Mad in America

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

With convenience right at our fingertips, it seems paradoxical that, despite our relative prosperity, we suffer some of the highest rates of mental illness compared to any other part of the world, with more than 1 in 5 US adults living with mental illness. If that were the case, most of us would not be sitting here today.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I detail Mom’s full story in this blog post , and I relate both of our stories in my memoir Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery. No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD.

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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. Its a genetic predisposition towards depression.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The suicides seemed to trigger a general darkening in the mood at the schools. And as we later found out, only 46% of the kids who died by suicide even had a known mental health problem. Some teens came to feel that it was their right to have sex with attractive others at a young age, but that actually didn’t happen.

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