Mad in America

AUGUST 17, 2024

T his is the story of Will, a young man who plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat psychiatric hospitalizations—and the effect on family members who supported him along the way. On ce a healthy young man preparing for college, he seemed to be escaping his own body.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

That night, I dont know when, perhaps in October 2024, my sister was rushing me in her car through the night. Our destinations were psychiatric hospitals or wards within general hospitals where my blood pressure and pulse could be brought down. Earlier in the year, in January of 2024, my father passed away. Why would I?

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Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Hospitality Legal 107

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A new review published in CNS Drugs analyzes the current available treatment guidelines for monitoring the potential negative side effects of clozapine. Shockingly, based on their inclusion criteria, the authors only found one existing guideline.

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Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Education Hospitality 114

Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.

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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?

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

Zencare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Published on January 3, 2024 by Zencare Team. Sean just landed in the hospital after getting into a fight. Written by David Rothman, LCSW and Allegra Balmadier, Content Manager at Zencare. Welcome to part 2 of this series! Note that this blog post is full of spoilers youve been warned! We left off at Episode 6: In a Lonely Place.

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Self-awareness Trauma and the brain Hospitality 52

Mad in America

DECEMBER 23, 2023

They were shatteringly vivid then—usually involving fleeing from hospital staff who wanted to lock me up and inject me with sedatives. S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. But this dream was different, and it turns out, not so far from a possible reality.

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Hospitality Construction 140