Mad in America

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

W e are living in an era of unparalleled prosperity, driven by advances in technology that have made the basic necessities of life—food, water, shelter—widely accessible to many. Life in America has generally become easier due to technological advancements. when agriculture began and modern civilization developed.

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Genetics and mental health Agriculture Neurotransmitters and mental health Technology 114

Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hailed as the future of mental health care, it conjures images of medical interventions as carefully planned and executed military operations, striking with lethal accuracy at the heart of mental suffering while minimising collateral damage. Photo by A.T.

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Resilience and coping Healthcare 122

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

JANUARY 22, 2025

Functional psychiatry represents a transformative shift in mental health care, addressing the root causes of mental health conditions by integrating physical, psychological, and environmental factors. This comprehensive, personalized approach aims to provide long-lasting solutions for mental well-being.

Nutrition and mood 52

Nutrition and mood Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 52

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?

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Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Education Construction 145

Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 139

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop. There are no studies, not yet.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals 133

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. He sets out to study the genetics of schizophrenia, through twins.

Trauma and the brain 140

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Technology 140