Mad in America

AUGUST 23, 2024

She never would want to hear an argument made from an anecdotal reference. She was never again able to function at the high level she did before, sleeping a lot at first and then developing insomnia afterward. She spent three years living with us, in and out of short stays in psychiatric hospitals, getting more and more depressed.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

3] I explained why none of the references supported this. [4] In 2017, suicide experts wrote in the Swedish medical journal that antidepressants, lithium, and clozapine prevent suicides, but several of their references were seriously misleading, and I noted that there is no reliable evidence that any drug can prevent suicide. [5]

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A common notice in hospital patients’ charts is: “The patient doesn’t want drugs. In 2020, the UK mental health charity Mind said it signposted people to street drug charities to help them withdraw from depression pills because of the lack of available alternatives. Discharged.” 609 Progress is very slow. What’s the difference?

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The residents, most of whom were either born in Gujarat, or had somehow ended up in Gujarat, had been referred to this Center by hospitals, various non-governmental organizations, or simply arrived here by word-of-mouth. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 102

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In her twenties, from an affluent, predominantly white neighbourhood, she was referred to me by her family doctor. The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”

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Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood Aging and mental health Insurance 112

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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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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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Little did it know that this incident would alter the course of the nation’s approach to mental health care. For centuries, this dargah had attracted pilgrims from diverse faiths, all drawn by the belief in the shrine’s miraculous powers to cure mental ailments brought on by evil spirits, djinns , and black magic.

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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

JULY 26, 2024

He went to the hospital—subdued and in custody—for his wounds, and I went to the hospital for mine. Protocol Concerned for my well-being, my department referred me to a psychiatrist specializing in trauma. I began to finally heal and take my mental health seriously. I deserved to be Meagan again.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen. Her hospitalizations started in 2010, less than a year after her book was published and before her planned NY Times interview. Forgetting.

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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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This textbook claimed, with no references, that studies from the London School of Economics show that it is a really good business for society to offer treatment of psychiatric disorders. 639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. It is the other way around.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The vast majority of psychiatrists and non-psychiatric physicians still hold onto the belief, despite overwhelming scientific evidence, that behavioral health disorders are diseases of the brain and for most of these “diseases” the primary and, for many of physicians, the sole treatment is pharmaceuticals! according to the maker.

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Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The dreadful physical symptoms of severe depression, including cognitive decline and impaired eyesight, overwhelmed my existence, and I started to keep a naive collection of aspirins and over-the-counter sleep aids for ending my life. Later, bipolar disorder took its place. I selected one whose website exuded a sense of bureaucracy.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

I don’t think there’s enough actual oversight, whether civilian or governmental, of the mental health system, and it does a ton of harm.” Every time I was in the hospital, they always had a little flier that said, ‘Know your Rights.’ “They’re good people and they give a s**t,” he said of the volunteers. “I

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It struck me as odd that throughout the book, you refer to your parents as Norman and Lorna rather than father and mother. She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasnt just the breakit was what happened in the hospital. Grundy: None at all.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. ” They referred to a Danish registry study, and there were no reservations whatsoever about the conclusion. Number eight was my comment on the National Board of Health’s website.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The truth is that, in our “diagnostic culture,” all these behaviors and emotions will be translated as symptoms of some mental disorder classified in the DSM. In his words: “Hospitals are part of life in this world. That anguished search ended, tragically, with her first psychiatric hospitalization.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

It struck me as odd that throughout the book, you refer to your parents as “Norman” and “Lorna” rather than “father” and “mother.” She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasn’t just the break—it was what happened in the hospital.

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Sleep and mental health Hospitality Resilience and coping Aging and mental health 52

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. Many a Seeker arrives having spent nights drinking and watching porn, sleeping during the day and unable to work or read. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal. Though, naturally, we can feel a victim.

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Zencare

JANUARY 22, 2025

There are 298 mental health conditions currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition-TR, which is the standard reference for clinical practice among trained, licensed mental health professionals, in the US. Written by Rebekah Ferguson, LMHC.

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Bipolar disorder Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Genetics and mental health 52

Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2024

His research and clinical work focus on Puerto Rican and Latinx populations, ethnic minority identity, psychotherapy, and the social determinants of health. How does clinical technique tie back to a model of the mind or mental health? I refer to this as a language of verticality, above and below.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 142

Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

The theme of the conference was public mental health. Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals. This is known as the Movement for Global Mental Health.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Peer respites are an innovative and cost effective alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, and these resources are badly needed across the country. In late 2022, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued a public request for grant proposals, and our organization was chosen to create and operate a peer respite in Southern Oregon.

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