Mad in America

JUNE 28, 2024

She also revealed that a neighbor had to take us to the hospital. I believed my alcoholism was genetic and treated it as a spiritual malady. The long-term effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are not limited to mental health problems, not by a long shot. She doesn’t remember why Dad didn’t go.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) , reported that among American adults, serious suicidal thoughts occurred in 6.6%

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. He sets out to study the genetics of schizophrenia, through twins.

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