Psychiatric Times

MARCH 6, 2025

All we can do is try our best to stay informed. The impacts of this pandemic continue to ripple. Thats where we come in.

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The Online Therapist

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It is not technically in the self-help genre, more technical, but it holds information essential to understanding how we see relationships. Change your thinking and change your life. However, there is one book that I have returned to many times.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

One is on conflicts of interest in medicine broadly, looking at influential information sources that are used by physicians and other healthcare providers. That information wasn’t available. So, we wanted to help them out, if you will, and get this information into the public domain. I have two lines of research.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Any wonder, when for decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain—specifically, low levels of serotonin. Is there a programme of work to inform various sectors such as social workers, pharmacists, and GPs, as a starting point? This is simply not the case.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Together, we have created a movement that rejects coercion, force, and pharmaceutical propaganda and embraces informed consent, individual choice, and alternative ways to deal with distress. People have the right to take informed risks if that’s what they want. What about the basis for informed consent?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As I found out later, all the information I offered to help the MDs find a diagnosis was correct, but they would not listen and would not go to the internet to research my symptoms. How does that become a determining factor as to whether to replace incorrect information with correct information? It is unreasonable and unjust.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Dangerous Consequences of the Expansion The Rise of Trauma-Informed Care The rise of trauma-related diagnoses has brought with it the therapeutic approach Trauma-Informed Care (TIC). Demonstrating this, approximately 61% of adults report having experienced at least one ACE, and 16% report experiencing four or more types of ACEs.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Here is a selection of such passages: From a section on “international human rights law”: All persons should be able to exercise their right to give free and informed consent to accept or reject treatment in mental health systems. They also contradict the right to free and informed consent and, more generally, the right to health.

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Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information. Congressman, and we were working toward bringing this issue before Congress to push for an informed consent exception in emergencies. We contacted our state representative and U.S.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its a harsh reality, but one that most patients are never informed about. We need to start informing patients about these risksbefore they become another needless casualty in the growing crisis of psychiatric drug-induced harm. T aking psychiatric medications long-term is like playing Russian roulette.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It seems pretty clear that prescribers are not as informed as they should be. Being adequately educated about psychiatric drugs means knowing enough about what they’re prescribing to give patients the opportunity to provide informed consent to treatment. So poorly informed, they’re putting patients in danger.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The resulting online questionnaire had 47 questions, covering demographics; the prescribing process; information about antidepressant usage and perceptions of their effectiveness; side-effects; benefits; experiences of alternative treatment options; and beliefs about the causes of depression. there are two very reasonable concerns.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You can’t find what’s on Mad in America anywhere else on the web in terms of the information about drugs, research, news, and the variety of opinions and personal stories. Society needs informed consent around the use of these drugs. That’s a story of great benefit from informed consent. Never, ever.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Think about what this means for providers who are trying to offer a patient accurate information about an antidepressant. Two goals are in direct conflict here: fully informed consent versus maximizing placebo value. One of the reasons: creating informative Patient Decision Aids (PDAs) is difficult.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 1, 2024

. “This has never been properly investigated and described, and there is an urgent need to understand the incidence, prevalence, and natural history of PSSD, with a focus on informing prevention as well as investigating treatments.” ” You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters.

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Mad in America

APRIL 27, 2024

And then it informed its readers the following: “The largest study of multiple antidepressants—nicknamed the STAR*D trial—found that half of the participants had improved after using either the first or second medication that they tried, and nearly 70 percent of people had become symptom-free by the fourth antidepressant.”

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2024

Ultimately, this fear is amplified by the fact that there is very little useful information out there about safe tapering (a problem I’m now trying to fix, but I’ll get to that). Information is the most valuable currency in the tapering game, and when it came to Zyprexa, there was none. No problem, let’s get you off that!”

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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. In addition to mentioning antidepressants, they provide information on two new drugs developed specifically to treat PPD, brexanolone (Zulresso) and zuranolone (Zurzuvae). Are Drugs the Answer?

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Mad in America

MAY 15, 2024

Siem: I was listening to an episode of your podcast, the True Psychiatry, and you said that when you’re going through med school and residency, you don’t really have time to be a critical thinker when it comes to the information you’re receiving. In psychiatry, informed consent is really not performed.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

He could see something wasnt right, and once he had obtained a copy of the STAR*D protocol through a freedom of information (FOI) request, he and his colleagues, starting with a paper published in 2009, were able to detail the ways that the STAR*D investigators had deviated from the protocol to inflate their published remission rates.

