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Mad in America
MARCH 5, 2025
His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information. A big example of that was theMedicating Normal event in Virginia Beach, where you and I first met.
Mad in America
JULY 20, 2024
In a previous story , I reported on the “TikTokification” of mental health —a phenomenon where social media content encourages young people to self-diagnose. Many students find comfort in the medical model of mental health because it simplifies experiences that are otherwise messy, uncomfortable, and difficult to make sense of. “I
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Mad in America
MAY 9, 2024
The topic of mental health is on the public’s mind, whether it’s the popularizing of therapy speak, the increased attention paid to severe mental illness and homelessness, or pop psychology advice on TikTok. This scenario in public psychiatry settings is, unfortunately, a familiar one.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 21, 2024
H uman behavior is shaped by a complex interplay of lifes events, conditions, and circumstances. From the safety of ones surroundings to access to proper nutrition, sleep, and social stability, the circumstances of life have a lasting biochemical effect on the brain. What did they experience? They are also more likely to be depressed.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
For months, the GP had focused on an alleged traumatic event causing her significant psychological distress. They could not recall any traumatic event, confirming instead a stable and nurturing home life. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.
Mad in America
JANUARY 9, 2024
T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. Even fewer spot the role assays play.
Mad in America
AUGUST 10, 2024
It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me.
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