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Irrational Polypharmacy: How Integrated Mental Health Treatment Can Help

Mad in America

Our practice recognizes that a person’s maladaptive behavior and emotional dysregulation is closely related to the individual’s experiences and is maintained by dysfunctional family dynamics, lack of community support and unhealthy interpersonal relationships.

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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Mad in America

Community support workers and peer support workers had a supervisor who carried out activities in delivering the intervention. We have concluded our pilot intervention which is currently going through evaluation. We partnered with indigenous Not-for-Profit organizations to implement our pilot intervention.

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

Mad in America

Suppose exercise is constrained by co-morbidities; and behavioral activation is unrealistic due to life circumstances; and peer and community support is limited; and fish oil is not regarded as a sufficiently robust intervention.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

That’s one of the reasons, by the way, that Mad in America has personal stories, and that we also have blogs talking about these initiatives such as respite houses. Moore: This is from Kent who says, why is the critical psychiatry community often so skeptical of psychedelics? Whitaker: That’s why we need a grassroots rebellion.