2023 Education Sleep and mental health 
Mad in America
JULY 20, 2024
For example, a 2023 study reported that 46 percent of college students had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder at some point in their lives, while a 2017 study found that use of psychiatric treatment had nearly doubled in college students since 2007, rising from 19 to 34 percent. Something about that just feels kind of dystopian.”
Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2025
R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. In 2023 there was little change in most countries average scores, but 35.8% The reasons for the nations poor mental health are multifaceted and difficult to resolve, however.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Vibrant Says… Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant) is described as “one of the nation’s leading mental health organizations.” But never have I ever ‘secret shopped’ anything in the ‘mental health’ world before. Mental health system providers rarely apologize, so that was meaningful even if only a small thing.
Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2024
T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. Even fewer spot the role assays play.
Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. Since 2010, trauma diagnoses among adolescents have surged, rising from about 3% in 2010 to over 8% by 2023.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
She took her own life on September 2, 2023. She was moved to the MPC Transitional Living Residence (TLR), also on Wards Island, on February 22, 2017, where she remained until her death on September 2, 2023. Died September 2, 2023. She was prescribed what she assumed were sleeping pills and had taken some to sleep.
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