Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2025

And yet I choose to become a mental health nurse. I became a mental health nurse at a psychiatric clinic for children and young adults. Is this really someone who is going to tell us a different story, or is it just going to be the same mental health, biomedical b t again? My parents are psych survivors.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The screening test recommended by the World Health Organization is so poor that for every 100,000 healthy people screened, 36,000 will get a false diagnosis of depression. The outcome of the US suicide prevention programmes has been the opposite of what was expected. This is a great recipe for drug companies.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2025

The DAWSS identifies 15 symptoms that are most likely caused by antidepressant withdrawal rather than pre-existing mental health issues. Older age was associated with more severe withdrawal symptoms. Men reported more difficult withdrawal experiences in the current research. Moncrieff, J., Read, J., & Horowitz, M.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Eliot Sorel, an extraordinary leader in global mental health, on 13th of October 2024, at the age of 84. Sorel was not only a pioneer in health systems performance and psychiatry but also a visionary whose dedication transformed the lives of countless individuals worldwide. Through these efforts, Prof.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Researchers surveyed 900 patients aged 18 to 64 who were taking antidepressants and categorized them based on their past and present use. The researchers recruited the 900 service users using the Carelon Research Healthcare Integrated Research Database, an administrative claims database for health outcome research.

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Centre for Mental Health

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The nations mental health is getting worse, with an especially significant increase in levels of distress among children and young people over recent years. The health and social costs of maternal depression, anxiety, and psychosis were estimated to carry long-term economic and social costs of approximately 8.1

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Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

A recent article published in the Health Expectations journal reveals that discontinuing the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI withdrawal) has an impact on the emotional, cognitive, and social aspects of the lives of users, in addition to causing physical withdrawal symptoms.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2024

However, a recent article titled “Growing All The Way Up” (the online version is titled “ The Words Every Adult Child Needs to Hear ,” January 2024) in Psychology Today suggests adult children estranged with their parents take control of creating the life they want by “getting past old hurts” that they may have with their parents.

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Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

I n 1936, at age nineteen, a German woman named Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island. Buck, who lived to the age of 102, fought throughout her life for psychiatric reform. Buck also demanded recognition of the Nazi murders of the disabled and the mentally ill.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The average age of the included service users was 82.1 Service users prescribed antipsychotics were more likely to have a history of serious mental illness, as well as prescriptions for antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Electronic health data collected for administrative purposes can occasionally be unreliable. Guthrie, B.,

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Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Ndayiziga will take part in the Carter Centers Climate Change Mental Health Fellowship thanks to the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of its Global Health Initiative (GHI). We are delighted to announce Mr. Avit Ndayiziga as our inaugural SNF Global Center Communicator Fellow.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 13, 2025

Everyone ages, but, sometimes, people outlive all predictions. In a 2024 Clinical Psychological Science study , Paolo Ghisletta of the University of Geneva linked longevity specifically to one of those traits: verbal fluency, the measure of ones vocabulary and ability to use it. However, intelligence isnt a simple characteristic.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One even boasted about doing so twice, once ‘on behalf of my Asian son from Germany who is the same age as me.’ tapering strips, liquid, smaller dose tablets) to ensure gradual reduction’ (88%) and ‘A health professional providing a personalised, flexible reduction plan’ (79%). there are two very reasonable concerns.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreams are natural phenomenathat occurwhen people experience dreamlike mental activities while awake. It represents a hybrid mental state on the edge between wakefulness and sleep, where imagination and reality blur. Over the past three years, I have developed a mental wellness practice called Guided Dreaming.

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Child Mind Intitute

AUGUST 6, 2024

They talk about how including youth in research on tech and mental health can improve access to care by making digital care solutions fit the needs of more diverse populations. Unfortunately, any research study involving participants under the age of 18 is rare because it is difficult to ethically do.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to the World Health Organization, War, armed conflict and other man-made or natural disasters cause profound distress and can in some cases ignite or inflame existing mental health conditions. Science, in this time of pessimism and possibly even resignation, is a key facilitator for achieving a better future for all.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To be clear: we cannot exist as a society without law, research, medicine, science, and mental health care. Children and adolescents use their innate creativity to survive terrible things, including unethical and abusive mental health treatment, and in this case, I was no exception.

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Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance abuse is one of the most critical public health crises in the United States, affecting millions of individuals, families, and communities. The Impact of Substance Abuse Substance abuse takes a significant toll on your physical and mental health.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). “The esteem held by our field in the age of modern medicine rests on the validity of our scientific pursuits.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MARCH 7, 2025

Dr Joanne Fegan Dr Joanne Fegan is the Director of Communications and Public Education with the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland since March 2024. She is a Consultant in Later Life Psychiatry with Mayo Mental Health Services. Stigmatisation of those with mental illness. Did you always want to be psychiatrist?

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 7, 2024

A standard research technique to assess stress effects on blood pressure is to ask subjects to do mental arithmetic and it generally leads to a blood pressure effect like what the authors describe in this paper of 20 mm systolic or 10 mm diastolic. Access to the electronic health record can show long term trends. JAMA Psychiatry.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 23, 2023

S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. Prompted by a last-minute invitation, I recently traveled to the 13 th Compassionate Mental Health retreat in Coed Hills, Wales. They’re too entangled with control, coercion, sanism, and violence.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. ECT is a psychiatric treatment for clinical depression and other mental health conditions in which electrical impulses are passed through a persons brain to cause brief seizures (Egan, 2018).

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The STAR*D study was the third of three major studies conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to determine the effectiveness of drug treatment of depression. Data, not anecdotal opinions of scientists and doctors, must rule in health science. He, too, was spurned.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Boundary-crossing relationships were commonplace as these pioneers saw themselves as cultural revolutionaries existing outside of social and legal norms and fueled by the magical powers of psychedelics as they ushered in a spiritual New Age. “Lying is done with words and also with silence.” Ingrasci continues to use ‘M.D.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They had tortured me for four years, between the ages of sixteen and twenty, first because they suffered under the delusion that my homosexuality was a mental illness, and then by their certainty that my schizophrenia, which they had created, was incurable. ” Where is one better off than with ones family? Anywhere else.

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Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Public health officials are attacked for providing the best possible public health advice just because some politicians dont like it or need to cover their own incompetence. Threats alone can significantly affect your sense of physical and mental well-being. Am J Public Health. Am J Psychiatry. 2022 May;112(5):728-730.

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