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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

Mad in America

During 2024, we published 155 blogs , 244 reviews of scientific findings , 43 personal stories and 41 MIA reports , of which 22 were podcast interviews. Here we highlight the top ten of Mad in Americas most-read blogs and personal stories of 2024. You can become a MIA Supporter for $5 per month or $20 annually. That has not happened.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

Mad in America

In this blog, he addresses increases in suicide and homicide caused by antidepressant drugs. Recently, in browsing the internet on healthcare blogs, I came across one on the very timely topic of the increasing suicide rate. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In Kansas the rise in suicide was 45 percent!

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Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

Mad in America

It’s a piecemeal, parcelized collection of public institutions, non-profits, and private agencies, funded by an equally complicated system of public and private money managed by insurance companies. Per health insurance policy I’d already written a treatment plan on him, despite only having met him once, a month ago.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

At that time, I already had a personal blog based on my first book, Mad in America, and I began running other blogs. It became evident that it would be useful to have a website that provided those three things, a forum for personal experiences, a place for blogs, and research news. Moore: Another anonymous question.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 2)

Mad in America

In this blog, he addresses off-label prescribing as well as physicians’ anti-science pushback against the use of well-conducted clinical trials. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Advantages And Disadvantages For In-Person Treatments And Telehealth

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

In this blog, well explore the telehealth advantages and disadvantages, comparing them with in-person care to help you decide which option works best for your situation. Insurance Coverage Variability Some insurance providers do not fully cover telehealth services, leading to potential out-of-pocket expenses for patients.

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On the Brink of Murder Because of an Antidepressant

Mad in America

Then, her private insurance ran out, and she was admitted to a public hospital where they stopped all the drugs cold turkey. This was also serious medical malpractice. It is very dangerous to stop psychiatric drugs abruptly, which can cause akathisia, suicide and homicide.