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We Are Amidst the Age of Behavioral Alchemy

Mad in America

They are willing to entertain my conjecture and have meaningful conversations where they have both educated me as well as seriously considered the observational and logical statements I present. THE STATE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE TODAY I routinely rummage through all the biographies of professors at leading universities.

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Everything About Us Without Us

Mad in America

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.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

Mad in America

A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience. S.te.meerman@rug.nl

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Students Don’t Need Spying, They Need Trust

Mad in America

Y ouths are facing a mental health crisis. America has a track record of stigmatizing mental health struggles, particularly the mental health struggles of students with historically marginalized identities. Something obviously needs to change when a child feels this way.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

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.

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Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine

Mad in America

Children grew up in these settings, learning independence and self-reliance from a young age. Economic systems are portrayed as immutable laws of nature, obscuring the fact that they are human constructs. At the same time, mental health professionals are as powerless as anyone else to change the dysfunctional systems.

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Depression as a Loss of Heart

Lawyers with Depression

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. Meditators experience this by observing the ceaseless arising and passing away of their mental and emotional states.