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Ten Years Later: Still Shooting the Odds

Mad in America

I t was about 10 years ago I wrote in a MIA blog post that if I thought that it was possible, I would have opened a string of clinics all over the country to help get people off of antidepressants. My blog post goes on to explain this in more detail. There is research that shows SSRIs enhance BDNF gene expression.

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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental health Crisis

Mad in America

With convenience right at our fingertips, it seems paradoxical that, despite our relative prosperity, we suffer some of the highest rates of mental illness compared to any other part of the world, with more than 1 in 5 US adults living with mental illness. If that were the case, most of us would not be sitting here today.

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Spring Forward: A New Season for Your Mental Health

Montana Psychiatry

While the beauty of our state, from Billings to Bozeman, is undeniable, its understandable that winters extended gloom can affect your mood and mental health. The days are getting longer, the sun is shining brighter, and with it, you have an opportunity to refresh your mental health.

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Mental Health And The Gut-Brain Connection – It’s More Complicated Than You Think

The London Psychiatry Centre

If you work to look after your mental health, you may have heard about the gut-brain connection. You may be wondering: Is there a link between gut health and mental health? For a long time, the gut might be the last place a person looked when concerned about their mental health. Read on to learn more.

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Systemic Insanity

Mad in America

To understand mental illness, we first need to understand what a person really is. Psychologists help people who feel bad and doctors prescribe medicine for broken brains with a lack of one or another neurotransmitter. Mental illness is usually caused by something happening. W hat is a human being?

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How Functional Medicine Helps with Anxiety

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Anxiety is one of the most common mental health challenges, affecting millions of people worldwide. Functional medicine, however, takes a holistic approach to treating anxiety by identifying and targeting the underlying imbalances that contribute to mental health concerns.

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

Mad in America

The prevailing logic goes: if we can validate biometric tests that are clinically predictive of mental health concerns like in other medical fields, we can more precisely, effectively, and without (solely) subjective clinical observation, treat the malady. Should we give up the search for biomarkers altogether?