2023 Legal Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.
Mad in America
JUNE 17, 2024
I was grappling with the pressures of balancing the needs of my teenagers, who were struggling in different ways, and my two preschoolers with developmental delays that no professional could explain — all while attempting to manage and overcome my own trauma from military service. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us.
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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. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?
Mad in America
JANUARY 31, 2025
But to her and everyone who saw me I remained seemingly coherent, intelligent and threatening with legal action if they tried injecting anything. E very time I put pen to paper about my story I shiver for I do not know what my pen will blacken the paper with. She took me to three in the city, big ones. I was calm and loud. Why would I?
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. Prevalence : Data from the 2023 United States National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) 10.2% Highest rates in ages 1829.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Dubey, 2023). A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep.
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