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Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
This blog is not about the cruelty of psychiatric institutions, although they can be cruel. Instead, what this blog is about is earning the right to be freed from such societal constraints. It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention.
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. Waking dreams are natural phenomenathat occurwhen people experience dreamlike mental activities while awake. I grew up in China and immigrated to the U.S.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows substantial reductions in mortality rates from infectious diseases that once caused widespread fatalities.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like. I have seen this merry-go-round all too often.
Mad in America
MARCH 2, 2024
Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? 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.
Mad in America
MAY 30, 2024
I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. If you struggle mentally, it does not mean that you are ill. It is psychiatry’s view of what mental problems are and how they arise which in itself is pathological. The author, Erik Rudi.
Mad in America
AUGUST 10, 2024
It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. 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.
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