Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I am also a trauma survivor, an individual labeled with Bipolar Disorder, who struggled with suicidal ideation. I have written academic/scholarly articles published in scientific peer-reviewed journals, position papers, blogs, newspaper articles, and workbooks.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Mad in America printed an article on an earlier study on how many academic textbooks leave readers in the dark about the fact that genetic differences can hardly explain any of the ADHD behaviors. This is, to our knowledge, the first set of guidelines on information about any of the disorders defined by the DSM.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

All of the ingredients for a blockbuster article were now clearly visible, including an acknowledgement from inside psychiatry that this story was of profound importance for all of our society. Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles.

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NAMI

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Over the next 13 years, I cycled through different doctors and different diagnoses (depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder II), none of which fully explained my struggles. In 1997, a study highlighted that just 16 of thousands of ADHD articles addressed African-American youth.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. Moran is also affiliated with Harvard Medical School as a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, as is Ongur. Perlis is affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. In 1998, I was the lead author in an article published in Health Affairs , the leading health policy journal, calling into question whether the rapid consolidation of the rehabilitation hospital industry was in the public interest.

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Mad in America

APRIL 13, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in South Asia. However, the doctor also did not hesitate to change the provisional diagnosis of “schizoaffective disorder” provided by the psychologist to “bipolar disorder” without any symptom presentation for “bipolar disorder.”

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Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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Now Psych

MAY 20, 2024

per cent of the population have schizoaffective disorder: its a lot less common than either major depression or bipolar disorder. Individuals with schizophrenia may have an increased risk for first-degree relatives for schizoaffective disorder, and vice-versa.

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My Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This article dives into the common signs of cannabiss effects, exploring how it might influence emotions, energy levels, and mental health. Bipolar Disorder and Marijuana For individuals with bipolar disorder , marijuana presents specific risks.

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Bipolar disorder Dialectical Behavior Therapy Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 52

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. But the authors on the authorship line of any article reporting the results will be American, none of whom will have seen the effects of the company drug on either the far-flung, or even American, patients.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The clinician might regard some treatment options as ill-suited to that particular patient: ketamine, for example, in a patient with bipolar disorder (because research has only just recently been expanded to include bipolar depression). So, no question, “pharma” has strong influence.

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Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ” 1 This is one of many recent, oversimplified headlines that encourage us to think we are on the brink of discovering the next biomarker that will scientifically validate biomedical psychiatric disorders.

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Mad in America

JULY 6, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in Italy. The author, Laura Guerra, is the author of the book Stopping Psychotropic Drugs: How and Why and has translated books by Joanna Moncrieff and Peter Breggin. She has a degree in biological sciences and a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Ferrara.

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Solara Mental Health

JULY 27, 2023

Image courtesy of Pixabay.com How do you know if you have ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) ? This is the second in a series of articles on recognizing ADHD in yourself as an adult, its main causes, proper diagnosis, and suggestions regarding how to address it. What makes this condition recognizable for an adult?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I sat down to write this article with the experience of severe akathisia fresh in my mind. Recalling the river metaphor from my last article, I leaned back and pointed my feet downstream. As my husband pointed out in his previous article, trust goes both ways. She quipped, “ Everyone has bipolar.”

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Nutrition and mood Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder 114

Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

fibromyalgia, arthritis, cancer), asthma or other respiratory issues like COPD, heart disease (angina, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea), GERD, hyperthyroidism, prostate disease, urinary frequency/urgency, neurodegenerative disorders, pregnancy, menopause, restless leg syndrome. dementia), and substance use disorders.

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Bullet Psych

JANUARY 21, 2024

methamphetamine, ecstasy), depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, etc.). Also associated with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, somatic symptom disorder, and illness anxiety disorder. poor sleep hygiene, substance abuse (e.g.,

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Then, in the 1970s, The New York Times published an article called “Psychiatry’s Anxious Years, “and part of it was that medical students looked down on those who chose psychiatry as their speciality. And by the way, that article said how few doctors and residents were choosing to go into psychiatry. And why did they do that?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

You write that there is a huge gap between this expert reaction to the article and that of the actual public. At home there was a constant level of ambient chaos. I saw a lot of distressing things when I was very young and into my 20s. Many psychiatric experts scoffed saying “well, of course, we’ve known about this for decades”.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article is the result of my quest. Various psychiatrists have published highly scientific treatises attempting to demonstrate that the correct diagnosis for Nietzsches mental illness should be a bipolar disorder, or the result of a brain tumor, or the consequence of syphilis, or schizophrenia.

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

At any one time, I would say about a third of my practice is comprised of lawyers or law students, of which a large majority suffer from depression or some related mood disorder such as persistent depressive disorder or bipolar disorder. Can you tell us what kind of issues concerning depression lawyers come to you for?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The study focused on patients with a bipolar disorder diagnosis in Hong Kong. You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters. To read the full article, sign up as a MIA Supporter. Lithium for bipolar disorder and risk of thyroid dysfunction and chronic kidney disease.

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Zencare

MARCH 3, 2025

It is a key feature of bipolar disorder symptoms and can significantly impact a persons ability to function. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition that requires a combination of medication, cognitive behavioral therapy, and lifestyle changes for effective treatment. Understanding Manic Episodes What Is a Manic Episode?

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

I was surprised to see an article on twin studies by Nancy L. Segal did not address the critics’ arguments in her brief CounterPunch article. Studies of Twins Reared Together (The “Classical Twin Method”) According to Segal in her CounterPunch article: “The classic twin study is simple and elegant. Bouchard, Jr.,

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Rebecca started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of two and was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and pediatric bipolar disorder. which questioned the rising cases of young children diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The civil case was settled in January of 2011 for $2.5

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

The purpose of the present article is to see how this theory, that homosexual repression is a frequent etiology of schizophrenia, has survived the test of time. I have published articles about all four of them in the Journal of Literature and Art Studies. They are available online. I am a pacifist and he glorified war.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As Whitaker noted, the research literature shows that psychosis pills and depression pills increase the chronicity of the disorders, and the same is true for stimulants, benzodiazepines, and drugs used for bipolar disorder. Many people will not know that an article has been published before it is too late to criticise it.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

One of many psychiatrists exposed by 2008 Congressional hearings on psychiatry’s financial relationship with drug companies was Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman—credited with creating pediatric bipolar disorder—who received $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The purpose of the present article is to raise the question of to what extent the mere fact of living in exile can help one recover from psychosis. Thus began a happy life in exile. During the past fifty-seven years I have done splendidly without once consulting a psychiatrist or taking psychiatric medicine. Exile is the best option.

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