Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Bottom Line DSM is a social construction, based on ‘pragmatism’ much more so than science. Use DSM administratively, not for best clinical practice.” ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Why the DSM Is Mostly False | Nassir Ghaemi, MD appeared first on Mad In America.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

The psychiatric diagnosis is a medical theoretical construct with limited epistemic validity. They come from knowledge acquired through education and experience, personal aptitude, relational skills and a genuine desire to contribute constructively to the individual. We must start taking people’s own experiences seriously.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt cofounded the Heterodox Academy , whose mission, by welcoming both liberals and conservatives, is to advance open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement across higher education.

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Critical Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In fact a psychiatric diagnosis is an unobservable, hypothetical construct. The problem is that it is too easy to assume a diagnostic concept is an entity of some kind, which then acts as a justification for treatment. It is more an idealised description of those aspects of psychiatric presentation that are of interest.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2024

When tapering off a psychiatric drug, you need realistic information, acknowledgement of the severity of the experience, constructive advice, and hope. Constructive and helpful expertise is the rarest and most valuable commodity when tapering a psychiatric drug.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As I was saying, I have an education background in Aerospace Engineering and Construction Management. I couldn’t word-find, and would lose track of what I had just been talking about, trying to think of a word as simple as “coffee.” I clean houses now and do senior caregiving. New memories still don’t stick all that well.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

This is the idea behind psychotherapy: to provide a safe setting in which those issues can be resolved in a new and constructive manner. These new ways of being should, ideally, translate to other areas of one’s life and help them to relate to the world more constructively.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2024

In terms of helping, a more constructive perspective is to look at all the activities of the human mind in response to life’s events. In the book, Seikkula emphasizes, through its many twists and turns, that the most difficult mental health problems should be seen as an active activity of the mind in insurmountable stressful situations.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Most in the taskforce also agreed that the criteria for the ADHD construct to be used are highly subjective and contextually situated and there is a risk of pathologizing normal (or often functional) behavior.

Genetics and mental health 122

Genetics and mental health Healthcare Bipolar disorder Aging and mental health 122

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Economic systems are portrayed as immutable laws of nature, obscuring the fact that they are human constructs. Economic systems are portrayed as natural laws, rather than human constructs that could be reimagined. Capitalism, for instance, is often defended as the pinnacle of human progress, despite its deep flaws.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The usefulness of this construct is almost never questioned by the mainstream, taken as fact because “experts” deem it so. According to psychiatrists, the suicidal person is suffering from a sickness of the mind: their “mental illness” is making them a threat to themselves! Pesky “mental illness.”

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Mad in America

MARCH 23, 2024

When we understand that our issues are not caused by an illness, we open the door to construct new meanings. What unites survivors is the search to rethink what was placed on them by psychiatry, and in many cases, the experience of a process of demedicalizing their own suffering, through critical reflection on their own history.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Foucault believed this concept is faulty because it ignores its cultural background—namely, the construction of an institutionalized education system. “If He then references the Freudian concept of “infantile regression” (the tendency for the madman to resume childlike behavior).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Ignored by establishment psychiatry, many renowned thinkers have questioned the entire wheel of current consensus reality, concluding that it is an unnatural construction that has dehumanized us. Many of these prominent thinkers—such as Erich Fromm, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lewis Mumford, Ivan Illich, and E.F.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Yet rather than engage with this, the authors strategically construct arguments as though they are unaware of any such issue. It is unlikely that evidence of harm from psychiatric treatments or financial conflicts of interest among psychiatric researchers are unknown to the letter authors.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Conversely, compromised or non-existent personal boundaries are also [de]constructed early in life, due to abuses, neglect, lack of role-modelling, or inappropriate caregiving styles and techniques of all kinds. ‘The word boundaries is widely used in psychology and somatic psychotherapy, but its meaning is often unclear.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Psychiatry’s aura of superiority may be what enabled it to convince people that mental illnesses are real physical illnesses, even though they’re opposites: First psychiatry constructed a fantasy about emotional distress being a medically-treatable disease caused by a chemical imbalance or brain anomaly.Then it turned it into a reality (..)

