Mad in America

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I was diagnosed with Bipolar II at age 12 and attempted suicide at age 13. I read books from the library on Taoism, Buddhism, nihilism, and modern psychology. A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. I was in ICU for 11 days, and on a ventilator for four of those days. So to back way up, as a kid I was brilliant.

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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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This includes treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia and the depressive phases of bipolar disorder, despite the fact that SSRIs can sometimes trigger manic episodes. C urrently, antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs for a wide range of diagnoses, not just depression and anxiety.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In her new book The Maps We Carry , she writes about the dawning realization that the “illness” story she had believed in and publicly advocated for, was wretchedly incomplete and often dangerous. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives.

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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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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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. I told myself that this was surely a Beatific Vision.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

R obert Whitaker, in his book Mad in America, writes: Little is known about what causes schizophrenia (p. In 1911, Freud published his book The Schreber Case , in which he attributes the schizophrenic psychosis of the German judge Daniel Paul Schreber to his homosexual repression. This torture lasted two years.

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