Mad in America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — otherwise known as the American dream. But that suggestion was disregarded.

Legal 133

Legal Self-awareness Education 133

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I had had enough of the gypsy life, and I found a somatic coach to help me process, heal and learn self-regulating skills. I had more awareness. I worked with a doctor during 2020 and in the spring of 2021 to deal with my autoimmune symptoms that showed up as brain inflammation, but this was the last time. In some ways it did.

Trauma and the brain 141

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 141

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

To imagine these people as having traversed these landscapes losing all their belongings and sense of self. The residents seem somewhat aware of this; however, it is the medicalization of their illness experience that they resist. 2020), Unsettled Care: Temporality, Subjectivity, and the Uneasy Ethics of Care. and Trundle, C.

Sleep and mental health 104

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 104

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

Sleep and mental health 130

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 130

Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This is all happening while their brains, and their senses of self, are still developing. A wave of studies published after the 2016 and 2020 elections found increases in election-related stress and anxiety [2]. A wave of studies published after the 2016 and 2020 elections found increases in election-related stress and anxiety [2].

Group therapy 52

Group therapy Resilience and coping Self-awareness Dialectical Behavior Therapy 52

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.

Early intervention 118

Early intervention Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 118

Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

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. Drug therapy of these disorders was said to cost less than, for example, treatment by a doctoral-trained psychologist.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 77

Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 77

Mad in America

JULY 16, 2024

In essence he was conveying that commitment to “free association” during psychotherapy—or speaking as honestly and freely about inner thoughts and feelings as possible, genuine emotional truth telling —allows for visceral, socially unacceptable urges and emotions to enter our awareness that typically leave a person feeling out of control.

Self-awareness 126

Self-awareness 126

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.

Trauma and the brain 143

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 143

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.

Resilience and coping 128

Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 128

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Raising awareness about depression, screening for it, and teaching that its common but underdiagnosed, at first glance seem like good things. So its particularly easy to get them to adopt an inferior self-image.

Healthcare 90

Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 90

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). Not caring for or being aware of basic attachment needs in the interaction with others is probably a high risk factor for depression and other mental illnesses.

Autism spectrum 40

Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40

Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I started self-harming, just to feel my skin and keep the emotional pain at bay. At age 15, I was sent to a psychiatrist when I was unable to stay awake for more than a couple of hours, or eat proper food for several days, and my self-harming with sharp objects and cigarettes got too visible and out of control.

Aging and mental health 125

Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Anxiety disorders 125

Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. Research into therapists who abuse clients, therefore, highlights how therapeutic models and ideologies are themselves driving and justifying abuse beyond the personal interest in self-gratification.

Psychedelic therapy 114

Psychedelic therapy Legal Aging and mental health Self-awareness 114

Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Aggression has components that occur on a strictly verbal level and aggression toward property or inanimate objects as well as self (2). In the main areas I have discussed the violence has increased to the point that the Department of Justice is aware of it and successfully prosecutes cases (3,4,5).

Aging and mental health 52

Aging and mental health Legal Self-awareness 52