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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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Subscribers get free access to all Mad in America content and webinar events. Please donate to help us continue our work in 2025 and beyond. You can become a MIA Supporter for $5 per month or $20 annually. Here we highlight the top ten of Mad in Americas most-read blogs and personal stories of 2024.

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A Psycho-Spiritual Journey

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Soon after mentioning these experiences to my local doctor and the minister of the church I attended, I was certified insane and involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Despite my best efforts, however, I was in and out of psychiatric hospitals for short stays on many occasions over the next fourteen years.

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Peer Support and Resistance: Becky Brasfield’s Vision for Mental Health Justice

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I was hospitalized two or three times in a psychiatric unit. I was incarcerated twice for my mental illness because the delusions were severe enough that I became out of control, and I received mental health probation. When I was in the hospital, I got peer support. Im a strong believer in self-exploration.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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Even more concerning is the potential for this trend to be exported to non-Western cultures, as has happened with the diagnostic model under the much-criticised Movement for Global Mental Health. This appears to be a real, although currently not widespread, possibility, as discussed here.

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Lessons from a Global Psychiatric Conference: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated

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The theme of the conference was public mental health. It was a star-studded event, with prominent figures from world psychiatry in attendance. Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals.