Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

None of the problems we think about when we think about mental disorder—mainly depression and the anxiety disorders—are explained by psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm, and not for want of trying. Only Down syndrome, dementia, and brain damage from alcohol and drug abuse fit psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm.

Genetics and mental health 145

Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Anxiety disorders Construction 145

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this blog, he introduces the book. This movement escalated by the marketing of Prozac in 1987, a medication which was said to effectively treat clinical depression and several anxiety disorders without the risk of overdose deaths of the earlier antidepressant drugs such as Elavil. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

Healthcare 112

Healthcare Genetics and mental health Insurance Pharmaceuticals 112

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this blog, he addresses antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine and esketamine, and the new frontier of drugs for postpartum depression. In this same vein one must remember that Sigmund Freud for a time believed he also had discovered a wonder drug to treat a variety of mental disorders and the drug was cocaine!

Healthcare 97

Healthcare Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Pharmaceuticals 97

The Anxiety Guy

JULY 14, 2024

People often view stress as an unavoidable consequence of ambition and success, leading to widespread issues like anxiety disorders, burnout and nervous system dysregulation , and other health problems. This was front and center for my own life dealing with anxiety disorders a few years back.

Family dynamics 40

Family dynamics Anxiety disorders Education 40

Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In this blog, he begins a discussion on depression and antidepressant drugs. These drugs have often become the sole treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders including clinical depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other approved and off-label uses of these drugs.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 77

Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 77

Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Anxiety and Depression Children who face bullying often develop persistent feelings of fear, helplessness, and sadness. Over time, these emotions solidify into anxiety disorders and depression. Many adults who were bullied as children struggle with social anxiety, panic attacks, and a pervasive sense of low self-worth.

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Resilience and coping Trauma and the brain Anxiety disorders 52

NAMI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Madeline Bohlman, Miss Arkansas USA I was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder when I was very youngI think I may have been in elementary school. My degree in Marketing from the Sam Walton School of Business has led to my current position as a Merchandising Senior Analyst at Walmart in nearby Bentonville.

Genetics and mental health 52

Genetics and mental health Mental health advocacy Anxiety disorders Healthcare 52

Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 30, 2024

During this time, we hear more often from parents who are struggling with setting limits and seeing more behavioral difficulties, says Michelle Thirkield, PsyD, a psychologist in the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Child Mind Institute. Stick with school bedtimes as much as possible.

Autism spectrum 52

Autism spectrum Anxiety disorders 52

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

Rather than give us a serenic, which many might feel was not unreasonable to take at times, doctors have to give us an anxiety disorder. Rather than market a tonic to us to improve our appetite or sleep, marketing to doctors means making us depressed.

Sleep and mental health 136

Sleep and mental health Legal Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 136

Montana Psychiatry

MARCH 10, 2025

Montana winters can be long and challenging. The cold, dark days can make anyone feel drained and disconnected. While the beauty of our state, from Billings to Bozeman, is undeniable, its understandable that winters extended gloom can affect your mood and mental health. But now, with the arrival of spring, theres a reason to feel hopeful!

Neurotransmitters and mental health 52

Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Anxiety disorders 52

The Anxiety Guy

MAY 23, 2024

We can become addicted to worry and anxiety. Worry and anxiety become an illusory form of protection from what our ego minds fear the most. Simply because without it many of us get the sense that we would become vulnerable to the potential threats coming from the outside, along with illnesses and diseases from the inside.

Anxiety disorders 52

Anxiety disorders 52

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. This process of medicalisation is now all too often a default response to distress and happens on a large scale.

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Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 141

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

NIMH has spent many tens of billions of research dollars over many decades attempting to substantiate a physiological basis for depression and other mental disorders, only to come up empty handed.

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Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Manufacturing Anxiety disorders 145