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Grief and Burnout: The Challenge of Staying Out of Psychiatry

Mad in America

That night, I dont know when, perhaps in October 2024, my sister was rushing me in her car through the night. Earlier in the year, in January of 2024, my father passed away. 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.

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What Are Waking Dreams, and Why Should You Care?

Mad in America

Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. D reaming isa vitalpart of our existence, essential to memory consolidation and emotional processing. This mounting stress and anxiety resulted in severe shoulder pain.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

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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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

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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TV Series "Shrinking" S2 — Is Therapy Really Like This? (Part 2)

Zencare

Published on January 3, 2024 by Zencare Team. Written by David Rothman, LCSW and Allegra Balmadier, Content Manager at Zencare. Welcome to part 2 of this series! This article contains thoughts from Allegra, Zencares Content Manager (and big Shrinking fan) and insights from therapist David Rothman, LCSW. Alice finds out about Brian and Louis.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

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.