Mad in America

AUGUST 30, 2024

My brother’s loss was compounded by a series of traumatic events over the next several months. Because I was transitioning between units, I found myself managing simultaneous duties from both the old and new, trying to account for over a thousand Airmen who may have attended the event. At last, I am truly healing.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Currently, health insurance companies and Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) are allowing payment for health services that are either not supported by the best science available or, many times, payment is allowed which is contrary to the available scientific research.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 22, 2024

10 The reanalysis revealed that suicide attempts were significantly higher than what the original study had reported, and there were many more unreported serious adverse events in the Paxil group.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

IPS is a service/relational approach where staff with lived experience navigating the mental health system or having survived adverse events offer an alternative kind of support to individuals seeking services.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? Even as legalization proceeds apace across the country, ayahuasca circles and similar events can already be found in many communities.

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Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

Events that I could normally handle just fine were suddenly too much for me because of the severe withdrawal symptoms. In 2020, Charlotte Bouwman held a sit-down event at the Ministry of Health. It seems that doctors are sometimes reluctant to admit the alleged error because of their liability and insurance policies.

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Her rational is that if you see a loved one die because an insurance company denied care it is natural to want to see that person dead and this is not advocating homicide. Subsequent stories state that the insurance company planned to pay the time allotment indicated in the estimated relative value units (RVUs) for the surgery.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. We stopped going to public places and events; we hunkered down. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The most commonly reported adverse events attributed to discontinuation of alprazolam XR treatment (and other anxiolytics) are anxiety (30%), tremor (28%), dizziness (27%), headache (26%), insomnia (24%), depression (27%), decreased appetite (9.5%), hyperventilation (8.5%), and de-realization (8%).

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Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

We have to treat with medication,” he noted, “insurance demands it of us.” She much later read about similar events in the biography of an East Indian. None of the doctors noticed that from that time, until about eight weeks later when I was discharged, I had not been medicated.

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Zencare

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Natural disasters are powerful and unpredictable events that often leave lasting physical and emotional scars. The immediate aftermath of such traumatic events often brings feelings of shock, fear, and grief. Anger can also arise as survivors process feelings of powerlessness during the event.

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PsychStaffing Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

Outside of a competitive salary, paid time off, health insurance, and retirement funds are important financial considerations to keep in mind. You can do this through networking events, online platforms such as LinkedIn, or scheduling meetings just to learn about a practice.

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Anxiety Sisters

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It hosted political and civic events, the arts, and sports. We are limited by real-life challenges like our agoraphobia, our insurance coverage (or lack of it), and the limited resources in our area. We know traveling can be anxiety-provoking, but come with us to a faraway landjust for a minute. It was, in other words, the place to be.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Our thinking is that it will be a minor fee like $5 a month, maybe $40 a year, and we’ll provide some other benefits like free access to all MIA webinar events. The rest is mostly funded through private health insurance that people are paying for. And we will include a free option for subscribing.

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Mad in America

JUNE 26, 2024

In grad school, I had the best health insurance I’ve ever had in my whole life. Schleider : It does, but it’s not the main event. And I was in this intensive outpatient program. Structured meals were part of it. In the past, really no treatment that I had received had worked. I mean, I know it does in some realms.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

They not only have to comply with regulations and insurance company requirements but there’s also often a lack of advocacy at the higher levels to support specific programs like Open Dialogue. We’re planning a big launch event, and we’ll also have several people who contributed to the Reader featured on the DEPTH Work podcast.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

In Australia, the economic cost has been particularly damaging to the life insurance industry who often pick up the cost of income protection for workers who have been diagnosed with a mental disorder.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Through a series of bizarre coincidences or events, my best friend broke a skateboard. Essentially what emerged, the story behind it, was that the chain of hospitals had been essentially corrupt —and kept you there until your health insurance ran out. Biancolli : Doubling back right now to the hospital that you were in.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A common series of events in our shared experiences is this : (1) Misdiagnosis or flawed mental health diagnosis. MECTA Electroshock Device Manufacturer Files for Bankruptcy as its Shock Box Loses Liability Insurance. Ive learned so much, and my perspectives on the world have changed so much. 2) Treatment with psychiatric drugs. (3)

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But after this event, I started visiting the school counsellor frequently. The only available therapist that my insurance paid for was a vegan Buddhist. He used to sit next to me, and some other children blamed me for his death, because he had left a letter for me. I didn’t know what to make of it, since we weren’t close friends.

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Mad in America

JULY 17, 2024

This situation unfolded alongside several other significant historical events from the 1970s onwards. Many of these programs don’t even take insurance, so well-off families pay cash, making them the true clients. In LA, one crucial context was the emergence of what’s called the “new homelessness” in the late 70s and 80s.

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Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2025

We are witnessing a strange turn of events where it seems that psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals are more interested in engaging in social work or community health than actual social workers these days and no one is blinking an eye.

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