Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy 145

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Childhood trauma Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 145

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?

Genetics and mental health 142

Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 142

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

I don’t think there’s enough actual oversight, whether civilian or governmental, of the mental health system, and it does a ton of harm.” In a 2005 paper , Gottstein wrote that the “involuntary mental illness system operates largely illegally.” Russell’s request was again denied.

Legal 137

Legal Manufacturing Sleep and mental health Pharmaceuticals 137