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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

Mad in America

When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. I believe these kinds of questions will shape our understanding of the future of mental health.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

Mad in America

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Anniek: I had cleared six months of time to make sure I had time for optimal self-care. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

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Social Media Discovers Managed Care and Rages - Or Not?

Real Psychiatry

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. I have been aware of United Healthcare for at least 30 years. One thing is for sure the current state of events is not a good sign. It is a justice fantasy.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

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. Will they give up that power, that domain, that authority, that sense of self?

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people. Russell: At this point, many people are aware that trauma is a major factor that can lead to psychosis. Russell: Sure.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

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. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

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What Happens When There Is No Help?

Mad in America

But after this event, I started visiting the school counsellor frequently. I started self-harming, just to feel my skin and keep the emotional pain at bay. I didn’t feel my skin or my body much, but I wasn’t aware of this dissociation at that time. The only available therapist that my insurance paid for was a vegan Buddhist.