Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

But to her and everyone who saw me I remained seemingly coherent, intelligent and threatening with legal action if they tried injecting anything. That is the subjectivation I am keenly aware of and now capable of extricating myself and others out of. When will they self-reflect on the nature of their care? I was calm and loud.

Sleep and mental health 101

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Hospitality Legal 101

Mad in America

JANUARY 27, 2024

The deinstitutionalization era marked a shift toward community-based mental health care, highlighting the importance of individual choice and self-determination. To create a mental health system truly based on the ideology of recovery, self-determination and human rights there needs to be a change.

Self-awareness 110

Self-awareness Manufacturing Legal Healthcare 110

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Why, she can send an email home to John boy’s parents—make them aware of his deficits. And Miss Brown will not be made aware of this until the day of. A huge benefit for students, parents and teachers in having Adderall and Ritalin-like drugs prescribed to students is the accompanying legal document: the 504 plan.

Self-awareness 108

Self-awareness Education Technology Legal 108

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

I had some vague awareness that patients occasionally had a “bad reaction” to a pill, but I assumed that these reactions were one in a million and it never crossed my mind that something like permanent genital numbness could occur. As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature.

Pharmaceuticals 143

Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Construction Education 143

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Patients often find such a level of self-disclosure about the therapist’s problems burdensome and distracting, and I immediately felt less confidence in her ability to help. And too often he retreated to superficial, self-help maxims—“there is no such thing as perfect”—a “look on the bright side” attitude that trivialized my concerns.

Insurance 143

Insurance Aging and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 143

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Critical Thinking: Ironically, while a denial of painful realities can cause problems, an awareness of painful realities can fuel depression and anxiety. This shut down can result in complete immobilization or a fear of such immobilization, both of which are psychologically painful, and this can result in the pain of self-loathing and shame.

Poverty and mental health 145

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

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

For these residents, their ART booklet, provided by the local ART center is their only legal identity, which makes availing of any form of government mandated “care” other than their dose of antiretroviral medication difficult, as all such facilities now require possessing a national identity document (the AADHAR card).

Sleep and mental health 104

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 104

Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Prior to the SSRIs, psychologists and other mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, considered many depressions to be a self-limiting disorder, meaning that even without treatment, the depression will often subside perhaps due to favorable changes in the depressed person’s behavior or favorable environmental changes.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 77

Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 77

How Psychiatry Works

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Once operational, it provides internal self-regulation by producing emotions of pride and guilt according to positive and negative judgments made in the light of internal values. On the other hand, such strategies require a major added degree of self-sacrifice and self-denial. Humans are immensely social animals.

Self-awareness 52

Self-awareness Legal Personality disorders 52

Zencare

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Robbins got her start as a lawyer for Legal Aid Society, but shifted to be an inspirational leader through her first ted talk How to Stop Screwing Yourself Over. The Let Them theory is generally popular among therapists as a simple phrase to describe the complexity of setting boundaries and prioritizing the self.

Eating disorders 52

Eating disorders Dialectical Behavior Therapy Self-awareness Trauma and the brain 52

Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. I am ashamed to admit that several months passed wherein I did absolutely nothing, I suppose in a state of self-denial. In this article, we explore the affect depression has on loved ones and their struggles to help.

Sleep and mental health 52

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 52

Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Specific losses may be involved: loss of a loved one, a career, cherished illusions, material possessions, or self-esteem. Because everything is constantly changing, no continuous, solid self can be found or experienced. GRIEF & DEFEAT Loss of heart arises from a basic sense of grief and defeat.

Construction 52

Construction Self-awareness Aging and mental health Technology 52

Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The loss of a self-esteem, a loss of a loved one, the loss of a desired goal. With poor self-care, poor nutrition, you may end up stimulating or starting that feeling of low energy, of low interest in the world around you. Then you have a positive self-appraisal. Dr. Wehrenberg: Because depression comprises sadness.

Genetics and mental health 52

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

NAMI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For too long, I struggled with persistent anger and self-doubts because I wasnt able to connect the dots of how trauma was impacting my life. Ive published a book raising awareness about the link between mental health and being unsheltered. Therapy was a game changer for me; it saved my life.

Self-awareness 52

Self-awareness Legal 52

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.

Trauma and the brain 143

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 143

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our brain is not a computer, and our heart is not a pump, though the materialistic world view is pretty good at convincing us to believe we are devoid of Spirit, the divine creative part of us which is never wounded and if not eclipsed by legal or illegal substances, is able to always make a choice. Though, naturally, we can feel a victim.

Trauma and the brain 111

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Legal Sleep and mental health 111

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

However, once again in this report its destructive impact is neglected and actively obscured by psychology in the service of neoliberal ideology that advocates extreme self-interest, competition, over-consumption, and greed. The widespread destructive nature of neoliberalism on human welfare has been observed by numerous others.

Resilience and coping 128

Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 128

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The current approach to suicide prevention and supporting people in distress in Australia is a system of failure: the current approach is dominated by influential organisations and self-anointed mental health experts who work aggressively to perpetuate an unhelpful over-medicalised approach to distress.

Aging and mental health 141

Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 141

Zencare

MARCH 3, 2025

How to Offer Support During a Manic Episode If you are aware that a loved one or someone that you regularly spend time with has bipolar disorder, it might be helpful to know how to offer support in the event that you are with them when it happens. Poses a risk to themselves or others: If your loved one is trying to hurt themselves or others.

Bipolar disorder 52

Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Healthcare 52

Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The new drug application for MDMA-AT submitted by MAPS would have allowed MDMA legal use solely within MAPS’ proprietary psychotherapy protocol and only for individuals with a PTSD diagnosis. Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant.

Psychedelic therapy 114

Psychedelic therapy Legal Aging and mental health Self-awareness 114

Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

For over fifty years in America, pro-force family advocacy organizations, closely allied with the medical and judicial establishments, have worked to roll back the clock to the days when they had more legal control over the lives of those under their care. Advocates immediately found the broad eligibility criteria alarming.

Poverty and mental health 127

Poverty and mental health Legal Self-awareness Nonprofits 127

Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The police cannot and will not be a part of how people will come to stay at the respite—guests will need to call us themselves and make a decision based in self-determination to stay. Eligibility will be based on if someone is in crisis, not on sobriety, medication compliance, or if they are refraining from self-harming.

Sleep and mental health 104

Sleep and mental health Legal Hospitality Nonprofits 104

Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Aggression has components that occur on a strictly verbal level and aggression toward property or inanimate objects as well as self (2). Many states have terroristic threat statutes that can result in legal action before any physical contact occurs (see Minnesota statute below). It has a direct impact on you that can be long-lasting.

Aging and mental health 52

Aging and mental health Legal Self-awareness 52