Aging and mental health Construction Sleep and mental health 
Mad in America
MAY 10, 2024
M y first encounter with the psychiatric system in America was at the age of 18. With each step I took into the building, the kilos of shame I had felt since the age of five built up upon my back. He was amicable, handsome, and seemed to be around the age of twenty-five. 5 on the 4.0 I was a failure. I’ll call him Carlos.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Psychology has become a giant, its terms and constructs now part of the cultural lexicon, and yet it is one with clay feet. For the highly rational and deeply divided Ivan from The Brothers Karamazov , this death-in-life is revealed to him in a dream where it is as though he is awake in his sleep.
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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. Many a Seeker arrives having spent nights drinking and watching porn, sleeping during the day and unable to work or read. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal.
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. Sexual sanism is a label Ive used to describe the ways in which sexuality and sanism are co-constructed in our society.
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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