Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

I n 1936, at age nineteen, a German woman named Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island. Hospitalized at a Christian institution called Bethel, diagnosed schizophrenic, Buck was sterilized under the Nazi law for prevention of hereditary diseases.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Some doctors,” Greenstone notes, “referred to his practices as ‘murderous.’”

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Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tony, who lives in Virginia near his mother, lost his speech and eye contact at a very early age, when he received an autism diagnosis. Tony went off prescription drugs in September 2021, when he was released from the hospital with none, though he was on them while being held there.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The residents, most of whom were either born in Gujarat, or had somehow ended up in Gujarat, had been referred to this Center by hospitals, various non-governmental organizations, or simply arrived here by word-of-mouth. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar.

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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.” Financial, emotional and mental stability was mine to discover and maintain.

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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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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. At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis.

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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. Is BetterHelp Effective?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Does psychiatric hospitalization and medicine save the lives of suicidal patients? At least that’s the “theory” but let’s look at the facts.

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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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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.” We need pills, but we need much more.”

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Psychiatric News

JULY 24, 2023

Tuesday Reprinted from its original source at The Rutherford Institute HERE By John & Nisha Whitehead July 18, 2023 There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.Hannah Arendt Get ready for the next phase of the governments war on thought crimes: mental health round-ups and involuntary detentions.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

When the FDA analysed all the trials in 2006, there was a curve in their report that showed that the suicide risk increased right up to the age of 40. Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. ” This information is not entirely accurate.

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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

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. Grundy: There were a few hospitals, but in Canada, that was the one.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital.

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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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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Today's Content Level: Beginner, Intermediate Introduction and Key Definitions 1 , 2 Various terms have been used over the years to refer to drug abuse: Substance use : The consumption of psychoactive substances. It affects a significant portion of the population, with variations across age, gender, and socioeconomic groups.

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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. Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal. Is it not our responsibility to look deeper and ask, “Why?”

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Mad in America

MAY 16, 2024

He was hospitalized and medicated and told that this psychosis was something he would have to live with for the rest of his life, a biological abnormality. After a few sessions, Marit began to tell about her contact with angels, something that came to her at a young age spontaneously. References Beresford, P. In LeFrancois, B.,

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

M y long and complicated lifelong relationship with mental health issues and mainstream psychiatry takes place across three different countries. Naturally, I developed an eating disorder and OCD at an early age. Around age 11, I had a classmate commit suicide. The first time I saw a psychiatrist was around age 12.

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Zencare

JANUARY 22, 2025

There are 298 mental health conditions currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition-TR, which is the standard reference for clinical practice among trained, licensed mental health professionals, in the US. Written by Rebekah Ferguson, LMHC.

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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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

His writing offers unique insights into the hegemonic foundations of mental health and champions the role of narrative in therapy. His profound appreciation for the humanities guides his exploration of mental health, often through the lens of art and literature. Post-psychiatry introduces these questions to the field.

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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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