Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child offers this definition of EF skills: “Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. A good starting point is the term “executive function.”

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Self-awareness Autism spectrum Education 102

Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. Although a growing number of people are aware of problems with psychiatric treatment, what remains taboo is challenging fundamental assumptions that equate mental health concerns with biomedical disorders.

Trauma and the brain 111

Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model 111

Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2024

I might harness my occupational therapist’s skills to develop a self-reflection tool and make it available to independent users. Clarifications I am aware that the Social-Emotional Distress field has not been formally defined as such. My contribution to this space is yet to be explored. Time will tell.

Healthcare 132

Healthcare Self-awareness 132

Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

On the 3rd of October 2023 when he went to hospital for the last time I had a meeting with my soon-to-be PhD supervisor, online. That is the subjectivation I am keenly aware of and now capable of extricating myself and others out of. When will they self-reflect on the nature of their care? Who needs such violent care?

Sleep and mental health 101

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Hospitality Legal 101

Mad in America

APRIL 27, 2024

However, when Pigott and colleagues published their patient-level analysis of the STAR*D outcomes in July 2023, it seemed that surely this was now a story that the media could no longer ignore. Readers could see for themselves how the STAR*D investigators had violated their own protocol. Yet, no mainstream media reported on this scandal.

Self-awareness 145

Self-awareness Depression treatment 145

Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Anniek: I had cleared six months of time to make sure I had time for optimal self-care. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

Sleep and mental health 142

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Neurotransmitters and mental health Resilience and coping 142

Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In October 2023 I wrote an article for Mad in America, “Survivors and Families Working Together for Change.” Whether the anger is turned inward on the self or outward toward others, dreadful destruction results.” Now I am aware that meaning is manifested in the way I live my life rather than in the ruminating.

Hospitality 114

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2024

His body of work, including the critically acclaimed Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology (Routledge, 2023), offers a profound reimagining of psychology, interweaving it with the arts and humanities to better understand the human condition. Reimagining the Story of Dementia (Brill | Sense).

Self-awareness 109

Self-awareness Construction Education 109

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

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?”

Poverty and mental health 145

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

It’s not surprising for a company that reportedly spent over $100 million on advertising in 2023, making it the country’s projected leading sponsor of podcasts. Patients often find such a level of self-disclosure about the therapist’s problems burdensome and distracting, and I immediately felt less confidence in her ability to help.

Insurance 143

Insurance Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 143

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

A lucid dream is any dream where you’re actively aware of the fact that you’re dreaming as the dream is happening. If you do that as you’re falling asleep, it’s a self-hypnosis technique to help you remember your dreams. Morley: My job is to teach people how to have lucid dreams. Tonight, I remember my dreams.

Trauma and the brain 97

Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness Mindfulness practices 97

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.

Trauma and the brain 143

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 143

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

T his month the American Psychological Association (APA) released its report, “Stress in America 2023: A Nation Recovering From Collective Trauma.” For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. This was a follow-up to a similar report in 2020.

Resilience and coping 128

Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 128

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Raising awareness about depression, screening for it, and teaching that its common but underdiagnosed, at first glance seem like good things. So its particularly easy to get them to adopt an inferior self-image.

Healthcare 90

Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 90

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. Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. I want poetry. I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”

Trauma and the brain 111

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Legal Sleep and mental health 111

Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Healer Gordon Warme, MD, died in June 2023, at 90 years old. I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. He bucked convention and was a counter-balance to mainstream psychiatry’s mantra: “be normal and compliant.” Dr. Gordon Warme, from Bay St.

Self-awareness 103

Self-awareness Technology Hospitality Education 103

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm. Third: It feeds into the epidemic of self-diagnosis raging across the internet, particularly among teenage girls, and particularly on TikTok with its “sick-role subculture.” For the brain.

Aging and mental health 132

Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 132

Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. In 2023, Dryer resigned her medical license. Yet despite this acknowledgment, there is no mention of Ingrascis abusesor any risk of sexual abuse in MDMA-ATin Passie’s 2023 book, The History of MDMA.

Psychedelic therapy 114

Psychedelic therapy Legal Aging and mental health Self-awareness 114

Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

As of 2023, such laws were on the books in 47 states and the District of Columbia—leaving just Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maryland as holdouts. In September 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court, which bears similarities to AOT, became law.

Poverty and mental health 127

Poverty and mental health Legal Self-awareness Nonprofits 127

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

SENATOR SMITH: In an interview in 2023 and 2024, you blamed school shootings on antidepressants. It is high time that more politicians, journalists, health officials, physicians, psychiatrists, and patients were made aware of this potentially lifesaving information. The first example occurred on January 30, 2025, at RFK Jr.s

Self-awareness 145

Self-awareness Pharmaceuticals 145

Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The police cannot and will not be a part of how people will come to stay at the respite—guests will need to call us themselves and make a decision based in self-determination to stay. Eligibility will be based on if someone is in crisis, not on sobriety, medication compliance, or if they are refraining from self-harming.

Sleep and mental health 104

Sleep and mental health Legal Hospitality Nonprofits 104

Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Aggression has components that occur on a strictly verbal level and aggression toward property or inanimate objects as well as self (2). In the main areas I have discussed the violence has increased to the point that the Department of Justice is aware of it and successfully prosecutes cases (3,4,5). 2023 Jan 25;11:16226-49.

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Aging and mental health Legal Self-awareness 52