2020 Healthcare Self-awareness 
Mad in America
DECEMBER 25, 2023
Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. The cost of these drugs was projected to be $62 billion in 2020, not including physician office visits to prescribe and monitor the patients on these drugs. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. Life expectancy has increased globally due to advancements in medical technology, better hygiene, and improved access to healthcare.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Approximately one year later in July 2020, the FCC adopted rules to begin establishing #988, and in October of the same year, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act was signed into law. I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I
Mad in America
JUNE 27, 2024
A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Awareness of this potential should, at least, have a role to play in guiding how services approach ‘sustaining remission’, and the advice they offer.
Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2025
S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. is the only developed nation with for-profit healthcare.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
This was a follow-up to a similar report in 2020. However, once again in this report its destructive impact is neglected and actively obscured by psychology in the service of neoliberal ideology that advocates extreme self-interest, competition, over-consumption, and greed. The results of the report were alarming and concerning.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.
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