Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I said, “On paper everything’s great, but I’m struggling with this existential feeling of being 38, single, childless, increasingly aware of mortality.” I’m aware it could be interpreted as invalidating mental health issues, but that’s not my intention. Siem: What’s the checklist or algorithm you use for identifying false anxiety?

Genetics and mental health 91

Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood 91

Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. More aware of a need for humility.

Biopsychosocial model 137

Biopsychosocial model Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Insurance 137

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of these studies, sponsored of course by a pharmaceutical company, was conducted by the Kansas University Medical School, Wichita branch, and I attended, along with a group of local psychologists, a presentation of this study in progress by one of the staff psychologists who was one of the researchers and CBT therapists.

Healthcare 93

Healthcare Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Pharmaceuticals 93

Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In marketing any product, from laundry detergent to prescription drugs to luxury automobiles, marketers know the key is to keep it simple, and the pharmaceutical industry certainly has learned this lesson well. From Freud, psychiatry looked to poor rearing of the child and early or later adverse life events as the cause of mental disorders.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 77

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

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. 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.

Trauma and the brain 141

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 141

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

Aging and mental health 138

Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 138

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Here are three possible ways: 1) Its normal to feel emotional pain in response to life events. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children.

Healthcare 88

Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 88

Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When you’re working with a client who has latched onto a metaphor, like the “broken brain” metaphor — which holds considerable cultural sway and is often endorsed by the psychiatric establishment and even pharmaceutical companies — how do you approach it? This heightened awareness leads him to a breakdown.

Aging and mental health 126

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

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

saying the following: KENNEDY: Prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost nonone of these events in our country, and we’ve never seen them in human history, where people walk into a school room of children or strangers and start shooting people. All right, there’s no evidence of that, Ms. I believe that I know the answer.

Self-awareness 145

Self-awareness Pharmaceuticals 145