Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures. “I Authored by psychiatrist Marshall Garrick, this article provides a window to the cultural values of psychiatry, and how self-serving rationalizations are considered artful diplomacy.

Genetics and mental health 136

Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 136

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. The anti-hero of the novel holds a preference for the perfect conception of himself.

Self-awareness 135

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

Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. D reaming isa vitalpart of our existence, essential to memory consolidation and emotional processing. On average, their mental outlook improved by 36%.I

Sleep and mental health 99

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 99

Mad in America

MARCH 7, 2024

Documents from the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service state that Patient A – who has since died – was vulnerable due to a variety of mental health conditions Dr Sessa was aware of.

Self-awareness 103

Self-awareness 103

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. As these terms become ubiquitous on social media, they play into the hands of a culture that shuns self-improvement and coping skills.

Resilience and coping 141

Resilience and coping Self-awareness Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health 141

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We risk increasing this person’s depressed mood which in some cases can result in the person self-harming and then the EUPD diagnosis follows shortly after. In the meantime, I am a big believer on the mind-body relationship to healing, surrounding one-self with positivity and stories of hope and healing and avoiding any naysayers or doom.

Trauma and the brain 141

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Personality disorders Self-awareness 141

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

They were also less emotionally regulated and had less awareness of their emotions, and they reported a lower quality of life, compared with the control group. The self-esteem-boosting craze of the ’80s also didn’t amount to much —and later research questioned whether having high self-esteem is even beneficial.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy 118

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 118

Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

You might lose months of memory and some loss of self-esteem. Simply becoming aware of the concept is a start. Programs are rarely aware that while what theyre doing may be well intended their actions and treatments may be harmful or at least miss important marks. You would likely expect to die. You might even become catatonic.

Hospitality 78

Hospitality Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Self-awareness 78

Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2024

It reeks of colonial saviourism, perpetuating the modern rhetoric that mental health was ignored in traditional societies and that only modern societies, with their enlightened ways of looking at the self and the world, give importance to it and therefore, should serve as the champions of expanding this cause worldwide.

Self-awareness 127

Self-awareness Aging and mental health Education 127

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Psychiatry asserts that it has the medical authority to deem certain people “mentally ill,” and that such people can be forcibly treated because they suffer from “anosognosia” and thus lack awareness that they are ill and in need of treatment.

Legal 145

Legal Self-awareness Global mental health Hospitality 145

The Anxiety Guy

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Guilt and anxiety often tend to follow one another in an endless loop of self sabotage. Well explore why gratitude feels so difficult when your nervous system is on high alert and why self-judgment only makes things worse. That’s where today’s anxiety guy podcast comes in. If so, youre not alone.

Self-awareness 81

Self-awareness 81

Mad in America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — otherwise known as the American dream.

Legal 133

Legal Self-awareness Education 133

Sanity Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Mindfulness is a psychological and spiritual practice and a basic human ability to bring awareness to itself. It helps us t o rebuild our lives after the breakup and repair what’s broken inside by being aware of our own pain and suffering. And how applying mindfulness can help us to get over a painful phase of our life.

Self-awareness 98

Self-awareness 98

Mad in America

MARCH 29, 2024

The hidden message, that I absorbed without knowing, was that you had to take on a special role, such as being a doctor, because being your authentic self was dangerous. Unconsciously, my soul knew that this role wasn’t my authentic self and rebelled against me trying to fit in and act the part. I never rebelled.

Self-awareness 111

Self-awareness 111

Mad in America

AUGUST 1, 2024

My anecdotal explanation is that psychologists and psychiatrists are more concerned with self-preservation and their own ego, despite the latter actually being medical doctors. The answer lies in the fundamental nature of any tribe, band or clan; self-sufficiency. What is the purpose of awareness?

Aging and mental health 122

Aging and mental health Self-awareness Agriculture Emotional intelligence 122

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

No-way-out by J “Mental distress is a portal to self-actualisation, providing a gateway into inner-consciousness…[it] is only labelled as an ‘illness’ because of how we have been conditioned to understand it within western culture.” Footnote This research was completed with the Alef Trust in 2024.

Self-awareness 114

Self-awareness 114

Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Anniek: I had cleared six months of time to make sure I had time for optimal self-care. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

Sleep and mental health 142

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Neurotransmitters and mental health Resilience and coping 142

Mad in America

DECEMBER 26, 2023

By the time most of us reach adulthood, we have not only lost the capacity to regularly access states that we achieved routinely as infants, but we have also lost awareness of that loss.”

