Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The clinician might regard some treatment options as ill-suited to that particular patient: ketamine, for example, in a patient with bipolar disorder (because research has only just recently been expanded to include bipolar depression). One of the reasons: creating informative Patient Decision Aids (PDAs) is difficult.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

I have had a similarly educative but terrifying experience. Rose: Educations are like that. You write that you worry about how psychedelics are getting co-opted by pharmaceutical industries. At home there was a constant level of ambient chaos. I saw a lot of distressing things when I was very young and into my 20s.

Trauma and the brain 113

Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Psychedelic therapy Childhood trauma 113

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. A century ago, Paul Ehrlich, whose research helped create the modern pharmaceutical industry, saw the ideal medicine as a Magic Bullet, a drug that hits a target without causing collateral damage. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient.

Sleep and mental health 136

Sleep and mental health Legal Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 136

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Nonprofits 139

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. So their educations, and chances for good careers, will suffer. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 90

Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

Unfortunately, Maloney insists that all mental illness, including bipolar disorder and various neuroses as well as schizophrenia have their origin in bisexual confusion. He is extremely good-looking, highly educated and rich. This, I believe, goes a little too far. Why should back pain discourage suitors?

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Trauma and the brain Hospitality Pharmaceuticals Bipolar disorder 101

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As Whitaker noted, the research literature shows that psychosis pills and depression pills increase the chronicity of the disorders, and the same is true for stimulants, benzodiazepines, and drugs used for bipolar disorder. 650 None of this history is found in Insel’s book or on NIMH’s website.

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