Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

T he decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. This paper is surprising since Torrey has long argued that schizophrenia is a brain disease to be treated biomedically. Fuller Torrey.

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Genetics and mental health Bipolar disorder Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

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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Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model 111

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

By late November, 2018, Matt found a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with Bipolar 1 disorder after one visit, prescribed Latuda, tapered him off Prozac, and practically sentenced him to be medicated for life with an overall “fair” prognosis. The ER physician had given him Prozac. I could see his lifeless eyes.

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Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 120

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She is also a writer and producer on Netflix’s 3 Body Problem.

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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. For the first time in over a year, I awoke to it coursing through my body: a familiar, paralyzing anxiety accompanied by feelings of terror.

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

Now Psych

MAY 20, 2024

Schizoaffective disorder (SA) is a disorder that combines the symptoms of schizophrenia ( psychosis ) with the symptoms of a mood disorder ( depression or bipolar) in a complex way. It is sometimes misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all because it is a relatively uncommon disorder, and it is not fully understood.

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Bipolar disorder Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This article is the result of my quest. W hen I had my first schizophrenic hallucination 61 years ago, I told myself that I was in the privileged position of having the terrifying knowledge of what such a hallucination actually is. I had seen the Light and it was divine. I told myself that this was surely a Beatific Vision.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Bipolar disorder Education 115