece “Inside Venezuela’s Crumbling Mental Hospitals” , describing the Pampero hospital where patients complained of being hungry.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

I wrote about the possible ways of explaining an adverse outcome after stopping a drug almost two decades ago now ( Moncrieff, 2006a ; Moncrieff 2006b ), and other eminent researchers have echoed my analysis ( Tondo & Balessarini, 2020 ). I think this is the case for some people.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

The first Mental State of the World Reportreleased by The Global Mind Project , which has hosted online surveys examining global trends in mental wellness since 2020, found respondents from South Africa and the UK had the poorest mental health of the 64 countries represented. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report.

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Mental Health America (MHA)

APRIL 19, 2023

This report was developed to provide community-level findings from MHA Screening data from 2020-2022 in Cook County, Illinois and discuss potential policy and programming opportunities to address mental health needs locally and at the state-level.

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million (as of school year 2020-21) eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities, including behavioral health disabilities. Department of Education’s 2022 Annual Report to Congress ) In 2020, 9.7% Children and youth ages 3 through 21 receive special education and related services under IDEA Part B.

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My Psychiatry

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Increased use of Telemedicine since the Pandemic The telehealth and telemedicine sector has sharply risen ever since the start of the Pandemic CDC, which issued strict instructions at the beginning of February 2020, to adopt social distancing practices and use online means for their healthcare such as working with a psychiatrist.

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

These mechanisms are not established, and arguably never will be, since mental illness typically consists of complex situations that are unlikely to be explained by a deterministic, mechanical model of causation (Moncrieff, 2020).

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