Mad in America
MARCH 27, 2024
Stopping antipsychotic drugs is associated with better outcomes for people diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to a new study. In the long run, those who stopped taking antipsychotics had better social functioning and quality of life and were more likely to be employed than those who continued the drugs. The study was a meta-analysis of short-term, medium-term, and long-term trials.
Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR)
MARCH 29, 2024
Nancy Adler, PhD Dr. Adler, the visionary who co-authored the foundational textbook of health psychology in 1979 and dedicated her life to understanding the profound link between social factors and health, died peacefully at her home on January 4, 2024, at the age of 77. "Nancy Adler is one of the most impactful psychological researchers of our era," said Elissa Epel, PhD, professor and vice chair for adult psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and co-director of the
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Psychiatry Advisor
MARCH 26, 2024
Researchers evaluated whether tobacco product use was associated with an increased risk for suicidality among children, using Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data. The post Increased Risk for Suicide Attempts Among Children Who Use Tobacco Products appeared first on Psychiatry Advisor.
The Anxiety Guy
MARCH 25, 2024
In today’s episode of Anxiety Guy, I’m excited to share a straightforward change in perspective that can transform your anxiety. It’s frequently the correct mindset that fosters significant healing from anxiety and the actionable steps necessary for addressing anxiety as it arises. Hope you enjoy it! In the fast-paced world we live in, anxiety has become increasingly prevalent, and its grip on our minds can be paralyzing.
Dr. Christianheim Preventative Mental Health
MARCH 22, 2024
Courage means of the heart. It is not something you are born with, it is something you learn and practice. Unfortunately, many people think courage means not feeling fear even in the face of danger. Then the rest of us feel judged and defeated because no-one can do this. No-one. Heres the bottom line of these three posts on courage: you practice courage while you feel the fear.
Solara Mental Health
MARCH 20, 2024
War flashbacks are a distressing symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that can have a significant impact on the lives of those who experience them. Understanding PTSD and war flashbacks is crucial in learning how to manage and cope with this condition effectively. Understanding PTSD and War Flashbacks Defining Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychological disorder that can occur after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event.
Mad in America
MARCH 28, 2024
W hile going through a divorce in 2012, award-winning documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman from London was prescribed escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro, from Lundbeck). This is a depression pill, but Katinka was not depressed, only distressed, with sleepless nights, when she needed to leave the family home after a 12-year marriage. The pill nearly killed her and took her away from her kids, which Katinka has described in her book, “ The pill that steals lives.
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Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR)
MARCH 13, 2024
Marwah Abdalla , Columbia University Irving Medical Center Jonathan Daniel Agley , Indiana University Bloomington - School of Public Health Sara J. Czaja , Weill Cornell Medicine Shira Ilana Dunsiger , Brown University School of Public Health Carolyn J. Heckman , Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Julianne Holt-Lunstad , Brigham Young University Michael A.
World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
MARCH 13, 2024
World Psychiatric Association announces a Travel Award for the winner of its 2024 Medical Student Essay Competition to attend the 24th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry in Mexico City, Mexico The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) has once again launched its much-anticipated Medical Student Essay Competition , a WPA Presidential initiative with the support of the United Nations Secretariat Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development Goals.
Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers
MARCH 11, 2024
Nestled between the vineyards of the Santa Ynez mountains and the glittering Pacific Ocean is the city of Santa Barbara. Known as the American Riviera, its not just a tourist draw. College students, snowbirds, and locals all enjoy the vacation vibe of this city that feels like a town. Given the serene landscape, it makes sense that Sanctuary Centers, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing mental illness, would situate itself here.
Lawyers with Depression
MARCH 11, 2024
Dr. Carrie Barron is a board-certified psychiatrist on the Columbia College of Physicians an Surgeons clinical faculty who also has a private practice in New York City. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, won several academic awards, and presented original works related to creativity and self-expression at national meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2024
O n 3 August 2023, I wrote to the editors of two medical journals and called for retraction of three fraudulent reports of placebo-controlled trials of depression drugs in children and adolescents. Ten people who lost a child or spouse to suicide as a direct consequence of being prescribed an antidepressant drug for a non-psychiatric condition were co-signatories.
