Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

Some neuroscientists argue that we should rather focus our efforts on the upstream social and structural factors, such as trauma and inequity , that create the conditions for mental health concerns to arise. A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ”

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Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

This short story about a train trip shows how the many symptoms of PTSD combine to have a devastating impact to one’s Sense of Self. Losing a large percent of memory of one’s past is the equivalent of losing a large percent of one’s Sense of Self, identity, personality, etc. April 2009 – I had Severe PTSD.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

I never thought my wife was “delusional” even after I became aware of the word’s popular use, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t at times struggle with some of the things various parts of my wife believed as they left their forced isolation and began to live outside with me. I’ve repeatedly seen this with my wife.

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Zencare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Liz definitely would have averted the whole thing with more honest and direct communication of her needs to Derek, but I think she does the right thing here by coming clean to her husband, even though its a hard conversation to have. Note that this blog post is full of spoilers youve been warned! We left off at Episode 6: In a Lonely Place.

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How Psychiatry Works

JANUARY 14, 2025

The clarity I want to share here is about how we relate simultaneously to our conscious client and to a nonconscious, inner self. Inner selves The first part of the chapter opens with three visions of the inner self, and each turns out to be a different way of looking at the same thing. They are very different.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.

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