Mad in America

JUNE 11, 2024

The present moment contains X, but you don’t want X; you want Y. We are either grasping for a completely different condition other than the one that ‘IS,’ or the present moment might be generally pleasant, but we can think of one or two things we might like to change. Ill Will and Aversion. Restlessness and Worry.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The authors note that the increased risk of CVD when taking ADHD drugs was mainly present for two conditions: hypertension and arterial disease. The present research found no increased risk for the use of ADHD drugs in developing arrhythmias, heart failure, ischemic heart disease, thromboembolic disease, or cerebrovascular disease.

Insurance 141

Insurance 141

Critical Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

But its their social experiences that determine how mental health problems present. This may be because of their past or present experiences. But most mental health problems are not due to brain abnormalities. People are limited by their bodies, true.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The special rapporteur himself and, by association, the United Nations, was consistently represented as unscientific while current practice in psychiatry was presented as intrinsically scientific and inherently ethical. The special rapporteur is frequently accused of presenting his claims in a biased, unscientific fashion. …[The]

Biopsychosocial model 145

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Reading these presentations, one can hear anger at the others’ ideas, and anger at not being heard. I’d like to present a sort of middle ground, where the views of both sides are respected, and understood to have origins in wanting to help people and reduce suffering. Overall, I hope to contribute something useful.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 123

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Insurance Pharmaceuticals Community support 123

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2025

Participants were presented with a list of 31 symptoms associated with antidepressant withdrawal in past research and asked which ones they experienced during their withdrawal. Participants were then asked to indicate if each of the symptoms they experienced during withdrawal was a new onset or if the symptoms were present before withdrawal.

Aging and mental health 145

Aging and mental health Education 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Researchers surveyed 900 patients aged 18 to 64 who were taking antidepressants and categorized them based on their past and present use. To be included in the present research, service users had to be commercially insured, aged 18-64 years, and have a diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder.

Pharmaceuticals 142

Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Insurance Healthcare 142

Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Aren’t you just presenting a caricature of what a compelling theory would look like? In my view , part of psychiatry’s breaking free from that paradigm will involve presenting a compelling alternative vision of mental health and healing. In a few words, what’s your alternative vision?

Pharmaceuticals 134

Pharmaceuticals 134

Mad in America

MAY 7, 2024

The study, led by Sofie Norlin Mølgaard of Copenhagen University Hospital, presented these 6 cases to highlight the diverse experiences of individuals attempting to taper off and discontinue antipsychotic medication. The authors acknowledge one major limitation of the current research.

Hospitality 115

Hospitality 115

Critical Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

But most presentations of mental health problems are not caused by brain abnormalities. People are being misled about the nature of mental illness. Of course brain abnormalities can cause organic mental illness, such as delirium or dementia.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Since going off psychotropic drugs is a frequent topic of conversation, we present it as a context for mutual aid in action. People who are presently suffering severe adverse drug effects, such as akathisia, might be better off tapering rapidly or simply stopping the drug. One size does not fit all.

Self-awareness 130

Self-awareness Education Pharmaceuticals 130

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Study 1, conducted between 1986 and 1989, was presented as a positive result in its published version. Yet this study was published as a positive trial after the researchers omitted the primary endpoint and presented only “preliminary results” using a different statistical method than they had used in the FDA’s records.

Pharmaceuticals 129

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

As one of us (Joanna Moncrieff) has explained in many publications and talks (including one at which Ghaemi was present as a co-presenter), psychiatric drugs can modify the manifestations of mental disorders by altering normal biological processes (the drug-centred model).

Bipolar disorder 145

Bipolar disorder Pharmaceuticals 145

Mad in America

MARCH 8, 2025

We covered subjects such as symptoms past and present, substance use, current prescriptions, work, residence, friends, hospitalizations, medication histories, etc. Another appointment was also set for the following week for the interviewer to return and complete the longitudinal set of questions, looking at the life lived.

Hospitality 138

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Critical Psychiatry

JANUARY 13, 2025

But most presentations to psychiatrists were accepted as having functional rather than organic causes. Before the psychopharmacology era, psychiatry did have a broadly conceived view of mental illness as being psychosocially caused. Of course this did not mean that physical factors were ignored. previous post ). another previous post ).

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Mad in America

JANUARY 5, 2024

’ However POLs who generally control the narrative in relation to psychiatric drug prescribing continue to be very much of the present.” Paid opinion leaders are a blot on medicine’s integrity, and we should make them a thing of the past.’

Education 121

Education 121

Mad in America

APRIL 27, 2024

Moreover, it was presented as the cumulative remission rate at the end of one year, which indicated that those who had remitted had remained well. The STAR*D investigators were of course duty bound to present results based on their protocol for assessing outcomes. But there is no such transparency in their 2006 report.

Self-awareness 145

Self-awareness Depression treatment 145

Critical Psychiatry

DECEMBER 18, 2024

My original idea was that the presentation Foudraine gave at a 2001 Critical Psychiatry Network conference , which I organised, would be included as a chapter in my book. As Jan said in the presentation and manuscript, becoming a mega-seller made him into some sort of Jesus Christ of psychiatry. previous post ). Laing (see eg.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

See , White Paper Presents Case Against Forced Treatment , Mad in America , April 27, 2023. I thought it would be beneficial to present the universally applicable information without the Alaska specific material to make it easier for people to use in their own locales, and the Report was born. With the Orwellian named C.A.R.E.

