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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
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.
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Mad in America
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
I will always wonder whether I got worse because of me or because of damage to my brain? T his is all written to the best of my memory. I worked, I had a life. But then I languished on disability for twenty-six years. Dystonia, kidney failure, possibly the hypothyroidism was my lot for serving as a drug whore for psychiatry.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 22, 2024
The real question is whether the “brighter future” is always so distant. When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? I believe these kinds of questions will shape our understanding of the future of mental health. Yet these things are not acts of God.
Lawyers with Depression
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Norton, including, The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It and Anxiety + Depression: Effective Treatment of the Big Two Co-Occurring Disorders. Wehrenberg is a clinical psychologist in Naperville, Illinois. What is depression a response to?
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.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).
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