Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
She’s the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety and takes a functional medicine approach to mental health. I said, “On paper everything’s great, but I’m struggling with this existential feeling of being 38, single, childless, increasingly aware of mortality.” That doesn’t make sense from a genetic standpoint.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2024
.” —Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955) W ith the mainstream media finally reporting that “ depression is not caused by low levels of serotonin ,” many people ask me: Why does psychiatry repeatedly get it wrong when it comes to not only to its theories of mental illness but in so many other areas?
Mad in America
MAY 2, 2024
The prevailing logic goes: if we can validate biometric tests that are clinically predictive of mental health concerns like in other medical fields, we can more precisely, effectively, and without (solely) subjective clinical observation, treat the malady. Should we give up the search for biomarkers altogether?
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. I decided to agree with the medical model, that it was a genetic disease that could be treated with a medication, like diabetes. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. I was angry.
Mad in America
MARCH 12, 2024
Instead, it is thought of as an illness with a designated diagnosis, a medical condition causing you to be feeling, thinking, and behaving in ways that are either complicated and neurodivergent or dysfunctional, imbalanced, and mentally ill. You’re not emotional because you’re sick, and you’re not sick because you’re emotional.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Moore: We’re here to talk about some of your experiences of the mental health system and polypharmacy, experiences which are beautifully captured in your book, May Cause Side Effects , published by Central Recovery Press in 2022. I think radical acceptance and radical self-awareness go hand in hand.
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