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Hospitality 98

Mad in America

JANUARY 19, 2024

New hires, once they have found the restrooms and enrolled in 401(k) plans, are presented with a panoply of digital wellness solutions, mindfulness seminars, massage classes, resilience workshops, coaching sessions and sleep apps. From The New York Times : “Employee mental health services have become a billion-dollar industry.

Sleep and mental health 109

Sleep and mental health 109

Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

None of the participants were withdrawing from SSRIs during the present research. Many felt less present in social situations and uncomfortable attending social events. Participants were excluded if their attempt to withdraw from SSRIs occurred more than one year ago and if they took SSRIs for less than six months.

Aging and mental health 132

Aging and mental health 132

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They were presented as helpful tools but with modest effects. When I was a psychiatric trainee, I was told these drugs were safe and effective. I assumed that meant long-term safety and effectiveness as wellafter all, I watched my professors and colleagues prescribe them to patients for decades.

Pharmaceuticals 143

Pharmaceuticals 143

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

When examining a patient, a doctor has an overwhelming amount of information presented to him. For instance, academics presenting the results of clinical trials of Paxil for depression or anxiety in children wrote about or showed slides containing rates of emotional lability on Paxil and placebo.

Pharmaceuticals 143

Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Construction Education 143

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In October, 2022, I had the opportunity to attend #CRISISCON in Kansas City, Missouri, and listen to a plenary presentation from Vibrant administrators about how great everything was going. This is also the same conference where I listened to a workshop presenter go on at length about the “suicide tumor,” but that’s a story for another time.)

Sleep and mental health 130

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 130

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Bipolarity Is Not “Bipolar Disorder” Bipolarity can be present in people who do not have bipolar disorder; i.e. their symptoms are not sufficient for that diagnosis. Circle A presents physical symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal. Circle C presents symptoms and markers of bipolar disorder.

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Mad in America

JULY 25, 2024

I saw that I was innocently bringing the distress of the past into the present and this was what dysregulating my nervous system now. Using these case studies, we will present this evidence to show that maladaptive repetitive thought leads to chronic mental stress. This is what rumination and anxiety really is.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

So as it turns out, this dietary mismatch between our evolutionary past and our technologically inundated present is a key factor not only in physical illnesses but also in mental health. By acknowledging the relationship between our past and our present, it becomes apparent that our environments have far more impact on our mental health.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

For one, it’s not even clear that what it’s dealing with is always pure and simple “mental health”—it is more accurate to say it is dealing with a range of social ills (poverty, anomie , the pernicious effects of social media, political division…and so on) which often present as a psychiatric illness, but which are not reducible to this category.

Insurance 126

Insurance Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Legal 126

Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Kids—especially teenage girls—are presenting with self-described Tourette’s, eating disorders, autism, and dissociative identity disorder (DID)—but suddenly, and in a way that doesn’t match how these diagnoses have previously been identified. Many suggest that it is time to retire this label.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy 144

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Childhood trauma Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 144

Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

While these red flags were present in the November 2006 article, any lasting questioning of the STAR*D results would likely have disappeared if it werent for the dogged investigative work of psychologist Ed Pigott. .” ” The AJP , by publishing this commentary, had now added its name to the scandal.

Pharmaceuticals 145

Pharmaceuticals Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 145

Critical Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But most of the presentations to psychiatrists are not caused by a brain abnormality, however much psychiatrists may have misled people that they are. It may have suited psychiatry to go along with the idea that mental illness is due to the brain. Of course brain abnormalities can cause mental symptoms.

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Mad in America

MARCH 4, 2025

The authors conclude: “In our opinion, the presented findings hold clinical significance, further enhancing the understanding of the relationship between antidepressant use and metabolic health. Additionally, all the participants were of European origin, limiting generalizability to other populations.

Genetics and mental health 138

Genetics and mental health 138

Mad in America

MAY 18, 2024

Voice-hearers challenge ourselves by exposing personal issues and, speaking through our experience, present a new perspective about ‘psychosis’ to professionals. A more human approach is adopted. Our community work brings us in touch with other social movements such as associations for human rights, antifascists movements, etc.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We all have the potential to be criminal or saint and cannot comfort ourselves by clinging to the hope that the darkness and evil we see is only present in others. In other words, the morbidity, evil and madness within Dostoevsky’s work are not just in ‘the other’.

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Self-awareness Biopsychosocial model Childhood trauma Sleep and mental health 135

Mad in America

AUGUST 1, 2024

They are willing to entertain my conjecture and have meaningful conversations where they have both educated me as well as seriously considered the observational and logical statements I present. First, it allows us to communicate how we assess the present, and I say assess because, ultimately, that’s what we are doing.

Aging and mental health 122

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Mad in America

MARCH 7, 2024

It is presented as a critical analysis of studies that have provided support for alternatives to the use of neuroleptic medication for psychotic patients, but in fact it presents a prejudiced and selective review of the scientific literature. None of the OD “findings” that the authors presented were true.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 10, 2025

For the first time, I can show up as myselfunmasked, honest, and present. These arent revolutionary ideastheyre basic human considerations. Now, in private practice, I work primarily with autistic and neurodivergent adults. But I cant help mourning the chance to have done this work in agency life, where advocacy felt more urgent.

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