Aging and mental health Reference Trauma and the brain 
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. T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
I will always wonder whether I got worse because of me or because of damage to my brain? Children are being given psychiatric drugs at younger and younger ages, including powerful antipsychotics, and being treated for the abuse they receive in the harsh world of the homeless. T his is all written to the best of my memory.
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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. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St. Mary’s University.
Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.” Thankfully, from my work as a music college professor, I understood the connection between music and the brain. The ER physician had given him Prozac.
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.
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.
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