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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

Mad in America

He went to his GP, who diagnosed him with “anxiety disorder” on top of his bipolar diagnosis and prescribed Xanax. A few months later, I was glad we had left this psychiatrist, because he had even falsely written in Matt’s records that I had a history of anxiety disorder. Imagine that?! Absolutely.

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

In 2020, RNA was coded for Covid-19’s protein, resulting in a drug that stimulated the immune response for Covid-19. None of the problems we think about when we think about mental disorder—mainly depression and the anxiety disorders—are explained by psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm, and not for want of trying.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

Mad in America

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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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

Mad in America

As I edited and added to this section in February 2020, I noticed a number of TV commercials about the management of TD. meprobamate) as well. With such frequent and severe adverse TD-inducing side effects, how can one justify the use of these medications?

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What is Telemedicine?

My Psychiatry

You can now chat with one of our providers online for a variety of different conditions, including: Depression Anxiety disorders ADHD & Substance abuse Addiction Alcohol abuse Insomnia Dementia or memory loss Bipolar disorder Our providers serve patients from teenage years to geriatric and older adults.

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How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Child Mind Intitute

Keough, PhD Psychologist, Anxiety Disorders Center Child Mind Institute Pretend play, also known as imaginative play, includes a range of imaginative behaviors and actions that become more complex over early childhood (Lillard et al., By Kathryn L. Dramatic pretend play games uniquely improve emotional control in young children.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

Mad in America

These drugs have often become the sole treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders including clinical depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other approved and off-label uses of these drugs.