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.

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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 sleep OK.

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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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Hospitality Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Education 98

Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Today's Content Level: All levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) Introduction to Insomnia 1 , 2 Insomnia(s) = condition(s) that result in inadequate quality or quantity of sleep, characterized by difficulties in 1 of the following: Falling asleep (sleep initiation). Staying asleep (sleep maintenance).

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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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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

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 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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Pharmaceuticals Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 145

Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Citizen scientists will use Healthy Brain Network data on physical activity and internet use; competition sponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA New York, NY The youth mental health crisis has many causes, but one rising concern is technology. sleep length and quality), clinical measurements (e.g.,

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Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Technology Aging and mental health 52

My Psychiatry

JANUARY 14, 2025

Symptoms associated with baby blues include anxiety, mood swings, difficulty sleeping, and crying spells. PPD is categorized as a form of major depression as per the DSM-5 (the manual used to diagnose mental disorders). Some of the issues that can trigger PPD include: Age at the time of pregnancy.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Yuri Corrigan, Assistant Professor of Russian Literature at Boston University, in his 2017 book Dostoevsky and The Riddle of the Self , described his writing as: “a vast experimental canvas on which the problem of selfhood is continuously explored over the course of four decades.”

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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. Sadness is a response to a specific situation in which we usually have some kind of loss. Dan: Why did you write the book, The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques

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Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

Beyond academia, he contributes significantly to public health policy as a member of the United Kingdom’s Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulations. Mark Horowitz is a clinical research fellow in psychiatry at the National Health Service (NHS) in London. It’s a very widely used book.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

An account of the abuse he suffered after being hospitalized in a psychiatric facility at age 15 and the long journey toward joy and awe that followed, his memoir was published this spring by Penguin Random House. Amy Biancolli: Banning Lyon, thank you so much for being here today, and thank you for writing this book.

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Hospitality Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Insurance 129

Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Her book, Mad Sisters , is a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13. It struck me as odd that throughout the book, you refer to your parents as Norman and Lorna rather than father and mother. She divides her time between Montreal and London.

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Sleep and mental health Hospitality Resilience and coping Aging and mental health 109

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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. Sleep hygiene can be used to ensure that that goal is met. Pornography.

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Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Technology 108

Mad in America

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As part of the preparation for that conversation, I reviewed some of the notes that I’d made when I read his books a couple years ago. I noticed that one of the notes mentioned One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and how it contributed to the evolution of mental health models and practices. I had never read the book.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Her book, Mad Sisters , is a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13. It struck me as odd that throughout the book, you refer to your parents as “Norman” and “Lorna” rather than “father” and “mother.” She divides her time between Montreal and London.

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Sleep and mental health Hospitality Resilience and coping Aging and mental health 52

Bullet Psych

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Today, we will focus on parasomnias, a category of sleep disorders involving abnormal behaviors and perceptions during different sleep stages. These disorders range from occurrences like sleepwalking to conditions such as sleep paralysis or night terrors. Typically occurs in the first third of the night in slow wave sleep (N3).

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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?

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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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Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 132

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 143