Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. Less publicized in 2022 was another powerful discrediting of psychiatry’s neurobiological disease model.

Poverty and mental health 145

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net.

Sleep and mental health 142

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Neurotransmitters and mental health Resilience and coping 142

Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Five months after Prozac came to market, the NIMH launched a “Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment” campaign. Two years later, in a National Institute of Health study that compared Zoloft to St. Most depressions are self-limited,” wrote Jonathan Cole, head of the NIMH’s Psychopharmacology Service Center, in 1964.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 144

Neurotransmitters and mental health Hospitality Education Self-awareness 144

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The young dancer’s story—at her request and her father’s, she’ll remain anonymous—illustrates both the lure and harms of social media, which has been drawing more and more attention of late for its ubiquity, its addictiveness, its corporate habits, and its role in the youth mental health crisis. hours a day on social media.”

Aging and mental health 132

Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 132