Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For months, the GP had focused on an alleged traumatic event causing her significant psychological distress. They could not recall any traumatic event, confirming instead a stable and nurturing home life. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

MAY 13, 2024

LikeWorld Mental Health Day (WMHD), celebrated annuallyon the 10th of October, Mental Health Week has become widely recognised throughout many European countries. The event represents a commitment to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilise efforts in support of mental health.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Researchers in Australia assigned more than 1,000 young teenagers to one of two classes: either a typical middle-school health class or one that taught a version of a mental-health treatment called dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT. Another, they were told to sleep more, eat right, and exercise.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. Drug-induced adverse events are key to spell-binding or spell-breaking in this case.

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Mad in America

JULY 25, 2024

I had been sent to a psychiatrist at Manchester Royal Infirmary after my 2 nd violent mugging; I wasn’t eating or sleeping. My mental health went down fast this time. All those symptoms came back and worse until I was unable to get out of my bedroom, stuck in a world of mental terror. We all have innate wellbeing.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse. times more likely to have experienced adverse childhood events than healthy individuals.

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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. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor.

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

Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. Fifth, events after the trial is stopped are ignored. when the follow-up was 30 days, i.e. an increase in suicidal events. 15 Third, half of all deaths are missing in published trial reports.

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Aging and mental health Hospitality Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. First, how many hours of sleep did I get the night before? On nights when I had not gotten a lot of sleep, my mania levels did not rise as much as might be expected.

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Child Mind Intitute

JANUARY 28, 2025

But did you know that this simple practice of putting pen to paper has decades of scientific backing as a tool for mental health and personal growth? Heres why mental health professionals recommend journaling and what research tells us about its benefits. Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing.

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Kids Mental Health Info

DECEMBER 9, 2014

When children experience a traumatic event, they may react in both a psychological and physical way. However, some children who have experienced a traumatic event will have longer lasting reactions that can interfere with their physical and emotional health. appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. And when studying rare events, it is unacceptable to lose statistical power by including only “recent” trials. 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

She’s the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety and takes a functional medicine approach to mental health. Sometimes, we think we’re experiencing deep mental health issues when we’re actually dealing with inflammation, chronic sleep deprivation, or blood sugar fluctuations. That’s false anxiety.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me.

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Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services Aging and mental health 110

Mad in America

JANUARY 10, 2024

In it, a mental health worker and former long-term patient describes the aspects of treatment and life experiences that helped with recovery, as well as which aspects hindered recovery. ” The importance of psychoeducation is emphasized today in all current treatment recommendations and treatment paths related to mental health.

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Sleep and mental health 141

Mad in America

JUNE 28, 2024

A few months ago, I attended a live Zoom event on Guidely with Dr. Gabor Maté, author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture. Plus a third prescription antidepressant for sleep such as amitriptyline or trazodone. Six years ago, after my second wife died, I found a new career in mental health care.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. I recall hearing my parents fight through the walls as I tried to sleep at night. The next day I approached my mother and asked why they were fighting the night before.

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Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Early intervention 111

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It was prompted, in part, by events on social media last month. The two positive themes were ‘symptom reduction’ and ‘sleep’. Maybe helpful for a short time, but likely not worth it in the end they clouded my perceptions and sense of self very badly’ ‘They are not “antipsychotic” they just helped me sleep.’ ‘I

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Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 145

Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? It was also then that I started taking quetiapine (Seroquel) in addition to citalopram for a better night’s sleep. When I did manage to taper off a bit, I felt an immediate improvement in my health.

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Solara Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

Understanding PTSD and War Flashbacks Defining Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychological disorder that can occur after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. These symptoms can be debilitating and can significantly affect a person’s quality of life. What causes flashbacks?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2025

It was clear to me that the whole succession of events had happened because I was in public disgrace. Then I caught the eye of a mental health worker whose look seemed to say, Dont encourage her. I thought about the succession of events that got me there and wanted to say, this is my first time for any of this s**t!

