Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

She ended the conversation by telling me that I could ask the staff for more sleeping medication if I needed it and that she’d see me the following day. I roomed with a Portuguese woman who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I was discharged on December 14, 2021, but remnants of myself are still lingering around the hospital.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Siem: Often, the extent to which someone can go low correlates to how high they can go, like with mania in bipolar disorder. But when she came off Clozaril, she struggled to sleep. Normally, she sleeps 10 hours. I think the lack of sleep triggered the mania. Combined with the lack of sleep, it turned into mania.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Siem: Often, the extent to which someone can go low correlates to how high they can go, like with mania in bipolar disorder. But when she came off Clozaril, she struggled to sleep. Normally, she sleeps 10 hours. I think the lack of sleep triggered the mania. Combined with the lack of sleep, it turned into mania.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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