Article Self-awareness Sleep and mental health 
Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. Shortly after the article was published, and the break-up occurred, I was hospitalized and diagnosed as bipolar. First, how many hours of sleep did I get the night before?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Researchers in Australia assigned more than 1,000 young teenagers to one of two classes: either a typical middle-school health class or one that taught a version of a mental-health treatment called dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT. Another, they were told to sleep more, eat right, and exercise.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article is being simultaneously published on Mad in America and on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. I do think there is a role for ‘antidepressants’ because I am pro good mental health care, but we need to talk about the risks versus the benefits of these drugs.
Mad in America
MAY 30, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on Mad in Norway. I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails.
Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.”
Mad in America
MARCH 2, 2024
Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows substantial reductions in mortality rates from infectious diseases that once caused widespread fatalities.
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