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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

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H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. The relationship between childhood trauma and later development of psychotic symptoms has received increasing attention in recent years. Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology Allan M.

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Antipsychotics Lead to Worse Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis

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Researchers have increasingly identified childhood trauma as the primary cause of psychosis , even as biological theories involving dopamine and genetics have been debunked. This is consistent with previous studies that found that experiencing childhood trauma , not heritability, was associated with psychosis.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Then in 2023, Ed Pigott and his co-researchers, utilizing the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials initiative, conducted a reanalysis of STAR*D, which was published in BMJ. The cover of the December 2023 Psychiatric Times issue announced : “STAR*D Dethroned? But What If It’s Broken?” among those who were on probation.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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The National Centre for PTSD attributes this to the fact that men are more likely to experience trauma, but women are more likely to develop PTSD, possibly due to higher emotional sensitivity and reactivity, which increases susceptibility to mood disorders. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

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Additionally, a 2023 study in JAMA found that “poor body health, particularly of the metabolic, hepatic and immune systems, was a more marked manifestation of mental illness than brain changes,” showing the need to look beyond the brain and to other body systems to identify ways to support those with mental health concerns.

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Embracing the Shadow—Charlie Morley on Lucid Dreaming as Therapy

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So the elevator pitch is that anything you can treat through hypnotherapy, you can also treat through lucid dreaming whether it’s working with confidence, working with PTSD or childhood trauma. It was undertaken by the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California and it was reported in the journal Traumatology in June 2023.