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

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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Child Mind Intitute

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Your child and their peers will soon become aware of those differences as well, if they havent already. Undiagnosed kids with autism may worry theres something wrong with them, unable to pinpoint why they feel different from other kids their age. You may want to meet with a mental health professional yourself.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is the second 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.” I call this validate and turn : In chapter 5 of my book, I fully explain this concept. Our son and I freaked out!

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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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Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

She is the author of six books on the treatment of anxiety and depression published by W.W. An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg: Because depression comprises sadness. The loss of a self-esteem, a loss of a loved one, the loss of a desired goal.

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Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He wrote eight books, includingChallenge of the Heart(1985),Journey of the Heart(1990), andLove and Awakening(1996). 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. He died in 2019.

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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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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Dr. Andrews is also concerned with the evolution of the serotonin system and the effects of antidepressants on mental and physical health. She wrote a beautiful book called Bluets , and a line stood out to me, which feels very relevant to your work. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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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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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. Despite the seemingly common knowledge amongst core MDMA-AT researchers about sexual abuses in the 1980s, Torsten Passie’s 2023 Oxford University Press book The History of MDMA makes no mention of this.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

His books include Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry , Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Shape Clinical Practice, and Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities. He has two books forthcoming: Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema and a co-edited Mad Studies Reader.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Coopers latest book, Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision for Society , examines how psychological theory and practice can be leveraged to create a more equitable world. There have been a few books written from that viewpoint, but I dont sense much energy behind them. Do they recognize it?

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Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Public health officials are attacked for providing the best possible public health advice just because some politicians dont like it or need to cover their own incompetence. Aggression has components that occur on a strictly verbal level and aggression toward property or inanimate objects as well as self (2).

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