Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In a study of patients with migraine headache, patients were aware that they might receive a placebo or an anti-migraine medication called Maxalt. Here, the balancing act is self-preservation, if you will, versus patient autonomy. After all, we do call these medications “anti-depressants”, right?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. So even their self-judgment is not proof of the merits of the drugs, even for themselves, because they lack knowing what would have been possible for them.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. Its different elements often exhibit tremendous growth and vitality in their isolation, but they appear to have little awareness of each other. For the same reason, it remains painfully fragmented and siloed.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Not necessarily, but they should, in the interest of holistic and compassionate treatment, be aware of how these factors influence and affect physical functioning. Beyond “Diagnose and Prescribe” Rigid adherence to the model of “investigate, diagnose, prescribe” limits patients’ treatment options to those that are mainly pharmaceutical.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Awareness of this potential should, at least, have a role to play in guiding how services approach ‘sustaining remission’, and the advice they offer.

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Mad in America

JULY 23, 2024

Like the phenomenon of repression that is the basis for Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, people really can have no conscious awareness of things that simultaneously are retained somewhere in their nervous system. For men believe in the truth of that which is plainly strongly believed.”

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

of the patients, and the authors said that their study “provides new evidence to suggest little to no relation between use of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and self-reported suicidal ideation.” Insel is aware of this and promises to investigate why mental health outcomes in the United States are so poor. This is mendacious.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

It’s affected everything from the obvious things such as the way I was able to build resilience and understand my own mental, emotional, and psychological strength, how I self-soothe, my curiosity, what I wanted to do in the world, my jobs, financial stability, and my relationships.

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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. And in today’s schools, there is no shortage of John boys or Mikeys. So what is our teacher, Miss Brown, to do? This is no good either. This constitutes science? This is medicine?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I said, “On paper everything’s great, but I’m struggling with this existential feeling of being 38, single, childless, increasingly aware of mortality.” I’m aware it could be interpreted as invalidating mental health issues, but that’s not my intention. Siem: What’s the checklist or algorithm you use for identifying false anxiety?

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

To imagine these people as having traversed these landscapes losing all their belongings and sense of self. The residents seem somewhat aware of this; however, it is the medicalization of their illness experience that they resist. To whom do we attribute the ability to care?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

Every doctoral student discovers this, and, equally, discovers that their success is going to depend upon becoming deeply immersed in the details of what is already agreed within their chosen, narrow, self-contained field of study.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of these studies, sponsored of course by a pharmaceutical company, was conducted by the Kansas University Medical School, Wichita branch, and I attended, along with a group of local psychologists, a presentation of this study in progress by one of the staff psychologists who was one of the researchers and CBT therapists.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. More aware of a need for humility.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In marketing any product, from laundry detergent to prescription drugs to luxury automobiles, marketers know the key is to keep it simple, and the pharmaceutical industry certainly has learned this lesson well. The goal of psychotherapy, however, was to speed the recovery and more importantly to keep the depression from returning.

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NAMI

JULY 23, 2024

My father decided my brother needed special care, given that he could not be self-sufficient. Im glad theres much greater awareness today about the need to openly address issues of mental health, but I think we still have a long way to go. I also hope that caregivers can prioritize self-care for themselves, too.

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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.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

But when your sense of self is built through other people, cutting them off is not that easy In a place like India, it’s very common to just keep people you hate close to you. Because of this, theyre often aware of problems in the psychiatric field that clinicians in Western countries remain blind to.

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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.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

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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.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Raising awareness about depression, screening for it, and teaching that its common but underdiagnosed, at first glance seem like good things. So its particularly easy to get them to adopt an inferior self-image.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. It gives us a way to evaluate success and failure, a structure for self-esteem. From fulfillment.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When you’re working with a client who has latched onto a metaphor, like the “broken brain” metaphor — which holds considerable cultural sway and is often endorsed by the psychiatric establishment and even pharmaceutical companies — how do you approach it? This heightened awareness leads him to a breakdown.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For decades, pharmaceutical behemoths like Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline the makers of Prozac and Paxil, respectivelyhave successfully suppressed mountains of clinical trial data that establish a link between SSRI antidepressants and suicidal and homicidal ideations and, in rare cases, murder and mayhem. I believe that I know the answer.

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