Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2025

And yet I choose to become a mental health nurse. I became a mental health nurse at a psychiatric clinic for children and young adults. Is this really someone who is going to tell us a different story, or is it just going to be the same mental health, biomedical b t again? My parents are psych survivors.

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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. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The screening test recommended by the World Health Organization is so poor that for every 100,000 healthy people screened, 36,000 will get a false diagnosis of depression. In Sweden, the Board of Health recommends that all adults with mild to moderately severe depression are offered psychotherapy, but only 1% get it.

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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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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022. I’m delighted to get to chat with you about your work and your latest book. So why do we call schizophrenia a mental disorder, but not believing in conspiracy theories? James Moore: Justin, welcome.

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Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

I n 1936, at age nineteen, a German woman named Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island. Buck, who lived to the age of 102, fought throughout her life for psychiatric reform. Buck also demanded recognition of the Nazi murders of the disabled and the mentally ill.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this interview, we talk about her experiences of withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects , published in 2022 which is one of the first books on antidepressant withdrawal to make it to the mass market. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Everything is so reactive.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Editor’s Note: Over the past several months, Mad in America has published a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. We see the same lies, denial and misleading information about psychiatry everywhere, 7 as illustrated so convincingly in Whitaker’s review of Insel’s book. 695 This is sickening.

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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. Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Her first book, The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt , tells the story of a 1930s millionairess whose mother secretly sterilized her to deprive her of the family fortune, sparking a sensational case and forcing a debate of eugenics. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St.

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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

MAY 10, 2024

M y first encounter with the psychiatric system in America was at the age of 18. With each step I took into the building, the kilos of shame I had felt since the age of five built up upon my back. He was amicable, handsome, and seemed to be around the age of twenty-five. I only had the clothing on my body, a folder, and a book.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

JANUARY 31, 2025

When it comes to mental health, prevention is better than cure. Sometimes the last thing we feel like doing is taking any time out of our hectic days to practice self-care, but it is easier to protect your mental health than to rebuild it after hitting breaking point. Read on for 7 ways to protect your mental health.

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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. At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis.

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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. There are no studies, not yet.

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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. Compton, MD, MPH and Ruth S.

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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. 171 years later, President George Washington’s doctors hadn’t heard about Dr. Harvey’s book. This also applies to what is now called “mental illness.” Theodoric commented on all the progress Medicine had made by 1303 A.D.,

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Most of that was because I’d been adopted at birth, but around age 20 I met my biological mom. CT: Yeah – I drank heavily from age 12 to 20. I found out at a very young age. From age seven to twelve I also got sexually abused. In Illinois, I saw a guy I found in the phone book. I felt totally lost.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

At a High Court trial in December 1997, he was found not guilty of the charges by reason of insanity and court ordered to undergo forensic mental health treatment as one of his country’s most high-profile ‘special patients.’ In talking to him, I thought he would back me up and give me a clean bill of mental health.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. Starting at the age of five I can remember being fearful of her. I became a yoga teacher while working in recruiting and aspired to move my career towards health and wellness.

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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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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Beth later featured my story and several others in her 1994 book The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegation of Sexual Abuse. To be clear: we cannot exist as a society without law, research, medicine, science, and mental health care. One other author and several journalists published my story, too.

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Mad in America

APRIL 5, 2024

The following is the fourth excerpt adapted from Healing Companions , a book by the MIA author Sam Ruck (his pen name) that describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her “alters.” And then I bought an oversized coloring book, and I would let K.A.—another So, again, how do you communicate with someone who is mute?

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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. It appears that what is often left out in care for patients in the mental health system is the care for the entire family unit. How has this impacted you and your health?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Her book, published in October by She Writes Press, is a moving and nuanced portrait filled with love and grief, candor, and complexity. The book covers so much ground, so many years: your sister’s entire life, your relationship with her, the family dynamics. Oh, that’s her ‘mental illness.’” She took it seriously.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In this interview, Brooke Siem, who is the author of a memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects , interviews her mother, Dee Barbash, to discuss the circumstances that led to Brooke being prescribed a cocktail of antidepressants at the age of 15. If listeners have read her book, you know how that went. in psychology.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. In my book on antidepressants 1 (pp. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Mad in America

MARCH 1, 2024

The following is the third excerpt adapted from Healing Companions , a book by the MIA author Sam Ruck (his pen name) that describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her “alters.” They all have different personalities, ages, abilities, and names: Amy, Tina, Jenny, Sophia, K.A., They are a sign of mental illness.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s something we’re meant to receive when we are little, but for many of us, we were asked to contort ourselves at a very early age to serve the interests of authority figures. Most people suffering with mental illness did not get this kind of attunement and care. He was there as a fellow human to be with me however I was.

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Psychiatric News

JULY 24, 2023

Tuesday Reprinted from its original source at The Rutherford Institute HERE By John & Nisha Whitehead July 18, 2023 There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.Hannah Arendt Get ready for the next phase of the governments war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions.

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Sanity Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Losing human connection in digital age Have you ever ended your day feeling inexplicably exhausted, even when you didnt physically exert yourself? Even leisure now demands digital participation be it tracking steps on a smartwatch, reading e-books, or scrolling through relaxing content. Youre not alone.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If you go before 1980, back to DSM-I and DSM-II, those books tell of how psychiatric disorders often are reactions to difficulties in the environment or, say, to stressors in the family. 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

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. Depression is undoubtedly a major health problem, but I believe the soaring “increase” is a fiction and not real.

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Lightwork

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A mental health provider will help determine the most effective treatment combination based on your specific symptoms, lifestyle, and seasonal pattern. Coping Strategies for Women with SAD Living with Seasonal Affective Disorder requires a multi-faceted approach to managing symptoms and maintaining mental well-being.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). “The esteem held by our field in the age of modern medicine rests on the validity of our scientific pursuits.

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