Mad in America

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Mary has also supported me personally while I was in an extreme state, keynote at a PeerZone event—her ways of being with me exemplified mutual aid, enabling me to navigate my extreme state outside of the carceral mental health system, including presenting my keynote, held in collective care.

Mental health advocacy 132

Mental health advocacy Legal 132

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The authors refused to withdraw the article, which resulted in a five-month battle where they needed legal assistance from their university and from Germany where the publisher is located. And when studying rare events, it is unacceptable to lose statistical power by including only “recent” trials. 24] Hughes et al.

Aging and mental health 145

Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health Insurance 145

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

The mania, paranoia, delusional thoughts and rage I’d been experiencing in the days and weeks leading up to this event became an untenable crisis. My older children had been angry with me for years because I had not corrected the bad information they’d been told about my psychotic events.

Trauma and the brain 126

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 126

Mad in America

JANUARY 27, 2024

In reality, however, it seems like few people have the experience of their psychiatrists willing to do that, as any unfortunate events happening during tapering are likely to be attributed to discontinuation process. We will emphasize that most tragic happenings in society have nothing to do with mental illness.

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Self-awareness Manufacturing Legal Healthcare 110

Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

And yet it’s required to document itself as if it weren’t any different, and this language, as with all of health care, become the basis for billing, proving policy compliance, and legal protection. Yet it was written up as a “health education” event about hand-washing to prevent the spread of covid-19.

Insurance 126

Insurance Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Legal 126

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

I once asked a senior doctor if it was really legal to do that. “Do Do you want it legal? Then we will do it legally!” It may happen that you are given the choice between remaining in the department “voluntarily” or that a care certificate is written. I got in reply. I objected that there was absolutely no need.

Legal 103

Legal Sleep and mental health Hospitality Healthcare 103

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this way, we put everyone else who is injured by the drug in a state of legal jeopardy because companies can claim nothing like happened in our studies – it’s your anecdote against our evidence. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays. Many hope Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

Sleep and mental health 136

Sleep and mental health Legal Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 136

Lawyers with Depression

JULY 22, 2024

The legal profession is renowned for its rigorous demands and high-pressure environment. They must constantly learn and stay updated on changing laws and legal trends. We must have a discussion about alcohol abuse and addictions within the legal profession. Lawyers have to hustle and compete for clients and recognition.

Legal 52

Legal Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Technology 52

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

Dr. Healey was an expert witness on several legal actions against drug companies in which people had committed homicide or suicide while taking SSRI ADMs. These were reported cases of violent events and there may have been other such violent events that were not reported by the drug companies to the FDA.

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Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Hospitality Aging and mental health 102

The Art of Healing Trauma

OCTOBER 8, 2018

They silently and unknowingly absorb the inner sense that they are somehow to blame for the traumatic events. It seeps into the unconscious mind and becomes an invisible weight to bear, every hour of every day, a weight that lowers self-esteem, undermines confidence and hinders taking back their life from the traumatic events.

Nonprofits 52

Nonprofits Legal 52

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year. There can even be a legal dimension in which a doctor is held culpable if he contravenes a guideline. Drug Injuries are a piece of a wider problem known as iatrogenesis (doctor-made illness).

Pharmaceuticals 143

Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Construction Education 143

Real Psychiatry

JANUARY 12, 2025

Studies have shown that it often takes a life-threatening problem or major life event to quit - but even that may not be enough. Both of those theories leave out the cultural elements that include social settings, celebrations, religious ceremonies, traditions, and local customs that use intoxicants as part of the event.

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Legal 52

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them. An analysis of adverse drug events submitted to the FDA between 2004 and 2009 identified 1,937 cases of violence, 387 of which were homicide. Brain-active substances can lead to violence, including murder.

Genetics and mental health 142

Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Manufacturing Education 142

Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

He argues happy people are by nature more optimistic and tend to attribute negative events to temporary and external factors. Pessimists, on the other hand, do just they oppose and tend to attribute negative events to stable and pervasive factors. Learn to manage your stress by finding healthy outlets for it.

Legal 52

Legal Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

.’ The day featured a number of talks by academics and experts from the faculty and guest speakers, covering topics such as proposals for a young onset dementia service, integrated care in health services, innovations in service delivery, clinical and legal updates and more. View the programme of the day below

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Legal Hospitality 52

Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2024

While corporal punishment was legal, and may have been believed to be ‘normal and acceptable’ in the 1970s, the sexual abuse of an 11-year-old boy by a 19-year-old woman was not. At the event, a 24-year-old alumnus told me he had recently found the first letter that he had written home after being sent to board at eight.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

Recently, my therapist said her clients were crying about things going on in the world, not about their jobs, but about national events. I use the term behavioral health to describe a system of mental health, substance use, and adjacent related service networks (legal systems, primary care, housing, etc.) Theres a disconnect.

Poverty and mental health 123

Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Global mental health Hospitality 123

Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

This would seem to meet the legal criteria for libel, given that both the STAR*D authors and the AJP knew that Pigott and colleagues had done no such thing. Instead, they had made up this post hoc accusation in an effort to impugn the credibility of Pigott and colleagues. Eli Lilly honed a four-point message for the media.

