Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor. I built a new support system.

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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). Of the 4,041 patients who entered the trial, only 108 had remitted and then stayed well and in the study to its one-year end, a documented stay-well rate of 3%.

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

Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

According to the World Health Organization, social determinants of health are “Nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. Compton, MD, MPH and Ruth S.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. He sets out to study the genetics of schizophrenia, through twins.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The average age of the included service users was 82.1 Service users prescribed antipsychotics were more likely to have a history of serious mental illness, as well as prescriptions for antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Electronic health data collected for administrative purposes can occasionally be unreliable.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 104

Mad in America

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. They divorced once my mother found out he had been cheating with a woman half his age. At the age of 14, I found myself in an abusive relationship with a boy a year older than me.

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Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Early intervention 111

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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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** Ameliorating factors like oxidative stress, neuro-inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction with such interventions may have ‘neuroprotective’ effects, as well more general health benefits. So what is there to lose?

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Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

But I was doing my best to love and assist my aging mother with whatever aid I could find, and I had to take this seriously. I told them I had a POA health directive for her, and I’d be there in the morning. I helped take care of her bills as well as my brother’s, and I kept close tabs on her health. Documents get ignored.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

BetterHelp and its competitors suggest they are the answer to a pressing societal mental health crisis. As a result, people are seeking mental health care at unprecedented rates, leaving many professionals too full to accept new patients, and creating an opening for new platforms.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.

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National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It is a brief functional assessment tool that your providers can use for ages 6 through adulthood, regardless of diagnosis. This measurement tool provides behavioral health criteria to help promote evidence-based practices and support a persons recovery and wellbeing.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Nonprofits 139

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

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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. The WHO document describes in detail several such models for mental health care.

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Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2024

Following the George Floyd uprising in 2020, he founded the project Of Unsound Mind to trace the histories of psychiatry, social work, and public health’s connections to policing, prisons, and various disciplinary and managerial technologies. I was always interested in radical politics since a very young age.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 13, 2024

Since she was once deemed too “mentally ill” to run her own life, it’s a civil- and disability-rights landmark that the Grammy-winning performer is finally willing and able to share her side of the story. It is also a rarity: documentation of psychiatric abuse on a prominent, mainstream platform. And it isn’t pretty. Spoilers ahead.)

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Three other published critiques of the STAR*D study document this malfeasant reporting of the findings —all to no avail because psychiatry is in total control of the narrative. Data, not anecdotal opinions of scientists and doctors, must rule in health science. Science journalist Robert Whitaker made a similar effort with the Times.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

As I documented in CounterPunch earlier this year, it is now mainstream to acknowledge that: (1) psychiatry’s treatment outcomes are “abysmal” and “not getting any better”; (2) the serotonin imbalance theory of depression is untrue; and (3) psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, the DSM , is scientifically invalid. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Boundary-crossing relationships were commonplace as these pioneers saw themselves as cultural revolutionaries existing outside of social and legal norms and fueled by the magical powers of psychedelics as they ushered in a spiritual New Age. Ingrasci never expressed any public remorse or accountability for his violations.

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Psychedelic therapy Legal Aging and mental health Self-awareness 114

Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They had tortured me for four years, between the ages of sixteen and twenty, first because they suffered under the delusion that my homosexuality was a mental illness, and then by their certainty that my schizophrenia, which they had created, was incurable. ” Where is one better off than with ones family? Anywhere else.

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Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Public health officials are attacked for providing the best possible public health advice just because some politicians dont like it or need to cover their own incompetence. Threats alone can significantly affect your sense of physical and mental well-being. The White House condemned it for condoning political violence.

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