Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Financial disadvantage, unemployment, low income, low education or low material standard of living directly impacts mental health. It is important to educate people on how to process the pain in a constructive manner, how to give oneself more options or how to find more options in scarce circumstances.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 1, 2024

My anecdotal explanation is that psychologists and psychiatrists are more concerned with self-preservation and their own ego, despite the latter actually being medical doctors. The answer lies in the fundamental nature of any tribe, band or clan; self-sufficiency. What is the purpose of awareness?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. The eleven study participants come from diverse backgrounds interms ofgender, age, ethnicity, education, religion, and relationships.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 2, 2025

In 2025, as mental health awareness continues to grow, counseling is playing a more prominent role in education. This blog explores the top 10 benefits of counseling for students, highlighting how it enhances mental well-being, academic success, and overall personal growth. Why is counseling important?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I was also his case manager—which meant that because Liam was designated with special education needs, I kept track of all his academic progress, helped his teachers work effectively with him to meet the goals in his Individualized Education Program (IEP), and checked in with him on a regular basis.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Contemporary education readily acknowledges this fact. Why, she can send an email home to John boy’s parents—make them aware of his deficits. And Miss Brown will not be made aware of this until the day of. Mr. Blue is highly educated. His undergrad is in Biology, he has a master’s in education and was trained as a lawyer.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

I had some vague awareness that patients occasionally had a “bad reaction” to a pill, but I assumed that these reactions were one in a million and it never crossed my mind that something like permanent genital numbness could occur. As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. Its different elements often exhibit tremendous growth and vitality in their isolation, but they appear to have little awareness of each other. For the same reason, it remains painfully fragmented and siloed.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2024

It reeks of colonial saviourism, perpetuating the modern rhetoric that mental health was ignored in traditional societies and that only modern societies, with their enlightened ways of looking at the self and the world, give importance to it and therefore, should serve as the champions of expanding this cause worldwide.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — otherwise known as the American dream. We need justice for victims.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I I kept pushing, and frankly, trying to educate a bit, too. Right now self injuring is helping.” Jen: “What are you doing to self-harm right now?” You don’t send people for that do you?

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Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 130

Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Anniek: I had cleared six months of time to make sure I had time for optimal self-care. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

But I give you access to my professional perspectives and reflections, in the hope and belief that you will be able to use them for increased self-awareness and personal growth. I don’t change the way you think. I am not seeking a cure for cognitive or emotional disorders.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me. Unlike after my first admission I internalised my new self-image as a bipolar psychiatric patient and it ended up literally disabling me.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this blog, he addresses antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine and esketamine, and the new frontier of drugs for postpartum depression. I have seen this occur in all walks of life and the phenomena has no respect for intelligence, education or economic position in society. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, the creation of a “Prozac Nation” might not have been successful without the help of the NIMH, which launched an “educational campaign” at that time designed to change the public’s understanding of depression. Four of the eight are BMJ blogs reporting on the “most read” BMJ articles, and not per se about the scandal.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Hospitality Education Self-awareness 144

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In a study of patients with migraine headache, patients were aware that they might receive a placebo or an anti-migraine medication called Maxalt. Here, the balancing act is self-preservation, if you will, versus patient autonomy. After all, we do call these medications “anti-depressants”, right?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Whether the anger is turned inward on the self or outward toward others, dreadful destruction results.” The groups are designed to provide education and support—not therapy. Now I am aware that meaning is manifested in the way I live my life rather than in the ruminating. philosophizing and searching to conquer life’s mysteries.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I haven’t been able to write for my blog for months as I created this coloring book. Each of the first 13 illustrations in this adult coloring book is accompanied by a mindfulness activity or somatic therapy exercise that teaches you how to ground into your body and self-regulate your own nervous system. Mindful Walking 3.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Awareness of this potential should, at least, have a role to play in guiding how services approach ‘sustaining remission’, and the advice they offer.

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Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. She has grown into a more compassionate and well-rounded Certified Health Education Specialist and Mental Health First Aid provider from her experiences with her husband’s mental health issues.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 52

Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Shes a frequent contributor to the award-winning magazine, Psychotherapy Networker and she blogs on depression for the magazine Psychology Today. The loss of a self-esteem, a loss of a loved one, the loss of a desired goal. Then you have a positive self-appraisal. Dr. Wehrenberg: Because depression comprises sadness.

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Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Theo Resslers journey to sobriety spans decades of courage, support, and deep self-reflection. Daily group sessions, close relationships with therapists, and a connection to the broader 12-step community helped Theo create a life centered on wellness and self-awareness. Theo, happy and healthy. Courtesy of Theo Ressler.

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Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Specific losses may be involved: loss of a loved one, a career, cherished illusions, material possessions, or self-esteem. Because everything is constantly changing, no continuous, solid self can be found or experienced. GRIEF & DEFEAT Loss of heart arises from a basic sense of grief and defeat.

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Construction Self-awareness Aging and mental health Technology 52

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. The implications for therapeutic intervention were discussed in the previous blog.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In a previous blog , I made the argument that oppression originating in unjust social structures and practices is the single greatest factor contributing to human suffering. These determinants include physical environment, access to food, education, employment, and health care.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. They have no awareness of the dormant forces within them awaiting recognition and activation, because the emphasis is to look outside of oneself for comfort and relief. I believe that because we each have our own resilient Spirit, we are creators.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The current approach to suicide prevention and supporting people in distress in Australia is a system of failure: the current approach is dominated by influential organisations and self-anointed mental health experts who work aggressively to perpetuate an unhelpful over-medicalised approach to distress.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Raising awareness about depression, screening for it, and teaching that its common but underdiagnosed, at first glance seem like good things. So its particularly easy to get them to adopt an inferior self-image.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2025

Broader, community through education. Understanding that mental health struggles are often rooted in systemic and environmental factors allows us to offer more compassionate, context-aware support. We can educate and explain, offering perspectives that promote understanding. Reach out as best you can to the persons natural self.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, he wrote a Mad in America blog, “What if the Folly Is in Us, Too?” I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. One is with educational non-profit Moving Images in Vancouver, their market is universities, colleges, and libraries. Those endeavours became Bay St.

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