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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2023
A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance. The agenda of the launch event is here , and the full video here ).
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Anya Perea, MSW Appointed CEO of Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (BHCOE)
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
The Behavioral Health Center of Excellence is pleased to announce the appointment of Anya Perea to the role of Chief Executive Officer. A social worker by early education and practice, Pereas dedication to and passion for empowering individuals advancing the mental health industry spans decades. She's been an operational and clinical leader in several positions and brings a patient-centered approach to all her work.
NIH-sponsored ORBIT Institute: Developing Behavioral Treatments to Improve Health - Accepting Applications for 2024
Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR)
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
This course will be open to scientists with an interest in behavioral treatment development to improve health behaviors. While applied behavioral and social scientists are the focus, basic scientists and methods experts are encouraged to apply as well. Any post-graduate investigator (doctoral or terminal degree received) in the medical, behavioral, social, and statistical/methodology sciences who has a demonstrated, pre-existing interest in contributing to investigator teams in developing and te
Shrink Wrap Radio Podcast - Living with Depression
Dr. Deb
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Catch my interview with Dr. David Van Nuys on Shrink Rap Radio Podcast as we talk about my latest book, mental health, the power of psychotherapy and wellbeing.
One Wife’s Story of Her Husband’s Struggles with Depression in Law School
Lawyers with Depression
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. In this article, we explore the affect depression has on loved ones and their struggles to help. Katie has been married to her law student husband for almost four years. She has grown into a more compassionate and well-rounded Certified Health Education Specialist and Mental Health First Aid provider from her experiences with her husband’s mental health issues.
Get Started with NACCHO Behavioral Health 360
Credible Mind
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
In partnership with Sign Up Now NACCHO believes empowering communities to address behavioral health issues upstream, with a public health approach emphasizing early intervention strategies, is critical. We are excited to launch the Behavioral Health 360 partnership to help bring CredibleMinds digital self-care platform to communities, enabling our members to expand behavioral health access rapidly and effectively, while combatting the stigma often associated with mental health.
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National Autism Data Registry launched to Understand, Measure, and Improve Autism Treatment and Outcomes
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NOVEMBER 7, 2023
The Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (BHCOE), through its quality measurement innovations, is pleased to announce the launch of the National Autism Data Registry (NADR), an online outcomes tracking system and value-based care enablement platform for individuals with autism across the nation.
International Behavioural Trials Network Conference - Call for Abstracts
Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR)
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
A poster session complements the plenary sessions and workshops that make up the IBTN Conference. Poster abstracts will be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The IBTN Conference will be held from May 16 to 18, 2024, and is open to anyone registering to attend. The conference will include a poster session. Authors whose posters have been selected will be asked to accept and confirm their attendance at the conference (either virtually or in person).
International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day is 11/18/23
Dr. Deb
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
In 1999, Senator Harry Reid, a survivor of his fathers 1972 suicide, introduced a new resolution into the US Senate. With its passage, the US Congress designated the Saturday before Thanksgiving as National Survivors of Suicide Day - an awareness day that reaches out to thousands of people who have lost a loved one to suicide. National Survivors of Suicide Day has evolved into a global awareness day called International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day thanks to the American Foundation of Suicide P
Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: How to Produce Smaller Doses Than Those the Drug Companies Provide
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
S topping psychiatric drugs is often difficult. And in many cases, it is done far too quickly. Therefore, the patient may develop unbearable withdrawal symptoms, which the doctor often interprets erroneously as a relapse of the disease. It is important to know how a tapering process should be carried out. Unfortunately, very few doctors know that the binding curves of psychiatric drugs to brain receptors are hyperbolic in shape.
How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
T rauma is situational. The situation in which a human being is unable to wind down for a long time because it has been continuously subjected to aversive circumstances is likely to result in distress. There is a growing body of literature that supports this thesis today. Yet the biomedical concepts of mental distress still seem to prevail in the public discourse.
Madness and Method: Exploring the Realm of Unconventional Reasoning
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 4, 2023
W hat is madness? Is it merely a colloquial term for “mental illness,” one that is alternatively reviled and reclaimed? Is it merely the lack of reason? Or is madness a distinctive style of reasoning in its own right? Is it a distinctive mode of living and acting in the world, one with equal value to our exalted image of sanity? For that matter, what is sanity?
