Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2024

In terms of helping, a more constructive perspective is to look at all the activities of the human mind in response to life’s events. In the book, Seikkula emphasizes, through its many twists and turns, that the most difficult mental health problems should be seen as an active activity of the mind in insurmountable stressful situations.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

with) a specially constructed instrument, a thin, sharp knife like a blade about four inches long. He claimed that relatives were clammering (sic) for the operation, and described it as standard procedure. He informed the Board of Control that it consists of trephining the skull in the temporal frontal region.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Most in the taskforce also agreed that the criteria for the ADHD construct to be used are highly subjective and contextually situated and there is a risk of pathologizing normal (or often functional) behavior.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Economic systems are portrayed as immutable laws of nature, obscuring the fact that they are human constructs. Economic systems are portrayed as natural laws, rather than human constructs that could be reimagined. Capitalism, for instance, is often defended as the pinnacle of human progress, despite its deep flaws.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The usefulness of this construct is almost never questioned by the mainstream, taken as fact because “experts” deem it so. According to psychiatrists, the suicidal person is suffering from a sickness of the mind: their “mental illness” is making them a threat to themselves! Pesky “mental illness.”

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Mad in America

MARCH 23, 2024

When we understand that our issues are not caused by an illness, we open the door to construct new meanings. What unites survivors is the search to rethink what was placed on them by psychiatry, and in many cases, the experience of a process of demedicalizing their own suffering, through critical reflection on their own history.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Foucault believed this concept is faulty because it ignores its cultural background—namely, the construction of an institutionalized education system. “If He then references the Freudian concept of “infantile regression” (the tendency for the madman to resume childlike behavior).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Ignored by establishment psychiatry, many renowned thinkers have questioned the entire wheel of current consensus reality, concluding that it is an unnatural construction that has dehumanized us. Many of these prominent thinkers—such as Erich Fromm, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lewis Mumford, Ivan Illich, and E.F.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Yet rather than engage with this, the authors strategically construct arguments as though they are unaware of any such issue. It is unlikely that evidence of harm from psychiatric treatments or financial conflicts of interest among psychiatric researchers are unknown to the letter authors.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

We hope to learn together from this pilot project and use what we have learned to keep constructing more multifamily groups to counter the confusion, blame, shame and loneliness that interferes with the healing power of hope.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Psychiatry’s aura of superiority may be what enabled it to convince people that mental illnesses are real physical illnesses, even though they’re opposites: First psychiatry constructed a fantasy about emotional distress being a medically-treatable disease caused by a chemical imbalance or brain anomaly.Then it turned it into a reality (..)

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Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

By blurring the lines between the literal and figurative, battlefield metaphors do more than explain similarities, they also construct them. As Dhruv Khullar observes, terms like ‘fighting’ or ‘battling’ tend to create a perception of health as adversarial, setting a confrontational tone.

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Solara Mental Health

JULY 30, 2021

A quick google search reveals ten positive Instagram blogs you can follow, which claim to boost your positivity. Stay Away From Toxic Positivity Positivity is a good thing it helps you constructively live your life. The 21st century has seen the rise of social media and a shift in the way people view positivity.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Emotional regulation is not about suppressing feelings; its about understanding them, responding thoughtfully, and using them constructively. Instead, focus on constructive coping strategies such as: Physical Activity: Exercise releases endorphins, which improve mood and reduce stress.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Instead of investing in harmful spyware technology, school administrators, parents, and guardians should work together to create safe spaces for learning and foster constructive relationships between students.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. Laboratory studies provided the scientific basis for the development of a vaccine. Basic biological research originating in James Watson and Francis Crick’s laboratory led to the discovery of DNA. Proteins keep us alive.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Psychology has become a giant, its terms and constructs now part of the cultural lexicon, and yet it is one with clay feet. Psychology has greatly broadened its scope since Nietzsche’s day and yet his implied criticism is one the discipline is still wrestling with.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2024

This process led me many years later to recognize that in my poetics metaphors are not constructed but are seen or heard, as visions or voices. This is how I understood that listening to the subtexts of a scene is listening to what the characters do not say, just as recognizing a vision is discovering what they do not show.

