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When the Help Becomes Part of the Problem

Mad in America

All ten cells that outlined the U-shaped corridor were constructed out of white-painted cinder block, plexiglass, and bolts. She ended the conversation by telling me that I could ask the staff for more sleeping medication if I needed it and that she’d see me the following day. The unit resembled a detention center.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.