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Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

I also informed Senior Services of my actions. No one would give me any information. No one informed me of the risks. An anonymous staff member at one of the facilities did inform me, near the end of her life, that she had suffered several falls and had only seen a dentist a couple of times. That was me: the bad guy.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Overall, sensitivity is a heightened ‘ability to perceive, process, and respond deeply to one’s environment,’ which means sensitive people absorb more sensory information (often unconsciously), think more deeply, and find more interconnections among disparate things than less sensitive people typically do. Sensory intelligence.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

I acknowledged to the therapists that I too worked as a therapist, but I did not reveal I was also gathering information to write about the platform. BetterHelp makes it easy to switch therapists if you are dissatisfied, without needing to inform the therapist you plan to make the change. The company agreed to refund $7.8

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The studys results indicate the following impacts of various types of exercise on children with ADHD: Cognitive-aerobic exercise demonstrates the most significant effect on working memory, or the capacity for holding and using information over a short period of time. Mind-Body Exercise for Working Memory Mind-body exercises (e.g.,

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The website informs doctors and patients about tapering the medication by gradually reducing the daily dose, thereby preventing or minimising withdrawal symptoms. Several scientific studies have been published (freely available) based on information derived from the patients: Groot PC, van Os J.

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Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

We were expected to assimilate a massive amount of information and then to regurgitate it during the end of the year exams. During this time, I even managed to get back to work and I was writing my memoir, going through my medical notes to glean the necessary information. But I was only drug free for a couple of years.

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

Example quotations from relevant papers include: “ To utilize all available information and reduce research waste and avoid overestimating the effect, meta-analysts should incorporate DZS [double zero studies], rather than simply removing them ” ( Ren et al.,

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I do not think that anyone who has not already experienced akathisia can realistically be prepared for this possibility through informed consent; it is simply too uncomfortable to be fully imagined in advance. As a consequence of tapering, akathisia is devastating. This is what keeps me from my string of withdrawal clinics.

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Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2024

The authors conclude: “ C lients need to be informed about potential adverse effects and alternative treatment options; and the treatment team need to ask questions to understand the effects of treatments so that tweaks and changes can be agreed together.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

He informed the Board of Control that it consists of trephining the skull in the temporal frontal region. Is the system trauma-informed? Evans made a request to Oregons State Board of Control to approve the use of lobotomies at OSH. with) a specially constructed instrument, a thin, sharp knife like a blade about four inches long.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 9, 2024

There was a law that was just passed in California that prohibits school districts from requiring staff to disclose to parents information related to a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Abigail Shrier talks about this in Bad Therapy , about how schools and counselors are keeping mental health information from parents.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In an ideal world, the goal would be to have interconnected, trauma-informed, “helping” communities. Your informal support network may include biological family members, close friends, peers (e.g., The informal network plays a major role in providing support, helping someone to hold on to hope, and—in the process—preventing suicide.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 20, 2024

So much for informed consent, I thought. A nurse practitioner from the surgeon’s practice came into my room to go over the prescriptions I’d be sent home with and gave me an information packet on what to do for my at-home care. She mentioned using gabapentin, and I reiterated what I’d told the nurse practitioner.

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Mad in America

JUNE 21, 2024

More importantly, if the Veterans Administration is sincere in wanting to reduce veteran suicides, the first place to start is to collect information following these deaths to try to better understand the causes. Investigating Cody’s death is not enough—he was only one of tens of thousands we have lost.

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Critical Psychiatry

OCTOBER 8, 2024

These professional bodies cant always be relied on for information (see eg. Psychiatry is sustained by its professional institutions, such as the American Psychiatric Association (see eg. previous post ) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (see eg. previous post ). another previous post ). previous post ).

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Global News - Mental Health News

MARCH 12, 2025

The new guidance is meant to inform healthcare providers on the circumstances under which the Mental Health Act can be used to obtain involuntary treatment for a patient.

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Mad in America

JUNE 25, 2024

My own experience with forced medication under Kendra’s Law as a child informs my opposition to such practices. This system would empower individuals to make informed treatment decisions in collaboration with trusted caregivers. But people shouldn’t be medicalized without their own prior and informed consent.

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