Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Psychosocially focused interventions may foster better engagement.

Early intervention 126

Early intervention Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 126

Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

As a writer, educator, and scholar, Jazmine works at the intersection of mad studies, critical psychology, and neuroscience. Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people.

Trauma and the brain 126

Trauma and the brain Mind-body connection Nonprofits Education 126

Lightwork

MARCH 6, 2025

The pathologization of female behavior became a means of social control, discouraging women from seeking education, pursuing careers, or asserting their independence. The connection between advocating for women’s rights and raising awareness about mental health became clear through the stories of influential suffragettes.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Self-awareness Bipolar disorder Breathing techniques 52

Lightwork

JANUARY 23, 2025

These practical strategies will give you the skills to: Process complex emotions Maintain stability during uncertainty Build stronger support networks Create sustainable self-care practices Let’s take a look at these tools that can turn difficult transitions into opportunities for growth and self-discovery.

Resilience and coping 52

Resilience and coping Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 52

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Patients often find such a level of self-disclosure about the therapist’s problems burdensome and distracting, and I immediately felt less confidence in her ability to help. And too often he retreated to superficial, self-help maxims—“there is no such thing as perfect”—a “look on the bright side” attitude that trivialized my concerns.

Insurance 144

Insurance Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 144

Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, the creation of a “Prozac Nation” might not have been successful without the help of the NIMH, which launched an “educational campaign” at that time designed to change the public’s understanding of depression. The drug was marketed as an antidote to a disease.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 145

Neurotransmitters and mental health Hospitality Education Self-awareness 145

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The inventory itself consists of 24 self-competed questions and can be viewed here. For example, the severe illnesses I have experienced were all most likely related to inflammatory signaling and the well documented effects of some of those molecules like cytokines. Many of the items (eg. Do you often feel miserable or depressed?)

Self-awareness 52

Self-awareness Hospitality Education 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The current approach to suicide prevention and supporting people in distress in Australia is a system of failure: the current approach is dominated by influential organisations and self-anointed mental health experts who work aggressively to perpetuate an unhelpful over-medicalised approach to distress.

Aging and mental health 142

Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 142

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It gives us a way to evaluate success and failure, a structure for self-esteem. At the core of everything is the inescapable awareness that we are going to die, and that it could happen at any moment. Culture provides the framework for these goals, the values by which we measure ourselves and others. From fulfillment.

Genetics and mental health 142

Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Mental health advocacy 142

Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. In this document, delivered to the Chief Coroner of Ontario, they stressed the need for the government to alter the law on the availability of recreational firearms. Those endeavours became Bay St.

Self-awareness 106

Self-awareness Technology Hospitality Education 106

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm. Third: It feeds into the epidemic of self-diagnosis raging across the internet, particularly among teenage girls, and particularly on TikTok with its “sick-role subculture.”

Aging and mental health 137

Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 137

Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

Those with a “history of treatment nonadherence” who have had two hospitalizations, even voluntarily, within three years; or have self-harmed or attempted self-harm; or attempted suicide or an act of harm to others; or have made credible threats of harm to others during a three-year “lookback” period, would be deemed eligible for the program. .”

Poverty and mental health 133

Poverty and mental health Legal Self-awareness Nonprofits 133