Mad in America

OCTOBER 28, 2023

O n September 9, Mad in America set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract its 2006 article that told of a 67% remission rate in the STAR*D trial. The case for doing so was straightforward: In August, Ed Pigott and colleagues, having obtained patient-level data through the “Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials” initiative, published a paper in BMJ Open that told of how the remission rate in that trial was actually 35%.

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Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (BHCOE)

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Behavioral Health Center of Excellence (BHCOE) is proud to announce an exciting initiative in the field of education that is set to enhance the quality of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services provided in school settings. This specialized school accreditation program is tailored to meet the unique needs of ABA services in educational environments.

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Dr. Deb

OCTOBER 29, 2023

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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

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. In this blog, he discusses the failures of the publicly funded long-term studies, CATIE and STAR*D, and psychiatry’s fraudulent reporting of these results. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I n the current debates about antidepressant withdrawal, it seems there are two sides—and no middle. On one side there’s psychiatry, particularly academic psychiatry, minimizing the problem. And on the other, psychologists and Mad in America authors and readers, declaring a near emergency. Every new essay prompts yet more objections from the other camp.

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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.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

From Greater Good Magazine : “Sensitivity can come in different flavors, argue [Jenn Granneman and Andre Solo, authors of the new book Sensitive : The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World ]. It can mean having strong emotions—‘crying for joy, bursting with warmth, wilting from critique’—or having physical sensitivities to temperature, odors, or sounds (or all of the above).

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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

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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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

You never wanted to be the girl who cried wolf. How selfish it is to tell someone about the beast you hold inside when you rarely fear devourment. It stalks and growls but you pay it no mind, surely if it were a true threat it would have consumed you by now. You know you’re tempting its nature by spilling red from your carelessly curated yet carefully concealed lines.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I’m right there with you so, let’s talk, in a way. We can start by talking to the air, since you and I can’t be here or there. It’s our usual way, having torn only what was once stunning, left to feel that we’ve been skipped of a high. We wake up grief to open inside, while it’s not easy, we’ve done it numerous times, transforming in crazy ways.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

And so Antilochus smote Echepolus, Thrusting a spear into his brain, the Trojan Gazing at the azure ether, then crashing Towards the dark; lunging at his foe, Diomedes Struck Phegeus, planting a lance into his heart, The white walls breaking, a crimson geyser in The rain; insensate burning, Menelaus downing Peisander with a thunderous blow, the lifeless Body crushed beneath the raging of the charger.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Dear Mum, Looks like the dizziness I was having and rainbow vision is something worse than “Silent Migraines”, I may have to have an operation. I’m scheduled for a biopsy in June so we won’t be coming to visit this year. Meghan will be disappointed for sure. But I’m sure she’ll find lots of fun things to do this summer, and Ian will definitely fly kites with her since he’s back into that hobby again.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Fogarty’s life changed when he discovered Daniel. Daniel had realized he would never be more than a so-so painter, but he discovered he had a skill for copying paintings. He soon was selling copies of famous paintings as copies: to spur sales, he copied in full view of the public through the large window which fronted on the street. One rainy afternoon as he was copying a Chagall, a welcome relief from Rubens, he became aware of someone watching him through the window.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In a new study, researchers found anhedonia, cognitive deficits, and impulsivity in rats born to mothers given fluoxetine (Prozac) during pregnancy or while breastfeeding. The findings were sex-dependent, with male rats exhibiting anhedonia and female rats exhibiting cognitive deficits and impulsivity (anhedonia is a term for the inability to feel pleasure or joy).

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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

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