Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

The WHO authors wrote: The perceived need for coercion is built into mental health systems, including in professional education and training, and is reinforced through national mental health and other legislation.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 5, 2024

I worked as an NHS psychiatrist for over 25 years and as part of my continuing medical education regularly came across the work of a number of the respondents. ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post The Influence of Paid Opinion Leaders on Antidepressant Prescribing in the UK appeared first on Mad In America.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. This causes confusion for providers and unnecessary suffering for patients.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These percentages appear nowhere in the article they cite. [12] 12] The article shows the results in a graph from which I measured that 69% versus 34% were very much or much improved. These percentages appear nowhere in the article they cite. [12] I shall write more about the pivotal Norwegian court trial later.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 28, 2023

O n September 9, Mad in America set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract its 2006 article that told of a 67% remission rate in the STAR*D trial. At that time, we put up a petition on change.org urging that the Am J of Psychiatry retract the 2006 article. Mad in America, a U.S.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt cofounded the Heterodox Academy , whose mission, by welcoming both liberals and conservatives, is to advance open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement across higher education. Feedback on this article? So, is psychology, and our teaching of it, a liberal or a conservative enterprise?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

The article, written by John Miller, editor-in-chief of Psychiatric Times , prompted readers to consider the possible extraordinary harm done. To conduct this campaign, the NIMH enlisted “labor, religious, educational groups” and businesses to help spread its message. The drug was marketed as an antidote to a disease.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article was written by Marnie Wedlake, PhD, RP, Mad in Canada’s founding publisher. O n February 16 th , CBC News published an online article: ‘ Quebec doctors to face increased scrutiny for overprescription of anti-anxiety medication’. This piece first appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in Canada.

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Mad in America

MAY 18, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in Ireland. There is a group for collaborative practice and self-education for mental health professionals and trainees. Those groups are not in themselves a form of therapy; rather they offer therapeutic support and education. All HVN offer self-help groups.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Furthermore, even though I have sometimes used recent articles to demonstrate that the authors are wrong, the knowledge I convey has existed for many years prior to 2016. If we lose the leading psychologists, there is little hope for the patients who would then need to consult therapists with lesser educations. 10:63 This is b t.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

Hill then asks and attempts to answer two questions that are highly relevant to contemporary psychiatry: “So, given this shift in thinking, why did Dr. Rush, one of the most brilliant and educated men of his day, hold on to this near-obsolete practice so unswervingly, even in the face of opposing evidence?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2025

The majority of participants were white (92.3%), female (80.1%), and college-educated (63%). The sample was primarily white, female, and college-educated. Men, non-white ethnicities, and people without a college education were likely underrepresented in the current research. for more than five years.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Mad in the UK. Of course it wouldn’t be such a secret if there was education in schools!! If they had been sufficiently prepared or helped by education on how to handle their “schizophrenia”, would it still have happened? And I wasn’t alone. Why wasn’t I told how common it is?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Well-meaning child practitioners who take the current DSM autism criteria at face value likely assume that the widely-used ASD diagnosis provides them with understanding of and insight into children’s developmental difficulties and a reliable basis for making educational placement and treatment recommendations. selective mutism.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That loss of assistance leaves them vulnerable to medical misdiagnosis, isolation in solitary confinement, denial of legal and educational opportunities, sexual abuse, and bullying, prisoner advocates and relatives say. ‘It mirrors or echoes what goes on in society. But behind bars, the situation can be even more dire.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the most part, parents put pressure on their children to succeed academically because they understand that education equals opportunity, and they want their children to have a better life. It seemed like she was more concerned about Patrick’s being able to focus in order to get good grades than his emotional well-being.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

In November 2022 I was given an article about the discredited ‘chemical imbalance’ theory supporting SSRI prescription by a neuroscientist colleague I was collaborating with and who contributed to Mad in America, about which I knew nothing. He gave me the article as an example of his more recent work. All of this was new.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2024

