Blog Construction Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
DECEMBER 21, 2024
From the safety of ones surroundings to access to proper nutrition, sleep, and social stability, the circumstances of life have a lasting biochemical effect on the brain. These areas of the brain impact how a person reacts to the world. Those with high ACE scores have brains physically different from those with low or no ACE scores.
Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2025
T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there. This is in contrast with the typical chronological history of who served as superintendent, for how long, the date new buildings were opened and other such changes.
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Mad in America
JULY 29, 2024
In this blog, a therapist who works with children and young people expands on some of these worrying consequences, including the imposition of identities, the co-option of the neurodiversity movement for personal and professional gain, the restrictions on therapeutic work, and the silencing of dissenting views. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we—e.g.
Mad in America
JANUARY 16, 2024
S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. It has become obvious that we need to be better at addressing issues related to our psychological well-being. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
T he way psychiatry treats those who deviate from the norm is akin to the outdated and unhelpful way that industry used to understand the assembly linesomething that manufacturing started moving away from by the mid-20 th century. Good product was shipped. At the time, it was common for management to blame the operators. Or the machines.
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. Neuroscience has demonstrated that outrage can arouse the brains reward centres. Or maybe youve been feeling flat but you suspect that underneath that sensation is ongoing frustration, anger and irritability.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series is being archived here.
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