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

JANUARY 16, 2024

S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. It has become obvious that we need to be better at addressing issues related to our psychological well-being. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

Our destinations were psychiatric hospitals or wards within general hospitals where my blood pressure and pulse could be brought down. Our destinations were psychiatric hospitals or wards within general hospitals where my blood pressure and pulse could be brought down. She took me to three in the city, big ones.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A new review published in CNS Drugs analyzes the current available treatment guidelines for monitoring the potential negative side effects of clozapine. Shockingly, based on their inclusion criteria, the authors only found one existing guideline.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in the UK. The author, Catherine Heseltine, is a psychiatric survivor, a mum to three wonderful children and a political activist in London. I want to start my story at the end. This holiday has been amazing. That was in fact my second stint in a locked psychiatric ward.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. T he one-size-fits-all autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, as configured in the Revised Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5-TR), is a clinical catastrophe. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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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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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Challenging the biological model of depression feels like a game of whack-a-mole: as soon as you put one theory to bed, another one sprouts up.

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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Alcohol is reinforcing because it increases dopamine release in the brain's reward system, particularly in the mesolimbic pathway, leading to feelings of pleasure, relaxation, and euphoria. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is the most common substance use disorder , affecting millions worldwide. Highest rates in ages 1829.

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Genetics and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 52

Zencare

JANUARY 3, 2025

This article contains thoughts from Allegra, Zencares Content Manager (and big Shrinking fan) and insights from therapist David Rothman, LCSW. Sean just landed in the hospital after getting into a fight. Welcome to part 2 of this series! Note that this blog post is full of spoilers youve been warned!

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals. How can we build a truly healing hospital that would love, nourish and heal all within, including the professionals who work there? When trauma is healed, so do our bodies. When trauma is healed, so do our bodies.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

After eight years of investigating cases and writing about them in my syndicated column and magazine long-form articles, I discovered that the system has been infiltrated by predators, financial predators who have simply, quite simply, bastardized the entire system. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

898, which was copied in a Web article for the Website Mad in America (C. I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital. A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep.

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Now Psych

MARCH 25, 2024

Of note, approximately 20% of patients hospitalized in mental health centers have borderline personality disorder, indicating that the disorder can seriously impact health. These parts of the brain are related to emotional regulation and impulse control. These parts of the brain are related to emotional regulation and impulse control.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Astor’s commercial goal was composed of two parts: an ill-fated seagoing venture which sent a crew around the tip of South America, and the Overland Party, the one with which Pelton and Day were connected—each in different ways, but with similar experiences of trauma. There are lessons in the accounts of both men.

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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. 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.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals. L ast year I attended a prestigious international psychiatric conference at PGI Chandigarh, India, a medical school of considerable reputation in South Asia.

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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. I know very well that my psychosis was a consequence of numerous traumas that had nothing to do with the chemicals in my brain. Thus began a happy life in exile.

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