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2024

We hope to learn together from this pilot project and use what we have learned to keep constructing more multifamily groups to counter the confusion, blame, shame and loneliness that interferes with the healing power of hope.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

By blurring the lines between the literal and figurative, battlefield metaphors do more than explain similarities, they also construct them. As Dhruv Khullar observes, terms like ‘fighting’ or ‘battling’ tend to create a perception of health as adversarial, setting a confrontational tone.

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Resilience and coping Healthcare 122

Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

All ten cells that outlined the U-shaped corridor were constructed out of white-painted cinder block, plexiglass, and bolts. He leaned over me, pushed the door forward, and told me to go to the desk that was straight ahead. The unit resembled a detention center.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Emotional regulation is not about suppressing feelings; its about understanding them, responding thoughtfully, and using them constructively. Instead, focus on constructive coping strategies such as: Physical Activity: Exercise releases endorphins, which improve mood and reduce stress.

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Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Sounds like I am doing a Jordan Peterson here, but the whole exercise is about making small, consistent and constructive changes that will become regular habits. These habits above are achievable habits, and will create a constructive mindset. Make your bed, clean your kitchen, your room, and your house every day.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

They are making effort s to be ready to help when the scale of the fallout from this global, decades-long experiment in medicating the human condition—under the intense stressors of the economic and technological cultures we have constructed, with drugs we don’t understand—becomes clear.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 4, 2025

In his new bookShift: How to Manage Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You, he aims to equip us all with a set of tools that will help us to navigate our ups and downs more constructively.

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Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

DECEMBER 5, 2023

An innovative mixed-use project that will bring 34 units of affordable housing along with on-site health-care services to downtown Santa Barbara is set to begin construction after several years in the planning stages.

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Zencare

JANUARY 17, 2025

Healing Romantic Relationships: In romantic relationships, an unsent letter can provide a constructive outlet for unresolved emotions, such as heartbreak, jealousy, or unspoken love. While confronting these feelings can be challenging, it is also a powerful way to release them in a controlled and constructive manner.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Instead of investing in harmful spyware technology, school administrators, parents, and guardians should work together to create safe spaces for learning and foster constructive relationships between students.

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Mad in America

JULY 29, 2024

For them, it’s something intrinsic to a person waiting to be discovered and identified, not a social construct created by a committee of psychiatrists. Have the cultural constructs of 21 st century Western neoliberal society happened upon a universal truth about what it means to be human?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2024

This process led me many years later to recognize that in my poetics metaphors are not constructed but are seen or heard, as visions or voices. This is how I understood that listening to the subtexts of a scene is listening to what the characters do not say, just as recognizing a vision is discovering what they do not show.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. Laboratory studies provided the scientific basis for the development of a vaccine. Basic biological research originating in James Watson and Francis Crick’s laboratory led to the discovery of DNA. Proteins keep us alive.

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Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Anxiety disorders Construction 145

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Psychology has become a giant, its terms and constructs now part of the cultural lexicon, and yet it is one with clay feet. Psychology has greatly broadened its scope since Nietzsche’s day and yet his implied criticism is one the discipline is still wrestling with.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The weight of personal accountability for my own grief toppled the facade of “perfect wife and mother,” and collapsed the assumed-identity of Martyr Mom I’d constructed. When we divorced, I was left without a banner of blame to march under.

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Hospitality Construction 114

Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If we construct elaborate systems of defenses to buffer us from reality, this is only testimony to the raw, tender quality of the open mind and heart underlying them. If we can sharpen our awareness, then we can catch ourselves in the act of constructing these stories and so begin to see through them.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is tempting to suggest that the pharmaceutical industry and others that feed off their profits have been on to this for some time, but they exploit it as marketing rather than open, constructive research. The post Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being appeared first on Mad In America.

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Now Psych

APRIL 23, 2024

Magnetic Building and Construction Sets : Enhances creativity and engineering skills. Math Manipulative Set : Includes various tools for hands-on math learning. Geography Puzzle : Teaches world geography in a fun and interactive way. Storytelling Cards : Sparks imagination and improves verbal skills.

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Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2024

Spencer writes: ‘I am certain that some things died for me between my eighth and 13th birthdays…Innocence, trust, joy – all were trampled on and diminished in that outdated, snobbish, vicious little world that English high society constructed and endorsed, handed over to the care of people who could be very dangerous indeed.’

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