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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

Mad in America

I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails.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.

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When the Help Becomes Part of the Problem

Mad in America

I was to be escorted to one of the hospitals surrounding the university by a young police officer. Upon reaching the hospital, I was greeted by two desk clerks. I was asked for my ID, insurance, and other things that hospital staff typically ask of a patient. That was the beginning of the beginning. I’ll call him Carlos.

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Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients: Interview with Psychiatrist Swapnil Gupta

Mad in America

S wapnil Gupta is an Associate Professor and Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. She is also a part of the editorial board of the Community Mental Health Journal. Unfortunately, Seroquel is prescribed just for sleep on many occasions. That’s an egregious thing to do.

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TV Series "Shrinking" S2 — Is Therapy Really Like This? (Part 1)

Zencare

As for Alice, I never understood the panic attack to sleep with your best friends summer fling pipeline, but man is it sticky I hope Alice can deal with the consequences that will come along with this. But on a mental health note, I want to continue my frustrations with Seans father. Progress requires work, and work isnt easy.

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

Mad in America

Many a Seeker arrives having spent nights drinking and watching porn, sleeping during the day and unable to work or read. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal. In our nine years, three times a Seeker has requested the hospital to feel safe from themselves and from hurting others.

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Sexual Sanism: Why Anti-Queer Rhetoric Is a Threat to the Mad, Too

Mad in America

S exual sanism permeates the ways our culture talks about and treats the mentally ill, queer people, and, more broadly, anyone who relates or reacts inappropriately to the world and people around them. Sexual sanism is a label Ive used to describe the ways in which sexuality and sanism are co-constructed in our society.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.