Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. The anti-hero of the novel holds a preference for the perfect conception of himself.

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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. D reaming isa vitalpart of our existence, essential to memory consolidation and emotional processing. On average, their mental outlook improved by 36%.I

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

You might lose months of memory and some loss of self-esteem. Simply becoming aware of the concept is a start. Programs are rarely aware that while what theyre doing may be well intended their actions and treatments may be harmful or at least miss important marks. You would likely expect to die. You might even become catatonic.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. More aware of a need for humility.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We risk increasing this person’s depressed mood which in some cases can result in the person self-harming and then the EUPD diagnosis follows shortly after. In the meantime, I am a big believer on the mind-body relationship to healing, surrounding one-self with positivity and stories of hope and healing and avoiding any naysayers or doom.

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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

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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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 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.

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Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Self-defeat is a common symptom of Complex Trauma or PTSD. Closely tied to this are the thought patterns of self-defeat, which may manifest as nothing is going to help or I am never going to get out of this. Unfortunately, these shutdown states and self-defeating thoughts are all too common with PTSD and Complex Trauma.

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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

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 22, 2025

Telling people theyre destined for the worst possible outcome can create a self-fulfilling “nocebo” effect, reinforcing the very dependence they seek to escape. Respect for autonomy and self-determination in the context of informed consent is at the heart of the patients rights movement. Trust people to find their own way.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It constitutes a conceptual resource—a tool that offers another kind of understanding that is not confined to the malfunction-perspective often emphasized within the biomedical paradigm, which has the danger of functioning as a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is why it is sometimes important to also listen to what they are pointing towards.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Institutionalization refers to the establishment of large, bland, uniform, impersonal, hierarchical, bureaucratic, and coercive entities that increasingly rule our lives. Maybe one of us will have a chance one day to talk with Mark Vonnegut, and ask him about the source of that Krishnamurti quote.

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Sanity Daily

JANUARY 21, 2025

5/5 - (1 vote) Beating self-doubt as a woman is as important as you breathe without even thinking about it. Self-doubt and procrastination are not only time thieves but energy killers too. In this blog, I am to going talk about the ways I overcame self-doubt as a woman and stopped for nothing. Be kind to self 21.)

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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

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 Gretchen didn’t take the cue to move on from the self-injury talk, and kept pushing, and centering the responsibility for my ‘safety’ in others, rather than myself. Right now self injuring is helping.”

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the failures of the publicly funded long-term studies, CATIE and STAR*D, and psychiatry’s fraudulent reporting of these results. Insel is aware of this and promises to investigate why mental health outcomes in the United States are so poor. of those on citalopram in STAR*D, i.e. 10 times more.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The first prerequisite is to feel good about yourself, activating a process of awareness that allows you to acquire andstrengthen your self-esteem, break down stigma and open up to dialogue, even witha critical spirit. My role as ESP, therefore, leads me towards external contexts and towards self-recognition!

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child offers this definition of EF skills: “Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. A good starting point is the term “executive function.”

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Mad in America

MARCH 12, 2024

Mental health awareness is a movement that has everyone seeking treatment and support for their “mood disorders” and “personality disorders” and “neurodivergency”, but this system isn’t leading to wellness—it’s impeding it. Psychiatric verdicts are not just the property of those who deliver them.

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Mad in America

APRIL 27, 2024

Mad in America published two of his blogs and reported on his journal publications, and he provided Mad in America with STAR*D documents, including the protocol, that we posted on our website. Over the next few years, Pigott and colleagues published several more articles deconstructing the STAR*D results.

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Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. Although a growing number of people are aware of problems with psychiatric treatment, what remains taboo is challenging fundamental assumptions that equate mental health concerns with biomedical disorders.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2024

In this blog, he addresses the scientific literature on antidepressant efficacy and FDA approval. The subjects themselves and the psychiatrist raters of improvement may be aware of the condition (placebo or drug) which may falsely increase the “power” of the drug over placebo. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. Forest’s internal documents showed that company staff were aware of the problems.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2024

I might harness my occupational therapist’s skills to develop a self-reflection tool and make it available to independent users. Clarifications I am aware that the Social-Emotional Distress field has not been formally defined as such. My contribution to this space is yet to be explored. Time will tell.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In this blog, he begins a discussion on depression and antidepressant drugs. Therapists have known that some people are more prone to episodes of depression because of self-defeating attitudes (such as perfectionistic tendencies) that need modification through psychotherapy or behavioral treatment. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Rationally, a person can be aware of this. Basically, what is seen as pathology in classical mental health system is a complex web of surviving strategies and responses learned in early childhood and/or aversive circumstances, which then later in life, might cause suffering.

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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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Sanity Daily

JANUARY 30, 2025

My blog Sanity Daily was attacked and targeted by some digital marketer whom I trusted to the core. She not only left my blog to doom but also made sure I didn’t spread the word about her unprofessionalism, so she reached out to our few common contacts and manipulated them. Fight all the fears and conquer them, one at a time.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2024

In this article, I will outline simple yet powerful strategies to help you manage intense emotions, improve self-awareness, and develop healthier coping mechanisms. Enhance Self-Awareness The journey toward better emotional regulation begins with self-awareness.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For people who have a tendency towards self-blame, blaming themselves – having a blame the victim mentality directed at themselves – is subtle. This blog post – Sexual Coercion Is Sexual Abuse Lilly Hope Lucario points out that there are many different kinds of “Yeses.” Self-hatred Yes.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

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. And in today’s schools, there is no shortage of John boys or Mikeys. So what is our teacher, Miss Brown, to do? This is no good either. This constitutes science? This is medicine?

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Not necessarily, but they should, in the interest of holistic and compassionate treatment, be aware of how these factors influence and affect physical functioning. They are often immediately pathologized for self-reporting very human challenges, such as anxiety or panic, and backed into a diagnostic corner of being labeled and medicated.

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