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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

Mad in America

Joey developed akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and dystonia around 2021. This comprehensive analysis highlights the urgent need for reform in mental healthcare, advocating for a more humane and context-sensitive approach to treatment and support. Carly tells that Joey was on almost thirty different medications between 2015 and 2024.

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Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s Tale

Mad in America

O verwhelmed by despair and feeling like a shell of myself, I made a decision in August of 2021 that still haunts me. In June 2021, I was deemed permanent and stationary, meaning I would never be able to return to law enforcement again. I swallowed a handful of pills, hoping to escape the pain and confusion. I was tired of fighting.

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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

Mad in America

In 2021, Esquire quoted J Blakeson , writer and director behind I Care a Lot. In the deep waters of directing The Guardians, Mintz learned elder law, and the injustice and inhumane practice of legal guardianship is a calculated effort by the court, the attorneys, and the healthcare system. We talk for hours and hours each week.

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Mad in America

(European Brain Council) The biopsychosocial model is instead held up in these letters as an overarching solution to disagreements in psychiatry; depicted as a model which can unify all forms of mental healthcare under one church without the need for dissent or conflict between different schools of psychiatry.

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HIPAA-compliant email revisited

Reidbord's Reflections

In January 2021, I described my search for a HIPAA-compliant email provider for my practice, and reviewed several options. In the end I chose Hushmail for Healthcare. It was, and is, a good service: thoughtfully featured, reasonably priced (with minor changes since then), and fast support when needed.

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The Trauma of Psychosis: My “Bipolar” Journey

Mad in America

In May of 2021 I had a severe manic episode that led to psychosis. Thankfully I had access to amazing therapy and healthcare and was being supported at every step by an amazing wife so that I came out the far side. I found the psychiatrist that got me off the Abilify here on the Mad in America website.

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My Journey to Rebellious Health

Doctors In Distress Blog

As a GP trainee, my mental health took a nose dive in 2019 and I learnt the hard and lonely way that self-care as a healthcare professional is fundamental and lifesaving. The journey of reconnection and healing, as a healthcare professional, is both confronting and enlightening. And no one is going to do it for you.