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

Mad in America

The topic of mental health is on the public’s mind, whether it’s the popularizing of therapy speak, the increased attention paid to severe mental illness and homelessness, or pop psychology advice on TikTok. This scenario in public psychiatry settings is, unfortunately, a familiar one.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression

Mad in America

I detail Mom’s full story in this blog post , and I relate both of our stories in my memoir Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery. No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD.

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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. A prime example is, as I have mentioned, the off-label prescribing of an FDA-approved drug for one health problem for a different health problem, a practice devoid of any evidence to support it.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

Mad in America

Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? It was also then that I started taking quetiapine (Seroquel) in addition to citalopram for a better night’s sleep. When I did manage to taper off a bit, I felt an immediate improvement in my health.

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How Many TMS Sessions Are Needed

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is an innovative, non-invasive treatment option for mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The number of sessions required depends on individual factors such as condition severity, treatment response, and personal health history.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

Mad in America

In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. The patient is often in the best position to help and address their own health problems but patients need knowledge in order to help treat their health problem.