Aging and mental health Presentation Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2025
Some may argue that the history presented here imposes a contemporary perspective on a hospital that existed many years ago. 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. The Oregon State Insane Asylum opened in 1883.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
I had headaches, brain fog, and fatigue. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. “Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.
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Mad in America
JUNE 17, 2024
My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. M y brother Jesse sat next to me on the couch in my living room. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us. My mind raced. I believed my brother’s life was in danger. I believed I was the only person who knew it and only I could save him.
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. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St. Mary’s University.
Mad in America
APRIL 12, 2024
A nutrition geek and nature fanatic who loved learning about the healing power of food, I could not wrap my mind around how I needed prescriptions to balance my brain. I arrived at my 18 th birthday 20 pounds overweight, insecure, and foggy, thanks to Depakote and Zyprexa. It was the perfect way to start my senior year of high school.
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. Scuffling whispers echoing in the hall and in my brain halted, followed by a brief but sacred silence. Nevertheless, like USS Arizona and Utah, I lay immobile from what felt like a sneak attack. I now stammered.
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. 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. This holiday has been amazing.
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