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Newstalk Radio: Dr Art Malone discusses the urgent need for specialist care for eating disorders

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Despite a plan to open 20 new specialist beds for eating disorders by 2023, there remain just 3 beds to cover the entire country. ’ A 21 year-old with a chronic eating disorder says that she was in and out of hospitals many times before she was 18. She said ‘receiving that help gives you your life back.’

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

Mad in America

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse.

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The Power Dynamics of Psychedelic Therapy

Mad in America

As a psychotherapist, I’ve come to see that many of the people I work with who struggle with OCD, anxiety, depression, complex-post traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, and addiction have deep childhood and cultural wounds stemming from people and systems that hurt them.

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Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry  

Mad in America

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. I see and hear.

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The Mental Health Crisis of Today’s Youth—The Hidden Culprit Every Parent and Therapist Should Know About

Mad in America

Internal struggles often escalate later in life when thrown into a competitive college environment or workplace, which include eating disorders and addictive behaviors. Their strong need to be seen as competent conceals the sad truth that they can look well-adjusted and successful on the outside, but inside they suffer silently.

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

Mad in America

But she has an eating disorder,’ my mother said. Once again, my older brother walked into the kitchen where I was talking to my mother. He saw me in distress. Tell her to pull her socks up,’ he told my mother. He was twenty-nine. He had not been sent to boarding school.

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Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions

Mad in America

Among women, mood and eating disorders are three times more common than those attributed to men. When it comes to understanding the conflicts and ailments that women and dissidents experience on a daily basis, it is surprising how quickly these sufferings are transformed into diagnoses and multiple diagnoses.