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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She is also a writer and producer on Netflix’s 3 Body Problem.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

According to Moncrieff, mainstream psychiatry’s theory of drug action is that psychiatric drugs work by healing some underlying brain abnormality, thus supporting the concept of biological psychiatry. C urrently, antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs for a wide range of diagnoses, not just depression and anxiety.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

New Study Finds Connection Between Childhood Trauma and Psychosis In December, Ashley Bobak wrote about a new study which sheds new light on the profound impact of childhood trauma in the development of psychotic symptoms, particularly in treatment-resistant cases of schizophrenia.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I had headaches, brain fog, and fatigue. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. “Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that really isn’t you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

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The London Psychiatry Centre

JANUARY 3, 2025

When first-line treatments havent worked, sufferers and their loved ones often begin to wonder about the science of it all, asking: how does mental health affect our brain (and vice versa)? Read on to learn more about how mental health affects the brain. Brain function is key to both physical health and mental health.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. It has become obvious that we need to be better at addressing issues related to our psychological well-being. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. That has not happened.

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Mad in America

JULY 29, 2024

Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. This third part of this series on Neurodiversity consists of an essay by a therapist who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of the consequences for their job. The series is being archived here. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we—e.g.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

I will always wonder whether I got worse because of me or because of damage to my brain? T his is all written to the best of my memory. I worked, I had a life. But then I languished on disability for twenty-six years. Dystonia, kidney failure, possibly the hypothyroidism was my lot for serving as a drug whore for psychiatry.

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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. I was still only 17 years old but it was a great relief after the horrendous years I had spent at an all-girls boarding school. I felt humiliated—he had just denied my experience in front of 80 students.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A new review published in CNS Drugs analyzes the current available treatment guidelines for monitoring the potential negative side effects of clozapine. Shockingly, based on their inclusion criteria, the authors only found one existing guideline.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

“We need to describe how human beings unfold and become very beautiful when listened to. Listening shows that the nature of human beings is nothing like socialized content. If this is true, what are we doing sending people off into the eyeshades on their psychedelic journeys? Cloud Shadow With Red Diffusion Light During the Disturbance Period.

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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?

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

I was grappling with the pressures of balancing the needs of my teenagers, who were struggling in different ways, and my two preschoolers with developmental delays that no professional could explain — all while attempting to manage and overcome my own trauma from military service. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

A few weeks later, Matt’s wife informed me that his personality had changed drastically, sometimes sobbing for hours since he began the antidepressants. Thankfully, from my work as a music college professor, I understood the connection between music and the brain. The ER physician had given him Prozac. I could see his lifeless eyes.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2018, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research PTSD treatment in military veterans and continues to teach workshops for people with trauma-affected sleep. O n the Mad in America podcast today, we hear about the potential of lucid dreaming therapy to aid those struggling with post-traumatic stress.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In my last piece , I wrote about various neuro-rehab therapies I engaged in with Dr. J, the functional brain injury specialist, and that there came a point when my husband and I knew we’d reached the end of what medical science could offer me. I sat down to write this article with the experience of severe akathisia fresh in my mind.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping, by Cornelia Elbrecht, is an in-depth instructional textbook for the somatic therapeutic approach Guided Drawing. Based on leading edge understandings about trauma healing and the body (sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, etc.),

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Mad in America

AUGUST 16, 2024

I ’m sitting on the floor of my ex-boyfriend’s spare room, rummaging through my forsaken knick-knacks, when a vintage toy poodle emerges. Her faded velvet body feels soft and clean, the black boucle loops of fur on her head and paws are rough and scratchy. Instead, I find him sitting rigid on the couch, his eyes glued to the TV, nothing unusual.

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Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2024

Mandeville, LMFT – Scapegoat Recovery : “What is traumatic invalidation, and why is it important that adult survivors of family scapegoating know about this form of trauma? Questions to ask yourself As a scapegoat child, you may have had a lifetime of being invalidated, and you can’t help but carry that in to other systems.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“T he only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke. This is as true on a world stage as in a playground setting, where the bully holds sway over numerous kids who are too afraid to challenge their behaviour. It is how and why the tyrants prevail.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2024

All the information is based on my own experience of over six years with protracted withdrawal from antidepressants and post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD), which occurred after taking sertraline. In this article, I will outline what helped and what hindered my healing process.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

JANUARY 22, 2025

Gut-Brain Axis The gut-brain connection is critical to mental well-being. Imbalances in gut microbiota can contribute to anxiety, depression, and brain fog. Stress and Trauma Chronic stress and unresolved trauma disrupt brain chemistry and overall health. What Is Functional Psychiatry?

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The Art of Healing Trauma

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

This is the earliest somewhat coherent journal entry I can find that I wrote after the traumas as I was too ill and in too much chaos to write anything down for a couple years. This short story about a train trip shows how the many symptoms of PTSD combine to have a devastating impact to one’s Sense of Self.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in the UK. The author, Catherine Heseltine, is a psychiatric survivor, a mum to three wonderful children and a political activist in London. I want to start my story at the end. This holiday has been amazing. How heaven could possibly be more beautiful than this island I can’t imagine!

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Science has a pretty good grasp of how the body and brain work, right? Psychologists help people who feel bad and doctors prescribe medicine for broken brains with a lack of one or another neurotransmitter. The brain may be controlled by neurotransmitters, but neurotransmitters are affected by the life you live.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A dozen years ago I created a website, now extinct, called ‘Five Years’ From the David Bowie song of the same name (“We had five years left to cry in”). The idea was to see how my attitudes evolved over the coming five years: toward optimism, toward pessimism, or same-same. I was told, and believed, that I would be on this drug for life.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. T he one-size-fits-all autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, as configured in the Revised Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5-TR), is a clinical catastrophe. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Now Psych

MAY 20, 2024

This is an informational summary and not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. While the exact cause is still not clear, most experts point to a combination of genetics, brain chemistry and structure, and environment. How Common is Schizoaffective Disorder? What Causes Schizoaffective Disorder?

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The Art of Healing Trauma

JULY 22, 2021

Summary: In this article, I go over a number of cognitive difficulties I experienced after getting PTSD. In the Snapshot (story) part, I describe an experience of riding in the car after my third Somatic Experiencing Session. Then I talk about how my nervous system felt right after getting SE treatment. Terrible Short Term Memory (2.)

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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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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

What if we could more accurately predict someones response to a medication and use that information to prescribe a personalized ADHD treatment plan, instead of going through unnecessary trial and error? These are among the exciting possibilities associated with epigenetic research. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

There are a few potential causes and shared symptoms that may explain why these two disorders often coexist: Biological Factors: Both bipolar and anxiety disorders are linked to imbalances in brain chemistry. Have you noticed them feeling anxious during their manic episodes or perhaps experiencing panic attacks while feeling down?

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The London Psychiatry Centre

JULY 24, 2024

overeating or forgetting to eat) Survival mode is an informal term to describe when a person is affected by a prolonged stress response. The science of survival mode Survival mode is an informal term usually used to describe a state in which our nervous system is dysregulated often because of prolonged stress. Read on and we explain.

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Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

Defining Psychosis Psychosis is a condition that affects the brain, causing a person to experience symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking. It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking. It can also occur after a woman gives birth ( postpartum psychosis ).

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