Mad in America

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Editor’s note: This is a copy of a letter that Ed Pigott and Jay Amsterdam sent to Ned Kalin, M.D., editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry. Ned H. Kalin, M.D. Editor-in-Chief The American Journal of Psychiatry Dear Dr. Kalin, Dr. Jay Amsterdam and I are writing this Open Letter to call for the retraction of the five STAR*D articles published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) because the main findings of these articles are not accurate. 1-5 We are the primary invest

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Critical Psychiatry

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Zhang et al ( 2024 ) have published a systematic review and meta-analysis of the incidence of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms. More than 40% experienced such effects. This figure is higher than the 15% estimate from another recent systematic review (see previous post ). As I pointed out in that previous post, so-called withdrawal symptoms also occur in the continuation arm of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), when such withdrawal symptoms wouldn't necessarily be expected in this group as p

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Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Being a parent can be incredibly rewarding, but it’s also demanding. It’s easy to get caught up in the daily grind and forget to take care of yourself. However, self-care for parents is essential. It helps you stay mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy, so you can be the best parent possible. When you take care of yourself, youre better able to parent with patience, joy, and presence.

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Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Researchers are identifying behavioral, environmental and neural factors through which genetic risk for mental health problems is expressed in youth.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A ttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a construct codified by the American Psychiatric Association. It conceptualizes a set of behavioral tendencies as a distinct condition marked by inattentiveness and impulsivity. The construct originally appeared as ADD in the 1980 edition of psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, and it was modified in the 1994 and 2013 editions.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Understanding the Significance of LGBTQ Internal Equality As a parent, have you ever wondered how your child feels when they face judgment, even within their community? Have you noticed the discomfort that arises when certain members of the LGBTQ community feel excluded or misunderstood? It’s disheartening to witness, yet it’s a reality for many.

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Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Watch the Recording In this conversation, Yuki Kotani of the Child Mind Institute talks to Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD , director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, about the ethics of artificial intelligence, consent, and privacy in digital youth mental health research and interventions. This discussion is part of our webinar series on Technology and Youth Mental Health , which asks how tech can improve mental health outcomes for all young people.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

I n 2023, the BBC released “ The Antidepressant Story ,” a film that details known, dangerous and sometimes permanent side effects associated with commonly prescribed antidepressants. The documentary features harrowing stories of former patients living with harm from SSRIs , or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. They caused persistent sexual dysfunction for a college professor in Iowa who wasn’t warned of its side effects.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Exploring the Connection Between Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorders As a parent, caregiver, or even a concerned family member, have you ever wondered whether the mood swings you witness in your loved one could be more than just emotional highs and lows? Have you noticed them feeling anxious during their manic episodes or perhaps experiencing panic attacks while feeling down?

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Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Getting to know someone you really like can be exhilarating but also a bit disorienting even more so if youre navigating love and dating for the first time. We cant ever truly know what a romantic partner is thinking or feeling, and it can be hard to discern, after the flush of first attraction fades, if a relationship is right. Uncertainty can make a relationship difficult for anyone, but for people with something called relationship obsessive-compulsive disorder, or R-OCD, it can feel unbeara

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The Anxiety Guy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Knowing what stage you are in with Hypochondria healing will allow you to see what the next step in your recovery is. Today we dive deep into where you are in the process. Enjoy! In this episode of The Anxiety Guy Podcast , I dive deep into a topic that affects many people struggling with health anxiety: confusion around hypochondria. If you’ve ever found yourself constantly worrying about your health, misinterpreting bodily sensations , or fearing the worst-case scenario with every sympto

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2024

I n 1986 I had my first experience spending time in a hospital. While riding a bicycle to a friend’s house my front tire hit a stone in the road and I went down. My next memory was waking up in the hospital and being told to try and remain still under the X-ray machine. No matter how hard I tried not to move I could not stop shaking. I remember people being around me, telling me that everything was going to be alright, one person even held my hand trying to comfort me through what was happ

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Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- also known as ADHD -- is typically thought of as a childhood condition. But more adults are realizing that their struggles with attention, focus and restlessness could in fact be undiagnosed ADHD, thanks in large part to trending social media videos racking up millions of views. A new national survey of 1,000 American adults finds that 25% of adults now suspect they may have undiagnosed ADHD.

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Bullet Psych

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Today, our focus will be on hypersomnolence disorders. This post will delve into narcolepsy and hypersomnolence disorder, along with exploring medical and psychiatric conditions, medications, and substances that may contribute to hypersomnolence. Today's Content Level: All levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) Overview of Hypersomnias Hypersomnias are a collection of sleep disorders characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness or extended sleep duration despite sufficient (or excessive

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Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The topic came up last week and it happens on a recurrent basis diagnoses especially psychiatric diagnoses are not good because they are stigmatizing. I addressed this fairly comprehensively in a post on this blog 10 years ago , but the persistent antipsychiatry rhetoric out there keeps repeating inaccuracies. Since then there has been a comprehensive academic definition of stigma that makes things clearer.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

W hen it comes to information on ADHD, there are no rules on what are considered good and bad practices. To this day, this results in websites, news messages and even academic textbooks that are very unbalanced and filled with fallacies. Unbalanced, for instance, in the sense that much emphasis is placed on brain and genetic studies that to this day have cost billions of dollars, while showing only very small associations—not providing any basis for biological screening.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A new article published in Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology finds pregnant women that chose to stop using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) did not face increased negative outcomes compared to pregnant women that continued using these drugs. The current research, led by Carolyn E.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I never knew what it was like—-to inhabit my body. I was always inhabiting others bodies in my body since the cave opened and my heart beheld the world. My soul stood still in another world——-a world out of this world a striding world within worlds of other sacred worlds. I fed on a breast that fed on me and the motherlessness of this hollowness haunted me.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Science writer John Horgan interviews Robert Whitaker about his book Anatomy of an Epidemic , the long-term impact of psychiatric drugs, and promising alternatives to the failed drug-based model of care. The post The Drug-based Approach to Mental Illness Has Failed appeared first on Mad In America.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Psychiatric Time s has been hosting a point/counterpoint regarding the validity of DSM diagnoses, which began when two Finnish researchers, Jussi Valtonen and Jani Kajanoja, published an article critiquing the presentation on web sites that confound the diagnosis of depression with a causal explanation for that diagnosis. That triggered a reply by Ronald Pies and Mark Ruffalo, which was published in Psychiatric Times, which sought to defend the “validity” of DSM diagnoses.

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