Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After enduring years of chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME/CFS), autism, ADHD, and anxiety, she, at the young age of 28, chose euthanasia to escape a life dominated by pain. As of this year, the MAID program was also set to allow those with mental illness to choose euthanasia.

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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. Their article was very difficult to publish. When the article was published and the editor invited comments, none arrived. This is also typical.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

And therein is a critical lesson for todays mental health system, and how it should strive to ensure that everything about us is with us, not without us. 1921 Survey This survey was commissioned because of dissatisfaction with how the mentally ill were being handled, and to plan for future need.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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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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Aging and mental health 132

Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2024

F amily estrangement is on the rise, headlines read, followed by many articles about setting healthy boundaries, communication, self-care and emotional maturity. ” The essence of the first half of the article is nobody is perfect, get over it.

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. 23,24 In 2013, I estimated that, in people aged 65 and above, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or similar, and depression drugs kill 209,000 people annually in the United States. for those aged 70-79.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop. The article bowled me over.

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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.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Children are being given psychiatric drugs at younger and younger ages, including powerful antipsychotics, and being treated for the abuse they receive in the harsh world of the homeless. I asked another employee what was wrong and the response was shes mentally ill. It was always assumed to be the childs supposed mental illness.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

All of the ingredients for a blockbuster article were now clearly visible, including an acknowledgement from inside psychiatry that this story was of profound importance for all of our society. Yet, the media has remained silent, and now the scandal is fading away.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. The average age of the included service users was 82.1 Electronic health data collected for administrative purposes can occasionally be unreliable. Current MIA supporters can log in below.

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Mad in America

APRIL 13, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in South Asia. O n the footpath, in a group of homeless people, sits a middle-aged saree-clad woman in absolute silence, looking nowhere. She was brought in along with a salwar-kameez wearing middle-aged woman. When asked her age, Lata said that she was 3 years old.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Many in the older generations, like my mother’s age (70’s and above), say things like, ‘That was just life…it was what it was,’ and that is the end of the story for them. That was what happened to me at age 51. ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Trauma?

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.” We attempted to get help from a sleep clinic, and they refused to test him, claiming his insomnia was caused by “mental health issues.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Furthermore, even though I have sometimes used recent articles to demonstrate that the authors are wrong, the knowledge I convey has existed for many years prior to 2016. In 1990-92, 12% of the US population aged 18–54 years received treatment for emotional problems, which went up to 20% in 2001–2003. 695 This is sickening.

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Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

According to the World Health Organization, social determinants of health are “Nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. Find the journal article here.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He entered a settlement with the Ministry of Health in December 2021, which obliged the government to amend the Psychiatry Act, so that the rights for psychiatric patients subjected to belt fixation were improved. Silas had autism and came into contact with the psychiatric system at a very young age.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Legal 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A StatPearls article lists a variety of likely causes, ranging from a risky or difficult pregnancy and a history of previous depression and anxiety to a myriad of social and lifestyle features which can include a lack of social support, spousal/partner abuse, eating habits, sleep cycles, and even a lack of certain vitamins.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.

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Child Mind Intitute

AUGUST 23, 2024

This conversation is part of the Child Mind Institutes webinar series on Technology and Youth Mental Health , which asks how tech might be used to improve mental health outcomes for all young people. The series is made possible by our partner and funder, the State of California’s Department of Health Care Services.

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Mad in America

JUNE 26, 2024

J essica Schleider is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health ( www.schleiderlab.org ). On her own and with colleagues, she’s published a wide array of articles and book chapters and co-wrote a self-help book, The Growth Mindset Workbook for Teens.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 13, 2025

Everyone ages, but, sometimes, people outlive all predictions. Ghislettas research used samples from the Berlin Aging Study, which started collecting data shortly before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 (Baltes & Mayer, 1999). Aging Research is showing that aging equals anything but cognitive decline and unhappiness.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. They divorced once my mother found out he had been cheating with a woman half his age. At the age of 14, I found myself in an abusive relationship with a boy a year older than me.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

T he decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Mad in the UK. I have a friend who once said – having met him in a mental health unit – that everyone there had “schizophrenia” but he didn’t. How can people’s health be treated so flippantly by psychiatry which demonstrates that our views of our experiences are irrelevant?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This article discusses their strengths and weaknesses. 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%).

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Mad in America

MARCH 1, 2024

They all have different personalities, ages, abilities, and names: Amy, Tina, Jenny, Sophia, K.A., The concept of voices is the first thing in our common wisdom about mental health distress that I have found to be helpful. They are a sign of mental illness. Allie, Shellie, and Ka’ryn, my wife’s host.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in the UK. It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. I want to start my story at the end. That was in fact my second stint in a locked psychiatric ward.

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Lightwork

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This stark difference isn’t just a statistical anomalyit reflects complex biological, social, and cultural factors that shape women’s mental health experiences. You’ll discover how biological factors, cultural influences, and age-related challenges contribute to anxiety in women.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

Editor’s note: This article by Gaurav Datta was first published on Mad in South Asia. The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

BetterHelp and its competitors suggest they are the answer to a pressing societal mental health crisis. As a result, people are seeking mental health care at unprecedented rates, leaving many professionals too full to accept new patients, and creating an opening for new platforms.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Sources 1 Edlow AG. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(10):e2129674.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 22, 2025

In 2008, BMJ recognized her as one of 100 international scientists journalists could count on for unbiased reviews of health research. Brooke Siem: Gretchen, I didnt know you were recognized as one of 100 international scientists journalists can rely on for unbiased reviews of health research. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.

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Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

The opening roll of this classic skit: In the Middle Ages, medicine was still in its infancy. Herbal medicine, eclectic medicine, and homeopathic medicine were some of the pre-1850 approaches to health that, whatever faults they might have had, did not encourage practitioners to bleed their patients to death or poison them with mercury.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. Ameliorating factors like oxidative stress, neuro-inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction with such interventions may have ‘neuroprotective’ effects, as well more general health benefits. So what is there to lose?

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