International Society for Interpersonal Psychother
MARCH 14, 2024
The second day of the conference has offered crucial and intriguing themes. The morning featured discussions on how IPC is implemented in various parts of the world, including the development of an app called Engage. Speaking of apps, a workshop on “IPT in the digital world” was conducted, where we reflected on the opportunities presented by social media and how we, in IPT, observe their impact on individuals’ lives.
Harmony United Psychiatric Care
MARCH 7, 2024
The Impact of Family Engagement on Children’s Mental Health The Link Between Parental Partnerships and Mental Health The Role of Parental Support in Mitigating Negative Impacts The Long-Term Effects of Multiple Parental Partnerships on Children’s Emotional Development Increased Risk of Depression and Anxiety Impact on Social Relationships Increased Risk of Mental Trauma The Importance of […]
World Psychiatric Association (WPA)
MARCH 7, 2024
The 30th of March marks an important day on the global calendar World Bipolar Day (WBD). This initiative was born out of a council meeting of the Asian Network of Bipolar Disorder (ANBD) in 2013, at which Prof. Pichet Udomratn proposed a date to bring worldwide attention to bipolar disorder. The choice of March 30th is significant as it coincides with the birthday of the renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh, believed to have suffered from bipolar disorder.
Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (BHCOE)
MARCH 28, 2024
The Behavioral Health Center of Excellence is pleased to announce the appointment of Anya Perea to the role of Chief Executive Officer.
Now Psych
MARCH 25, 2024
Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. People with BPD often experience intense mood swings, difficulty regulating emotions, and make impulsive choices, which can lead to difficulties in relationships and self-destructive behaviors.
Mad in America
MARCH 20, 2024
O n the podcast this week we turn our attention to conflicts of interest (COIs) and new research from the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Mad in America has previously examined the problems with conflicts of interest in research but this time we extend that to look at the potential effect of COIs on diagnostic tools such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
International Society for Interpersonal Psychother
MARCH 13, 2024
The first day of the IPT conference has come to an end. The morning began with Heather Flynn welcoming everyone and introducing the conference with an opening speech. She expressed gratitude to John Markowitz for his significant contributions over the years. Benjamin Hankin then shared about him and his team’s important research, in memory of Nancy Groth, on expectant mothers and their efforts to prevent mental health issues in both parents and children.
Mad in America
MARCH 2, 2024
Editor’s Note: This interview of Anniek Lemmens by Mad in the Netherlands’ Monique Timmermans first appeared on Mad in the Netherlands on February 24, 2024. I‘m happy to see Anniek, 40 years old, again. She looks more fragile than she did last spring, and I can see that she is suffering. When I hug her, I can feel our nervous systems connect with a sigh of relief.
Mad in America
MARCH 20, 2024
Dr. Christy Huff was a cardiologist who experienced a benzodiazepine injury first-hand after taking prescribed Xanax for just three weeks in 2015. She had to slowly taper using Valium and experienced a disabling withdrawal over three years, leading her to realize the serious risks and harms of these drugs and the danger of the benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome.
Mad in America
MARCH 6, 2024
S wapnil Gupta is an Associate Professor and Medical Director of Ambulatory Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. She was trained as a psychiatrist in India and the United States, at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Yale University, and PGI Chandigarh in India. She is known for her work on deprescribing from and discontinuation of psychiatric drugs.
Mad in America
MARCH 27, 2024
“T he inheritance of intelligence is probably the most controversial topic in the whole of science,” wrote geneticist Adam Rutherford, “and when it is combined with the study of population differences, evolution, and race, there we have the prospect of a perfect storm.” This September will mark 30 years since the appearance of a widely publicized and controversial entrance into the storm: The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.
Mad in America
MARCH 30, 2024
T his is a story of recovery and partnership between a mother and son and their journey to healing. It begins, as such stories do, with common human struggles. Like many who endure mental health downfalls, Matt’s life was consumed by a perfect storm of circumstances including relationship stress, a partner’s decline in health, and caring for a young neurodivergent child — all of which, combined with his own health ailments on top of being the sole financial provider, exacerbated his overwhelm,
Mad in America
MARCH 11, 2024
Editor’s Note: This piece by Charlotte Beale first appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. O n 10 March, the Mail on Sunday put Charles Spencer’s story about being sexually abused at boarding school on its front page. Spencer is the brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Inside the paper were extracts from Spencer’s book, A Very Private School , about his time at Maidwell Hall, where he boarded from eight to 13.
