Aging and mental health Books Self-awareness 
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.
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. Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures.
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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.
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.
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.
Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. 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.”
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2023
His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. The anti-hero of the novel holds a preference for the perfect conception of himself.
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