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Pharmaceuticals Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 145

Mad in America

JANUARY 22, 2025

That distinction is relevant because you earned it after a fascinating series of events surrounding your ADHD research. LeFever Watson: Its legal drug dealing. Brooke Siem: Gretchen, I didnt know you were recognized as one of 100 international scientists journalists can rely on for unbiased reviews of health research.

Education 120

Education Aging and mental health Legal Healthcare 120

How Psychiatry Works

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Adverse events such as death, illness, displacement, or change in economic status can disrupt basic security. Even if legal remedies tend towards primitive retribution and ineffective punishments, the idea of taking on more responsibility with age corresponds to the reality of human development.

Self-awareness 52

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The marketing of these drugs to general physicians and the public at large has been so successful that physicians are convinced that the failure to prescribe these drugs would be considered negligent, even legally indefensible! The popularity of any therapy, however, may have little or nothing to do with its effectiveness.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 77

NAMI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Processing My Mental Health After Trauma Since that day, the trauma from that event has never left me. When you add the word disorder, it only stigmatizes a fairly normal response to an awful event or circumstance. To my disbelief, the person tried pulling the trigger two times, but the bullets never left that gun.

Self-awareness 52

Self-awareness Legal 52

The Art of Healing Trauma

JUNE 20, 2020

The trauma is being created not by a clear, life-threatening event, but by an atmosphere that constantly shocks us by being wrong to us in some way or unacceptable to us in some manner. For example, legal procedures or governmental institutions that violate basic human rights can leave people in shock.

Childhood trauma 52

Childhood trauma Legal 52

Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents. I just “blindly trusted” my family doctor.

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Legal Pharmaceuticals Healthcare Hospitality 116

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The number of pharmaceutical products in the home today is unprecedented—and drugs, both legal and illegal, continue to be the leading cause of child poisoning. After Tyra’s death, her parents sued Shire for $100,000 to recover medical, legal, and funeral expenses. Their drug quickly became the fastest growing ADHD product in the US.

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Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Nonprofits 139

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This event is scheduled for March 25th but ahead of this I took the opportunity to ask Rob a few questions. The legal criteria to detain and forcibly drug people under mental health laws have broadened a lot, and the best data we have shows that rates of psychiatric incarcerations have been rising for decades.

Poverty and mental health 112

Poverty and mental health Hospitality Legal 112

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Gina Teixeira, the male patients attorney with the Connecticut Legal Rights Project , commented that a female clients health had improved after involuntary ECT was halted because of a stay of the court order, contradicting how the hospital said that without shock she deteriorates. Hundreds forced to have ECT without legal representation.

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing Legal 121

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

*Situational distress encompasses a significantly challenging or troubling mixed experience of mind, thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, or behaviours, associated with an apparent decompensating event, such as bereavement, a change in health status, relationship breakdown, financial, or occupational difficulties.

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Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 141

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

The reasoning is that, from a neurodiversity perspective, ‘schizophrenia’ does not refer either to the symptoms of an illness, or to reactions to toxic circumstances and life events. Its mischaracterisations of the work of the UK critics were so pronounced, and the personal slurs so extreme, that some were forced to seek legal advice.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 143

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In time, as events similar to Palo Alto’s suicides-by-train became more and more prevalent, we enshrined them in our memories as—though still very painful—somewhat normal. Speaking from the experience of my family: at first we were in successive waves of shock, then we cried and grieved for quite some time, and then eventually, we moved on.

Nutrition and mood 108

Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Technology 108

Zencare

MARCH 3, 2025

Stressful life events: Major changes like job loss, breakups, or the death of a loved one. Positive life events: Exciting milestones like marriage or childbirth can also be triggers. Stay calm and avoid escalating stressful events. Manic episodes can be triggered by various factors, which vary from person to person.

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Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Healthcare 52

Mad in America

JANUARY 13, 2024

S emi-retired pop star Britney Spears is almost as famous for her 13+-year conservatorship —during which all personal, professional, and medical decisions were under legal control of her father—as for her music. Spears skims over major events in her life since it ended, though. And it isn’t pretty. She’s alleged financial misconduct.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

psychiatrists to serve as their consultants, advisers, and speakers, or to provide free food, beverages and lodging to those attending promotional events.” For societal and family authorities, psychiatry has another political role, an “extra-legal police function.”

Technology 143

Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 143

Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The new drug application for MDMA-AT submitted by MAPS would have allowed MDMA legal use solely within MAPS’ proprietary psychotherapy protocol and only for individuals with a PTSD diagnosis. It should not mar the approval process. Ingrascis impact on the field cannot be understated.

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Psychedelic therapy Legal Aging and mental health Self-awareness 114

Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In addition to contract interference, members of Stabbin’ Wagon, including the Director of the non-profit, were arrested by the Medford Police at a low-barrier HIV testing event they were hosting the same week that we were negotiating our peer respite contract in early August this year. We do so with honesty and integrity.

Sleep and mental health 104

Sleep and mental health Legal Hospitality Nonprofits 104

Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

It was a star-studded event, with prominent figures from world psychiatry in attendance. The theme of the conference was public mental health. It was held over three whole days; 900 people from across the world had registered to attend, both face to face and virtually!

Global mental health 120

Global mental health Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 120

Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The driving force behind these legal changes was recognition of what the victims were going through. Various efforts have been made to minimize the event and the media seems to go along with them. It is hard to imagine how many people were directly threatened and heard that response from law enforcement.

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