Mad in America
MARCH 12, 2024
E veryone is challenged by the intensity, frequency, and distortedness of their emotion. Some people are more challenged than others. But no matter how problematic it is, emotion is a normal part of being a person. Somewhere in the last few decades, intense emotionality has gone from being a naturally difficult part of you to an unfortunate pathology in you.
Mad in America
MARCH 19, 2024
G rowing up in a dysfunctional family where my father was not available most of the time and, when he was available, he did not take full responsibility, made me feel inferior to my classmates in school. I also experienced a lot of emotional abuse as a child from my mother who was taking responsibility but could not offer me emotional support because she was overwhelmed.
Mad in America
MARCH 23, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in Brasil. The author, Mariana Witte Lins, is a psychiatric survivor and moderator of an online peer support group for women in the process of withdrawing from psychiatric drugs. I spent years of my life thinking that mental disorders were illnesses like any other, and that this idea was unquestionable by anyone from a scientific point of view.
Mad in America
MARCH 15, 2024
A crime that shocked a nation: In sleepy Raurimu, a tiny settlement in New Zealand’s central North Island, the Saturday morning peace was shattered on the 8 th of February, 1997 when a young man from Wellington turned a shotgun onto a group of people staying at his family’s ski and hunting lodge. Six people died that morning and another four were seriously wounded.
Mad in America
MARCH 29, 2024
T here are books that change your life… drastically, whether you want to or not. I certainly had that experience and it made me question ‘everything.’ I was a holistic psychiatrist and wanted to offer the best services to my clients, but this book made me realize that in spite of, or because of my best intentions and efforts, I was keeping my clients trapped in the client role.
Mad in America
MARCH 4, 2024
From Sociology Lens Insights : “In recent decades, we have too often passed the buck of social problems to children who lack the power to say no to stigmatizing psychiatric labels. Laura Batstra and Ernst Thoutenhoofd call for reflection on these non-evidence-based, ineffective and sometimes even harmful practices. The instability of labels Recently, a well-designed cohort study reported that nearly 40% of 213 toddlers classified with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) no longer met the c
Mad in America
MARCH 1, 2024
The following is the third excerpt adapted from Healing Companions , a book by the MIA author Sam Ruck (his pen name) that describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her “alters.” His earlier installments addressed the problems with “delusions” and “paranoia” and “psychosis.” T he summer after my wife started counseling sessions, she began to hear voices.
Mad in America
MARCH 7, 2024
Editor’s note from Robert Whitaker: We recently noticed on X/Twitter the posting of an article, published in Lancet Psychiatry, that was pitched as a review of the literature regarding the effectiveness of “alternative psychosocial interventions for people with acute, non-affective psychosis?” The authors concluded that while there was abundant evidence from RCTs that antipsychotics are effective in treating “acute psychosis and reducing relapse,” and there was a much “smaller evidence bas
Mad in America
MARCH 9, 2024
From Shaun Attwood : Psychiatrist Bob Johnson, along with his wife Sue Johnson, speaks about his years working in the UK’s prison for its most violent offenders, and how, rather than give his forensic patients drugs, he led them into telling of their traumatic histories, which ultimately ‘cured’ them, allowing them to give up their need for violence.
Mad in America
MARCH 8, 2024
From ABC7/WXYZ Detroit : “‘I’ll never forget it. I’ll never get over it.’ That’s how Bri Jackson describes her stay inside a local psychiatric hospital – a stay Bri says never should have happened. ‘If you would have told me that something like that would happen, I would find it so hard to believe in the United States of America,’ said another patient, who asked for anonymity, about their stay in the same psych ward.
Mad in America
MARCH 9, 2024
Editor’s note: This article by Gaurav Datta was first published on Mad in South Asia. Some of the most marginalized and stigmatized people in a community are those with psychiatric diagnoses and those who are HIV positive. What remains common about these two groups are how they are portrayed through a “humanitarian gaze” as helpless, burdensome, and unable to contribute meaningfully—their lives are often reduced to how much they cost (Global Burden of Disease).
Mad in America
MARCH 7, 2024
From BristolLive : “A prominent psychiatrist who opened the UK’s first clinic using ketamine to treat patients here in Bristol has been suspended for 12 months after having a sexual relationship with a former private patient who has since died [by suicide]. Dr Benjamin Sessa’s fitness to practice was found to be impaired by a tribunal.
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