My Chronic Illness Was Misdiagnosed as ‘Mental Illness’
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
I was in the hospital with an undiagnosable physical illness that presented with multiple, some would say peculiar, symptoms. After test results revealed nothing, I was handed over to the head psychiatrist who noted in my files that I was delusional, had factitious disorder, somatic symptom disorder, psychosis due to psychotic delusions, was a danger to myself, very mentally ill, and was not aware of my mental illness; and over 20 psychiatrists at this teaching hospital simply agreed with these
Letting Go of Lithium
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that really isn’t you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.” —Paulo Coelho I never wanted to take psych drugs. I took them because I was desperate to get out of pain, but not the kind of pain most people associate with psych meds.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Editor’s Note: Over the past several months, Mad in America has published a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. In this last blog in the series, he presents his concluding thoughts and suggestions for the future of psychiatry. All chapters have been archived here. Final words about a specialty in ruins and what to do about it A mong the authors of the five textbooks count some of the most prominent professors of psychiatry in Denmark.
Medication-free Ward in Tromsø, Norway May Soon Close
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
T his past spring, the Hurdalsjøen Recovery Center in Norway, a private hospital that offered medication-free care to Norwegian psychiatric patients, had to close due to a governmental decision to stop public funding for private enterprises. Now, the medication free-ward in Åsgård Hospital in Tromsø is threatened with closure. This 6-bed ward had been the most visible example—perhaps anywhere in the Western World today—of inpatient treatment for psychotic and bipolar patients that promoted taper
The Making of a ‘Madness’ That Hides Our Monsters: An Interview with Audrey Clare Farley
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
A udrey Clare Farley is a writer, editor, and scholar of 20th-century American culture with a special interest in science and religion. She earned a PhD in English literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. She now teaches a course on U.S. history at Mount St. Mary’s University. Her first book, The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt , tells the story of a 1930s millionairess whose mother secretly sterilized her to deprive her of the fami
Why the DSM Is Mostly False | Nassir Ghaemi, MD
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
From Psychiatry Letter : “A decade ago, the fifth revision of DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) was published by the American Psychiatric Association. This diagnostic system has been called the ‘Bible’ of psychiatry. The metaphor suggests some cultural realities. It tends to be worshipped; some view it as the literal truth; it can inspire, but it can be used to suppress dissent.
I Secret Shopped #988 and Three Cop Cars Showed Up Outside My House
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
#988 first appeared in a report to Congress in August 2019 wherein Federal Communications Commission (FCC) staff proposed it as a nationwide, easy-to-remember calling code for people who were suicidal or otherwise in emotional distress. Approximately one year later in July 2020, the FCC adopted rules to begin establishing #988, and in October of the same year, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act was signed into law.
Only One of Five Key Xanax Trials Deemed Positive by F.D.A.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
In a new study, researchers found that four of the five original studies on the effectiveness of alprazolam (Xanax) found it to be no better than placebo. Two of the negative studies remain unpublished, while two more were spun to appear positive in publication despite the drug’s failure to beat the placebo. Only one of the five studies considered by the FDA in approving the drug actually showed a positive result.
The Drug Taper Paradox
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
M y wife J.A. was on the couch in the living room crying and writhing in agony. It was the late summer or early fall of 2014 and I had no idea what to do. I called her then-psychiatrist and explained that I was worried for her safety. “How many clonazepam do you have?” he asked me. J.A. had been taking a 1 mg tablet of the benzodiazepine every night at bedtime for sleep.
The Challenge of Presenting Antidepressant Risks and Benefits
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
I n the first essay of this three-part series, I noted that current estimates of the incidence of antidepressant withdrawal range from 1% to 50%; and that patients’ beliefs and hopes, and the availability of alternative treatments, influence how they hear explanations of antidepressant risk. Now let’s think about where and when patients hear those explanations.
These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
From The Atlantic : “You have to admit, it seemed like a great way to help anxious and depressed teens. Researchers in Australia assigned more than 1,000 young teenagers to one of two classes: either a typical middle-school health class or one that taught a version of a mental-health treatment called dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT. After eight weeks, the researchers planned to measure whether the DBT teens’ mental health had improved.
Psychiatry, Violence, and the State: California’s Systematic Failure of Its Unhoused Population
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
U pon the catastrophic failure of its economic policies, California has decided to systematically restrain, incarcerate, forcibly strip, and drug its now sizable unhoused population. Rent control , out of control zoning laws , and other red tape have plagued California’s housing economy for years, limiting housing supply despite high demand. The most vulnerable citizens have been pushed onto the streets, unable to find long-term housing options where they feel safe.
Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
I sat down to write this article with the experience of severe akathisia fresh in my mind. For the first time in over a year, I awoke to it coursing through my body: a familiar, paralyzing anxiety accompanied by feelings of terror. After having akathisia for over 25 years, it is arguably more familiar to me than states of peace, so one would think I would know what it was immediately.
Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he introduces the book. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. I n this preface I would like to explain briefly where I am coming from in my criticism of much of U.S. healthcare, primarily “everyday” healthcare.
Understanding the Medical Industry to Protect Yourself
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
From The Real Truth About Health : “Join us for an eye-opening discussion with Mary J. Ruwart, Ph.D., Robert Whitaker, and John Abramson, M.D. as they uncover the intricate dynamics of the Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry. They delve into institutional corruption, misinformation, the shift from prevention to treatment, and the urgent need for healthcare reform.
Injured, Not Broken: Why It’s So Hard to Know You Have CPTSD
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
From Brickel & Associates, LLC : “When a child experiences neglect, anxiety, or danger repeatedly in a close relationship, that child often grows up with a sense that they are not okay. Psychology has a name for the longterm, consistent type of trauma that leaves a person feeling insecure, overwhelmed, and unsafe in the world: complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or CPTSD.
Pigs in the Hospital: The Collapse of Venezuela’s Mental Health System
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
I n preparation for a course on clinical community psychology at my home university in Caracas, Venezuela, I stumbled upon a tweet from an anonymous student complaining about a family of pigs that had occupied the psychiatric hospitalization ward where he was supposed to develop his clinical training. The Tweet seemed preposterous, until you consider the gravity of the deterioration of the public health system and that the Tweet was accompanied by pictures and a video of a group of pigs roaming
What Can Psychedelic Science Teach About Psychosis?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
From Aeon : “‘A sense of special significance began to invest everything in the room; objects which I would normally accept as just being there began to assume some strange importance.’ ‘I became interested in a wide assortment of people, events, places, and ideas which normally would make no impression on me. Not knowing that I was ill, I made no attempt to understand what was happening, but felt that there was some overwhelming significance in all this …’ The first of these quotations
How Literature Teaches Compassion Over Condescension
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
From Psychology Today : “In his recent writing on trauma, the Irish philosopher Richard Kearney speaks of the significance of ‘wounded healers,’ those capable of healing others because they themselves carry similar wounds. The examples Kearney uses to illustrate this point – Odysseus, Oedipus, Jacob, Christ – come to us by way of literature.
Don’t Give Symptom-Free People Alzheimer’s Drugs
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
From The Hastings Center : “A large government-funded study of solanezumab , an experimental Alzheimer’s drug that targets amyloid in the brain, has found no benefit in people with normal cognitive function who have elevated amyloid levels. The results of this long-term, definitive, randomized controlled trial should stay the alarming enthusiasts who have advocated drugging perfectly normal people who have abnormal amyloid levels.
Why Do Only Some People Experience Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
W hy do some people experience severe withdrawal symptoms when stopping antidepressants, while others have few symptoms and some have none? Who are these “severe” people? Can we identify them before they start an antidepressant? With so much debate and discussion about “how many” (including the previous two essays in this series), it’s surprising that so little has been written about “why some and not others?
Personal Boundaries and Their Violations
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
From Dr. Gary Sharpe/Out-Thinking Parkinson’s : “The running theme of many of my articles presents knowledge of our Nervous System, and how it responds under fear and stress, as a vital lens and toolkit towards not only understanding ourselves, and our suffering, but also for understanding the current problems in our society. However, there is so much to say about the topic which we seek to cover here, on the themes of boundaries, violations, abuse, and human suffering vs flourishing
Our Millions Years-Old Embodied Wisdom: Kinship and the Indigenous Worldview
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
From Kindred Media : “Most philosophical positions are rooted in Western enlightenment assumptions of human superiority to and separation from nature, the notion of human cultural progress, and individualism—all part of what anthropologist Marshall Sahlins called the ‘Western illusion of human nature.’ Virtually all prior and contemporaneous cultures had a different orientation, one of human interconnectedness and partnership with the biocommunity and a cyclical panpsychism.
Most People Who’ve Used the 988 Crisis Line Say They Wouldn’t Turn to It Again
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
From CNN : “People with severe psychological distress were more likely than others to have heard of 988 and to have used the lifeline, according to research published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open. But overall, only a quarter of people said they would be very likely turn to 988 in the future if they or a loved one were experiencing a mental health crisis or suicidality – and less than a third of people with severe psychological distress who had already tried the lifeline were very likely t
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