2023 Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
JUNE 17, 2024
My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. M y brother Jesse sat next to me on the couch in my living room. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us. My mind raced. I believed my brother’s life was in danger. I believed I was the only person who knew it and only I could save him.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop.
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ADDitude
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.
Bullet Psych
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Alcohol is reinforcing because it increases dopamine release in the brain's reward system, particularly in the mesolimbic pathway, leading to feelings of pleasure, relaxation, and euphoria. Epidemiology & Pathogenesis 4 , 5 Genetics , environmental influences , and mental health comorbidities contribute to vulnerability.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. Dubey, 2023). A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Ninety-one years later in 2023, over 50,000 Americans died of suicide; more than any year on record. The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. I want to feel something strongly.” Today, 65 million Americans are on one or more prescribed psychiatric medications.
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. In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.
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