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Retail Sleep and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 104

Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Today's Content Level: All levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) Introduction to Insomnia 1 , 2 Insomnia(s) = condition(s) that result in inadequate quality or quantity of sleep, characterized by difficulties in 1 of the following: Falling asleep (sleep initiation). Staying asleep (sleep maintenance).

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Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

The medical profession expressed a global disdain towards these individuals; those diagnosed with a mental health condition were highly stigmatised and considered weak or defective characters. I couldn’t sleep, I felt agitated, my thoughts were going round and round and then I became suicidal. Admittedly I was tired out.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Vibrant Says… Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant) is described as “one of the nation’s leading mental health organizations.” But never have I ever ‘secret shopped’ anything in the ‘mental health’ world before. Mental health system providers rarely apologize, so that was meaningful even if only a small thing.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Both practitioners and health researchers shape the kind of healthcare delivered to patients but, unfortunately, practitioner influence has been substantially greater than the scientific health research influence in shaping clinical practice. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare.

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Zencare

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Natural disasters are powerful and unpredictable events that often leave lasting physical and emotional scars. In recent years, the increasing frequency and intensity of these disasters exacerbated by climate change has had profound effects on mental health. Published on February 1, 2025 by Zencare Team.

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Lightwork

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A mental health provider will help determine the most effective treatment combination based on your specific symptoms, lifestyle, and seasonal pattern. Coping Strategies for Women with SAD Living with Seasonal Affective Disorder requires a multi-faceted approach to managing symptoms and maintaining mental well-being.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Mindfulness practices 52

Mad in America

JANUARY 12, 2024

I was experiencing my first manic episode, brought on by a traumatic event. I hadn’t had a chance to put a bra on yet that day, as I had gone to sleep under the impression that my mother was going to defend me. When I asked the nurse about it, she said it was to help me sleep. Four hours of sleep was pretty normal for me.

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Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain Hospitality Aging and mental health 105

Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Traumatic grief : Unexpected deaths or traumatic events can cause shock, guilt, and confusion, complicating the grieving process. 877.799.1985 Mental Health Implications of Unprocessed Grief When grief goes unaddressed, its physical and mental health consequences can be profound. Related: What is Grief?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

17:650 They wrote that the lack of compliance is worst for psychoses, which leads to lack of recovery, relapse and readmissions, and that the patients must understand that the diseases will have health and social consequences if the treatment is not being followed. They are restricted uneducational grants, as their purpose is to buy doctors.

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Mad in America

JULY 26, 2024

Two years earlier, I’d been prescribed a litany of psychiatric drugs as treatment for a life-threatening event I experienced as a San Bernardino Deputy Sheriff. One was for anxiety, one was for sleep, one was to help my heart rhythm for panic attacks—something for everything I described and couldn’t understand was happening to my body.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This ongoing failure can be traced back to the publication of DSM-III in 1980, when American psychiatry adopted a disease model for categorizing and treating mental disorders.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

I’ve come here from the surgical emergency department, where I spent a week to date before having my third mental breakdown that spring. Even before that, I had had covid and sustained long-term breathing difficulties that the health center refused to investigate. ” it comes from the mental nurse. Can we talk?”

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My Psychiatry

JANUARY 14, 2025

Symptoms associated with baby blues include anxiety, mood swings, difficulty sleeping, and crying spells. PPD is categorized as a form of major depression as per the DSM-5 (the manual used to diagnose mental disorders). A typical baby blues episode will begin a day or two after delivery and might last for up to two weeks max.

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Solara Mental Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

But sleep is important to be your happiest. Eat well eating nutritious foods can help maintain your mental health. If youve got time, check out our 3 lifestyle changes for better mental health ! And, sometimes having a child is one life event that may push a person past the threshold into a depressive state.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

Lightwork

JANUARY 23, 2025

These momentswhether we plan them or notcan include changes in our careers, shifts in relationships, health problems, or personal growth. These changes can be overwhelming, causing uncertainty and stress that affect our mental well-being. During such periods, it’s crucial to prioritize your mental health.

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

Definition and symptom list adapted from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP): All children and adolescents experience stressful events which can affect them both emotionally and physically. But some children exposed to stressful, scary, or dangerous events may develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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