Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I tell this story through the lens of akathisia (and a similar condition known as restless leg syndrome or RLS) since it was an early indicator for me that while I was being treated for the typical symptoms of bipolar, I was actually dealing with trauma. Once I was discharged from the hospital, I actually felt great.

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Trauma and the brain Hospitality Healthcare 105

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses.

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

Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Personality disorders Pharmaceuticals 145

Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

There appears to be more dopamine uptake due to the antipsychotic-induced brain compensatory mechanism as a response to the suppressed blockade state in an effort to achieve energy equilibrium. A fter 22 years and many attempts I finally stopped taking antipsychotics.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Healthcare 103

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

I was hospitalized two or three times in a psychiatric unit. But my lived experience goes back to childhoodIve dealt with trauma, major depression, suicide attempts, some addiction problems, and night terrors. B ecky Brasfield has emerged as a formidable advocate for change in the complex landscape of mental health care.A

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

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

My eyes were first opened during a clinical psychology internship at a local psychiatric hospital. I was a research coordinator for an inpatient hospital involved with clinical research trials bringing depression drugs to market. I was completely shocked at what I witnessed in the industry-sponsored research trials.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health 122