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Zencare

JANUARY 2, 2025

Welcome to a new blog format! Note that this blog post is full of spoilers youve been warned! Episode 6: In a Lonely Place Synopsis: Seans in the hospital after getting into a fight with the construction workers from the neighborhood. Written by David Rothman, LCSW and Allegra Balmadier, Content Manager at Zencare.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is tempting to suggest that the pharmaceutical industry and others that feed off their profits have been on to this for some time, but they exploit it as marketing rather than open, constructive research. The post Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being appeared first on Mad In America.

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Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2024

Spencer writes: ‘I am certain that some things died for me between my eighth and 13th birthdays…Innocence, trust, joy – all were trampled on and diminished in that outdated, snobbish, vicious little world that English high society constructed and endorsed, handed over to the care of people who could be very dangerous indeed.’

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Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If we construct elaborate systems of defenses to buffer us from reality, this is only testimony to the raw, tender quality of the open mind and heart underlying them. If we can sharpen our awareness, then we can catch ourselves in the act of constructing these stories and so begin to see through them.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

By applying principles from quality management, psychiatry can learn to approach nonconformity in a more constructive and nuanced way. Behaviors that deviate from societal norms are frequently pathologized, framed as disorders to be fixed rather than expressions to be understood.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 1, 2024

It is a very ambiguous description that more or less guarantees discrepancy from practitioner to practitioner.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

DECEMBER 5, 2024

People with a healthy relationship to anger learn to deal with it constructively so that it doesnt harm others or themselves. Trying to ensure you never feel any anger is unhealthy and leads to toxic internalising and emotional dishonesty. What Happens When You Get Angry Too Much? This is rumination.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Understanding the distinction can help individuals approach stress in healthier, more constructive ways. While stress is inevitable in life, fostering more eustress and learning coping mechanisms for distress can significantly improve well-being and productivity. Thankfully, there are ways to reduce stress. Habits to help reduce stress 1.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Palliative volunteers even construct shelters and provide food for free, which increases treatment adherence. The majority of patients suffer from depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia, which are rooted in the lack of primary needs such as food. Many lack a secure home to live in.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. The implications for therapeutic intervention were discussed in the previous blog. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor).

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Real Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

All I can remember about it today is frog dissections, the genetics of taste testing and tongue rolling, and the idea that race was a social construct that had nothing to do with biology. Thats right the social construct bomb was dropped in the middle of the Great White North in 1965 and it did not make a sound.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

A healing hospital would adopt philosophies and principles of design, construction, material use, energy and water use, regeneration of the natural environment and all other measures that protect and heal our biosphere. In order for the world and our communities to survive, we need to radically adapt our ways.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Coed Hills is an off-grid sustainable arts community where members grow food using permaculture techniques, run a pottery studio, construct their own yurts and cabins, and host eclectic events such as this retreat.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 23, 2024

O ne of the defining features in the socially constructed mental disorders in the DSM is the concept of “impairment.” and “How is clinically significant distress analyzed as a construct?” In order to get a diagnosis for certain mental conditions, significant distress or disturbance in functioning in certain areas of life is required.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

What about the aesthetic needs of therapists, to be in an office of their design, that puts them at ease, the predictability and constancy of the imagery allowing for a real settling in experience with clients—a zone of comfort that emboldens them to constructively engage with clients’ emotional discomfort?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We all have lived in families of different constructions. Does anyone really know the percentage of families who are abusive and the number who are loving and supportive of a troubled member? Are there any perfect families?

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Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2024

Warren: I still update my Substack blog, Of Unsound Mind. I wanted to do something of great violence to it and see what I could discover by characterizing it in a way that I think both sides would be unhappy with. We’re trying to recreate some network affiliations and hopefully host some collective events and in-person meetings.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Their family members trust their loved one is engaging in the program, and it would be unethical to keep someone if indeed they choose not to engage thereby disrupting the constructive energy which nourishes the other Seekers. During the tapering process, it’s a wonderful moment when someone states: “I am beginning to feel my Self again.”

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Mad in America

MARCH 4, 2025

Sexual sanism is a label Ive used to describe the ways in which sexuality and sanism are co-constructed in our society. As a discourse of oppression, it links the oppressions of queer and Mad people together, in a way that requires us to work towards our mutual liberation. What do I mean by this?

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