Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2024

It reeks of colonial saviourism, perpetuating the modern rhetoric that mental health was ignored in traditional societies and that only modern societies, with their enlightened ways of looking at the self and the world, give importance to it and therefore, should serve as the champions of expanding this cause worldwide.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I have a friend who once said – having met him in a mental health unit – that everyone there had “schizophrenia” but he didn’t. Of course it wouldn’t be such a secret if there was education in schools!! Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Mad in the UK. And I wasn’t alone. Why wasn’t I told how common it is?

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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.

Genetics and mental health 136

Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 136

Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eugene Gendlin In a previous blog, I wrote about my experiences in psychedelic therapy, and the ways that the psychedelic-assisted therapy model by design perpetuates one of our cultures deepest wounds: feeling alone. Most people suffering with mental illness did not get this kind of attunement and care. This is attunement, tracking.

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Trauma and the brain Psychedelic therapy Aging and mental health Education 117

Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

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 am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me.

Sleep and mental health 110

Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services Aging and mental health 110

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. S.te.meerman@rug.nl

Genetics and mental health 121

Genetics and mental health Healthcare Bipolar disorder Aging and mental health 121

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Linda Andre spent the last eight years of her life institutionalized at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where she died by suicide this month at age 63. In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen.

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Hospitality Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Education 98

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Like many family members I was mystified, startled, and clueless about this experience so I turned to mental health professionals for answers. After one difficult night, we went to a local mental health crisis center. Out of fear more than anything else, he made angry statements to a mental health care worker.

Aging and mental health 116

Aging and mental health Hospitality Insurance Pharmaceuticals 116

Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tony, who lives in Virginia near his mother, lost his speech and eye contact at a very early age, when he received an autism diagnosis. This did not stop Sherita from believing that her son was intelligent, as he went on to complete school and higher education with a degree in botany. How has this impacted you and your health?

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Autism spectrum Aging and mental health Hospitality Bipolar disorder 114

Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects an individual’s perception of reality. Understanding Psychosis Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects a person’s ability to think, feel, and behave. It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking.

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Bipolar disorder Genetics and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Early intervention 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Children grew up in these settings, learning independence and self-reliance from a young age. Education systems prioritize conformity over creativity, training individuals to fit into predetermined roles rather than question the status quo. However, the industrial revolution brought seismic changes.

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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.

Sleep and mental health 99

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 99

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.

Aging and mental health 106

Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Education 106

Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. She has grown into a more compassionate and well-rounded Certified Health Education Specialist and Mental Health First Aid provider from her experiences with her husband’s mental health issues.

Sleep and mental health 52

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 52

Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

Ameliorating factors like oxidative stress, neuro-inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction with such interventions may have ‘neuroprotective’ effects, as well more general health benefits. Suitable exercise, mental stimulation and appropriate nutrition can be conducive factors allowing for recovery of healthy brain function.

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Early intervention Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 118

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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Aging and mental health Resilience and coping Education Hospitality 40

The London Psychiatry Centre

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The first signs of ADHD are usually seen by pre-school age. Most children are diagnosed between the ages of six and 12 once they start school and their behaviour can be observed as being different to other children. What’s the difference between ADD and ADHD? You may have heard ADD and ADHD used interchangeably.

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Aging and mental health Adolescent mental health Education 52

Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg coaches people with anxiety via the internet and phone. Shes a frequent contributor to the award-winning magazine, Psychotherapy Networker and she blogs on depression for the magazine Psychology Today. Why is there so much stigma surrounding depression ?

Genetics and mental health 52

Genetics and mental health Nutrition and mood Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health 52

Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. He cites (1) pessimism ; (2) feelings of helplessness and (3) the win-loss mentality so common in the practice of law. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his Ph.D.

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Legal Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And our commonly held psychological theories make it hard for people to make direct contact with depression as a living experience, by framing it as an objective mental disorder to be quickly eliminated. Meditators experience this by observing the ceaseless arising and passing away of their mental and emotional states.

Construction 52

Construction Self-awareness Aging and mental health Technology 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

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Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 141

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. The same age group reported an increase in mental illness from 31% to 45%, although the highest rate of 50% was reported in the age group of 18 to 34.

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

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Nonprofits 139

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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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing Legal 121

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. And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 90

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. After opening my private practice, one of my specialties was perinatal mental health, supporting women during pregnancy and postpartum.

Trauma and the brain 122

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health 122

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. These and other will-based activities educate and empower individuals in ways that their self-respect, accountability, and autonomy grow. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal.

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

Mad in America

MARCH 4, 2025

S exual sanism permeates the ways our culture talks about and treats the mentally ill, queer people, and, more broadly, anyone who relates or reacts inappropriately to the world and people around them. They have some kind of underlying mental illness condition. How can you tell if someone is sexually deviant?

Sleep and mental health 77

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Construction Hospitality 77

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the many studies finding poor long-term results with psychiatric drugs and how the drugs lead to a more chronic course for depression and psychosis. The profession needs to keep the truth out of sight, even to itself, and it is not presented in psychiatric textbooks or in continuing medical education seminars.

Bipolar disorder 145

Bipolar disorder Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals 145

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. The same falsehoods are taught in continuing education programs to previously credentialed psychiatrists. He, too, was spurned.

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Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manufacturing Anxiety disorders 145

Mad in America

JULY 30, 2024

Fear of other men runs deep here in our circle, here in the mad age of othering, here in a windowless building that looks like, from a distance, nothing more than a warehouse for storing things that no one else wants to deal with. I sit with a group of men who serve long-term sentences for violent crimes.

Technology 98

Technology Education Healthcare Hospitality 98

ADDitude

MARCH 4, 2025

This diverse group spans all age groups, racial and ethnic backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, socioeconomic statuses, and religious beliefs. DEI programs and initiatives designed to encourage diversity and promote fairness in education and in the workforce benefit people with disabilities, including those with ADHD.

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Education Aging and mental health 110

Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2025

closure of public institutions for individuals with serious mental illness) took place, as well as the rise of psychopharmacology after the 1980 DSM III update. To echo Specht and Courtney, why isnt this considered a scandal that is being addressed in our licensing boards and educational institutions?

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Poverty and mental health Social Services Nonprofits Aging and mental health 111