Mad in America

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in Ireland. T he chemical imbalance theory of depression—what was once considered the gold standard reason for why people take antidepressants—was, apparently, “a figure of speech.” This gobsmacking admission from The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland appeared on its website in what seems to be relatively new content to reflect the long-known reality: there is not, nor has there ever been, any scientific

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Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This article was written by John Welwood, an American clinical psychologist, psychotherapist , teacher, and author, known for integrating psychological and spiritual concepts. He died in 2019. He wrote eight books, includingChallenge of the Heart(1985),Journey of the Heart(1990), andLove and Awakening(1996). Trained in existential psychology , Welwood earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Chicago.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I npatient psychiatry is not a place of psychological healing; it is devoid of compassion and full of human rights abuses. Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. The conditions are prison-like, human rights nonexistent, and intimate friendships banned.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

From Newsweek : “On Jan. 27, Dutch blogger Lauren Hoeve passed away through assisted suicide. After enduring years of chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME/CFS), autism, ADHD, and anxiety, she, at the young age of 28, chose euthanasia to escape a life dominated by pain. As a Canadian, I am familiar with the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, which has allowed eligible adults to request assisted death services since the federal legislation passed in

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I lost someone important to me in 2022. This someone was the first love of my 30s. And someone who I can confidently say was one of the great loves of my life. In public health, we talk about death. But we don’t talk about grief or bereavement. We aim to protect, preserve, and promote the health of individuals and their communities. We’re terribly outcomes-driven in this respect—we want results.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From The Guardian : “In 2017, the Cherokee Nation became the first tribe to file a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers and distributors for promoting the flow of prescription opioids into its community. The lawsuit, which was settled in 2021 with a $75m payout to the Cherokee Nation, alleged that in just one year, nearly 800kg of opioids – enough for almost 10m pills at oxycodone’s highest strength – were distributed within the reservation.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

From RTÉ : “[Irish] Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been urged to intervene in the case of a 14-year-old boy who has been left in a windowless room off a hospital emergency department in Co Kerry for the last 56 days. The child is among those impacted by failings in the North Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), with the HSE last year apologising for deficits in care he received, including the inappropriate prescribing of heavy anti-psychotic medication.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What if couples celebrate pose day instead of rose day? Teaching each other how to stand in front of the camera could be the best way to show love, most of the loyal but dumb people (like me) in this world fall in depression (instead of love) when their partners ask them to make a romantic gesture and……you know what happens… … after seeing our hilarious or horrible pictures our partners think, “Is this witch that fairy I fell for?!

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

What if couples celebrate pose day instead of rose day? Teaching each other how to stand in front of the camera could be the best way to show love, most of the loyal but dumb people (like me) in this world fall in depression (instead of love) when their partners ask them to make a romantic gesture and……you know what happens… … after seeing our hilarious or horrible pictures our partners think, “Is this witch that fairy I fell for?!

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

T hough still heartbreaking to families and to the entire communities in which they occur, teen suicide attempts are now relatively common. According to a recent report about American high school students, 42% experienced persistent feelings of hopelessness or sadness; 22% seriously considered attempting suicide; 18% made a suicide plan; and 10% actually attempted suicide in the past year alone.

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