Remove Bipolar disorder Remove Blog Remove Self-awareness
article thumbnail

Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

This blog is not about the cruelty of psychiatric institutions, although they can be cruel. Instead, what this blog is about is earning the right to be freed from such societal constraints. It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention.

article thumbnail

How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

Mad in America

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

Mad in America

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.

article thumbnail

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

Mad in America

In this blog, he discusses the failures of the publicly funded long-term studies, CATIE and STAR*D, and psychiatry’s fraudulent reporting of these results. Insel is aware of this and promises to investigate why mental health outcomes in the United States are so poor. of those on citalopram in STAR*D, i.e. 10 times more.

article thumbnail

The Challenge of Presenting Antidepressant Risks and Benefits

Mad in America

In a study of patients with migraine headache, patients were aware that they might receive a placebo or an anti-migraine medication called Maxalt. Here, the balancing act is self-preservation, if you will, versus patient autonomy. After all, we do call these medications “anti-depressants”, right?

article thumbnail

35 Years Strong: Theo’s Journey of Sobriety, Recovery, and Mental Health Resilience

Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

Theo Resslers journey to sobriety spans decades of courage, support, and deep self-reflection. Theo dealt with bouts of bipolar disorder and deep-seated shame from his years of addiction. In recent years, Theo has shifted his focus to deeper levels of self-care, adopting practices like swimming, yoga, and restorative sleep.

article thumbnail

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

Just for context, the decade of the brain was defined as the period between 1990 and 1999, and it was part of a large effort involving the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institutes of Health to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research. Then we got juvenile bipolar disorder.