Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In a study of fluoxetine (Prozac) for adolescents, researchers found that the placebo effect predicted good outcomes, but the actual drug treatment did not. After accounting for “treatment guess” (those who figured out that they were receiving an intervention rather than placebo), the drug was not effective in depression treatment. In fact, those who received a placebo but thought they received Prozac improved more than those who received the drug and knew it.

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Bullet Psych

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Today we will begin a new theme: sleep disorders. We will start by providing an overview of important sleep physiology. Today's Content Level: All levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) Why Do We Sleep? 1 , 2 Why we sleep remains one of natures greatest mysteries. The average person will spend about 27 years of their lifetime sleeping. Sleep is essential for many vital functions and a number of theories have been proposed regarding the purpose and function of sleep.

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Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Here are all the new articles and videos of this year 2023. I hope you will take your time to read, listen, or reread these resources. Here are the posts: Complex PTSD & The Power of Rebuilding Boundaries Crush It With These 4 Trauma Support Insights Trauma Informed Care 7 Simple Tips to Success How Your Complex PTSD Freeze Response Screws You and Protects You at The Same Time Emotional Coping & PTSD: Learn 2 Strategies for Recovery Here are the videos: You Thoughts Aren't just Your Tho

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 29, 2023

O n the evening of December 3, 2022, I overdosed on 400 mg of Amlodipine, a calcium channel blocker blood pressure medicine. I was in ICU for 11 days, and on a ventilator for four of those days. I’m still here, having been found the following day despite myself. So to back way up, as a kid I was brilliant. Funny, compassionate, athletic and so much more.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

O ne of the greatest things about this country that we live in is the freedoms we enjoy. Those freedoms were embedded in my parents. They believed in them, serving the country that proclaimed them after growing up in families that served as well. They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

From The Washington Post : “Federal health authorities are intensifying their scrutiny of the drug ketamine for treating mental health disorders, as the mind-altering compound grows in popularity despite the lack of regulatory approval for such use. The Food and Drug Administration warned in October about the risks of using pharmacy-made ketamine at home, citing the case of one patient whose breathing slowed to a dangerous level after taking a large dose outside of a health-care facility.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 26, 2023

From World Association for Infant Mental Health : “This article is a series of personal reflections on infancy, which I view as a period during which profoundly essential human spiritual experiences occur, albeit episodically and without reflective consciousness. These spiritual experiences lie at the core of what most traditions call the soul, but they become gradually veiled as we build the psychological structures of so-called maturity.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 23, 2023

S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. They were shatteringly vivid then—usually involving fleeing from hospital staff who wanted to lock me up and inject me with sedatives. But this dream was different, and it turns out, not so far from a possible reality. These days, I research alternatives to approaching psychosis, voice-hearing and unshared realities at the University of Edinburgh, which often feels like a su

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Hospitality Construction 135

Mad in America

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A few years ago, I began compiling what I affectionately call my “goofy” synchronicity stories. (Synchronicity was initially defined by Carl Jung to represent meaningful coincidences—“causally unrelated” events that happen near the same time and carry the same meaning.) I noticed that often, these independent events don’t happen at the same time or within a few moments of each other.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

W hen I interviewed psychiatrist Gordon Warme for my first hour-long documentary, Mars Project , I kept thinking “somebody needs to make a movie about this Warme guy.” Dr. Warme was remarkable because he was a sensible light in the confusing darkness of mental health discourse. He was one of the few psych-professionals who addressed the obvious contradictions of his specialty and I found his views to be refreshing.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A new study in Frontiers of Pharmacology finds that antidepressant use during pregnancy is linked to reduced motor skills in children at 2 years old. The association, although mild, persists even when accounting for maternal depressive symptoms and stress during pregnancy. The current study, headed by Noémie Tanguay of the Université Laval in Québec, finds no such deficits in cognitive or language development.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From KFF Health News : “When Angelo Quinto’s family learned that officials blamed his 2020 death on ‘excited delirium,’ a term they had never heard before, they couldn’t believe it. To them, it was obvious the science behind the diagnosis wasn’t real. Quinto, 30, had been pinned on the ground for at least 90 seconds by police in California and stopped breathing.

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