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Mad in America
AUGUST 1, 2024
The former group tends towards what I would refer to as emotional. I’m going to introduce to you a new definition of mental health and, in doing so, am going to show that this group is more mentally healthy, for which we should be very concerned. We are amidst the age of behavioral alchemy. Why is this?
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.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 3, 2023
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. But in today’s overly paternalistic culture, schools take away opportunities for self-growth.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 15, 2023
In that moment, in that mental-ward room alone, I felt I was the helpless target and it was my enemy bent on my destruction. My mother made that abundantly clear when she referred to me as “an accident.” A frosty chill had settled in my bones: a hybrid sensation of both fear and humiliation.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
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.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2023
When Nietzsche said this of Dostoevsky in 1888 (and again, more forcefully in Twilight of the Idols , published the following year), he was likely referring to the psychology of Wilhelm Wundt. Psychology has become a giant, its terms and constructs now part of the cultural lexicon, and yet it is one with clay feet.
Lawyers with Depression
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
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. Yet the intensive practice of mindfulness meditation reveals that this loss of stable reference points is actually happening all the time.
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