The agency had flagged the 2020 warning label, known as a ‘boxed warning,’ to physicians’ groups, but it had not required that doctors be educated about the drug’s side effects. Article → More from Around the Web More from Mad in the Family The post The FDA Warned an Asthma Drug Could Induce Despair. Many Were Never Told.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The difficulties stopping antidepressant are summarized by Dr. John Read in a Psychology Today article updated on 9/15/23. Dr. Read recognizes the need for greater education of mental health professionals to assist with deprescribing. Too often to be able to say that this is very rare and unlikely to happen.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 22, 2025

She secured millions in federal funding to study the epidemiology of psychiatric drug use and to develop community-based strategies that reduce reliance on psychiatric labels and medicationsstrategies that also improved educational outcomes. The article mentioned a local doctor by name. Siem: What is a multidisciplinary assessment?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Can the Rate of Antidepressant Prescribing Be Reversed? .’ The BSLM adds that systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials indicate that ‘interventions to improve physical activity and nutrition may be as effective as antidepressants for some people.’

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

They also recommend educating patients on the potential adverse effects of clozapine so they can feel empowered to make informed decisions about their treatment. The approach offered by the authors addresses a clear gap in the literature. However, others have argued against the use of clozapine at all.

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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. Genetic studies are also the cause of many misunderstandings. S.te.meerman@rug.nl

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I was also his case manager—which meant that because Liam was designated with special education needs, I kept track of all his academic progress, helped his teachers work effectively with him to meet the goals in his Individualized Education Program (IEP), and checked in with him on a regular basis.

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ADDitude

MARCH 12, 2025

According to an article published last week by Medscape , rescinding the FDAs authorization for these medications would be very difficult,” requiring years of public meetings and evidence that the medications are unsafe. To support our mission of providing ADHD education and support, please consider subscribing.

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Mad in America

JULY 29, 2024

It was also accepted that all of us need to learn difficult lessons about how to interact with others, through parental and educational guidance. A great deal of research backs up his statement; it is clear that challenging educational environments are putting all young people under huge pressure.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Mad in Norway. They come from knowledge acquired through education and experience, personal aptitude, relational skills and a genuine desire to contribute constructively to the individual. ” I n no way would I be offended or angry if you use the term therapist for me.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

Other deficiencies included underfunding, overcrowding, a need for unspecified changes to civil commitment and sterilization laws, improved education with a closer relationship to the medical school, and better treatment for the mentally ill in other hospitals and almshouses. Some of them scream, but you soon become accustomed to that.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In a recent article , however, I examined the research-base, finding that outcome monitoring is less helpful than is generally thought, and how its growing predominance can be attributed to sociopolitical influences in our healthcare systems.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I have seen this occur in all walks of life and the phenomena has no respect for intelligence, education or economic position in society. To me, the Time article suggests it is another street hallucinogenic, “feel good” drug that does not treat depression. The Time magazine cover story reads “Depression afflicts 16 million Americans.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 14, 2025

World Bipolar Day 2025 is a call to action, an opportunity to educate, support, and empower those living with bipolar disorder. Educating the Public About Bipolar Disorder Common myths about bipolar disorder include: Its just mood swings. By fostering bipolar disorder awareness, we can replace stigma with empathy and education.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2024

They are willing to entertain my conjecture and have meaningful conversations where they have both educated me as well as seriously considered the observational and logical statements I present. This opening discussion represents two critical elements that will be covered in this article.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article is being simultaneously published on Mad in America and on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. I understood classism but thought that if I educated my children, everything would be fine. W hy do I do the work that I do? It began with a childlike desire for those I believed in to believe in me.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In October 2023 I wrote an article for Mad in America, “Survivors and Families Working Together for Change.” The groups are designed to provide education and support—not therapy. Since then, with dedicated volunteers, a steering committee has been established.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Illich notes: “Industrial parents, forced to procreate manpower for a world into which nobody fits who has not been crushed and molded by sixteen years of formal education, feel impotent to care personally for their offspring and, in despair, shower them with medicine.”

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Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2024

If parents who sent their sons to the school in 1974 had been told that such abuse was a normal and acceptable part of the education their children were to receive, all but the cruellest of parents, I wager, would have removed their sons immediately. In December 2022, I wrote an article about my own experience at boarding school.

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