Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

From The Independent : “Tens of thousands of sexual assaults and incidents have been reported in NHS -run mental health hospitals as a ‘national scandal ‘ of sexual abuse of patients on psychiatric wards can be revealed. Almost 20,000 reports of sexual incidents in the last five years have been made in more than half of NHS mental health trusts , according to exclusive data uncovered in a joint investigation and podcast by The Independent and Sky News.

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Mental Health America Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 30, 2024

[link] - NPR News: "Patients say keto diet helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2024

F or two and a half years, until last April, I worked as an occupational therapist in two public mental health inpatient units in Melbourne, Australia. During my work, I experienced a devastating process of disillusioning and moral injury, witnessing the mental health field’s harmful behaviours towards our clients. This experience brought me to the edge of madness, as well as many physical illnesses.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. T he one-size-fits-all autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, as configured in the Revised Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5-TR), is a clinical catastrophe. Well-meaning child practitioners who take the current DSM autism criteria at face value likely assume that the widely-used ASD diagnosis provides them with understanding of and insight into children’s dev

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Mad in America

JANUARY 30, 2024

I t is my contention that “trauma/addiction experts” and psychiatrists cause unnecessary harm to people who are suffering and feeling emotional pain by categorizing them, generalizing about their unique behaviours and by labeling certain types of behaviours as “addictions” and “mental illnesses”. Also, the validity and relevance of describing people’s behaviours in terms of their “mental health” is questionable as I believe that people suffer when they are mistreated and not loved, and it is a n

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Mad in America

JANUARY 27, 2024

T he results from the RADAR trial have been discussed in several comments and blogposts, and in our case, in a letter in Lancet Psychiatry calling for attention to the dignity of risk-taking. The RADAR trial, the largest study in the field to date, led by Professor Joanna Moncrieff, tested the hypothesis “…. that antipsychotic reduction would improve social functioning with only a small increase in relapse rate.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

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 addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

From Jay Reid Psychotherapy : “’In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.’ – George Orwell, 1984 I find in my therapy practice that there is nothing wrong with my clients except that they believe there is. People do not insist on a perception of reality that worsens quality of life out of stubbornness.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I keep seeing a black dog next to me. Will this chase me all my life? The dog, the needles, the pills, the razors, the knives? The weight like leaden boots of the pain I carry the empty bottles of alcohol my mother has consumed tied together with strips of brown paper bags trailing behind me like dead noisy prayer flags The cape of shame I wish I could use to make myself smaller will my life always be divided into before and after she turned from a helicopter into a monster?

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

Here is an interview I did with Dr. Tyger Latham, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in Washington, D.C. and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. George Washington University. What is depression? Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. According to the DSM , the manual used by psychiatrists and psychologists to diagnose depression, a person is diagnosed with depression if she/he experiences depressed mood, alon

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Mad in America

JANUARY 30, 2024

From Sky News : “Alexis Quinn entered psychiatric care after a family tragedy. The former British youth swimmer and mother could never have imagined that her three-day admission would turn into a more than three-year ordeal. Then undiagnosed with autism, Alexis descended to the darkest reaches of locked-in, psychiatric ‘care,’ making complaints of sexual assault, before plotting a daring escape overseas.

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