Self-awareness 100

Self-awareness 100

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Telling people theyre destined for the worst possible outcome can create a self-fulfilling “nocebo” effect, reinforcing the very dependence they seek to escape. Respect for autonomy and self-determination in the context of informed consent is at the heart of the patients rights movement. Trust people to find their own way.

Self-awareness 130

Self-awareness Education Pharmaceuticals 130

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The gravitas of this was, of course, completely unknown to my seventeen-year-old self when I entered my therapists office in 1991 and sat down, speaking hesitantly to her about my life and the recent breakdown. I was also keenly aware that following her lead would contain both she and I and the therapy. Someone was lurking.

Self-awareness 78

Self-awareness Aging and mental health Manufacturing 78

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It constitutes a conceptual resource—a tool that offers another kind of understanding that is not confined to the malfunction-perspective often emphasized within the biomedical paradigm, which has the danger of functioning as a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is why it is sometimes important to also listen to what they are pointing towards.

Construction 144

Construction Childhood trauma Self-awareness Education 144

Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Institutionalization refers to the establishment of large, bland, uniform, impersonal, hierarchical, bureaucratic, and coercive entities that increasingly rule our lives. Maybe one of us will have a chance one day to talk with Mark Vonnegut, and ask him about the source of that Krishnamurti quote.

Genetics and mental health 145

Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Education Construction 145

Mad in America

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The first prerequisite is to feel good about yourself, activating a process of awareness that allows you to acquire andstrengthen your self-esteem, break down stigma and open up to dialogue, even witha critical spirit. My role as ESP, therefore, leads me towards external contexts and towards self-recognition!

Self-awareness 97

Self-awareness 97

Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child offers this definition of EF skills: “Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. A good starting point is the term “executive function.”

Self-awareness 102

Self-awareness Autism spectrum Education 102

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.

Self-awareness 145

Self-awareness Resilience and coping Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 145

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.

Trauma and the brain 120

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Legal Technology 120

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I Gretchen didn’t take the cue to move on from the self-injury talk, and kept pushing, and centering the responsibility for my ‘safety’ in others, rather than myself. Right now self injuring is helping.”

Sleep and mental health 130

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

Mad in America

MARCH 12, 2024

Mental health awareness is a movement that has everyone seeking treatment and support for their “mood disorders” and “personality disorders” and “neurodivergency”, but this system isn’t leading to wellness—it’s impeding it. Psychiatric verdicts are not just the property of those who deliver them.

Genetics and mental health 119

Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 119

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 2, 2025

In 2025, as mental health awareness continues to grow, counseling is playing a more prominent role in education. Counselors also assist students in identifying and eliminating self-destructive habits like overthinking and negative self-talk. Why is counseling important?

Resilience and coping 52

Resilience and coping Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Breathing techniques 52

Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

Moore: If these people are aware that anyone can go and find that information, and they’re obviously happy to accept industry money, and for it to be presented as public information, do they not think it’s an issue? I continue to do these studies beating on this drum that self-reporting conflicts of interest doesn’t work.

Genetics and mental health 143

Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness Legal 143

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

I was a shell of my former self, unable to think, staring off into space; all while trying my best to care for my family. Taking my family away Just as I was feeling as though I were myself again, my children were removed from me in emergency custody hearings that I hadn’t even been aware of.

Trauma and the brain 126

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 126

Child Mind Intitute

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

At the Child Mind Institute, we are dedicated to understanding how the brain develops and identifying ways we can support children and adolescents in building mental health awareness and resilience. Building Self-Awareness Journaling encourages introspection, helping teens understand their motivations, values, and triggers.

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Resilience and coping Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Technology 59

Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Clients should be well aware of the responsible boundaries separating them from their therapist. ” Yet, all the elements describing that cursed disorder, except for the tendency to engage in random fights with strangers, appeared to mirror my own self. It was a wholly unfamiliar dynamic they had never encountered before.

Eating disorders 112

Eating disorders Bipolar disorder Self-awareness Personality disorders 112

Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. Although a growing number of people are aware of problems with psychiatric treatment, what remains taboo is challenging fundamental assumptions that equate mental health concerns with biomedical disorders.

Trauma and the brain 111

Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model 111

The Anxiety Guy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

When you can begin differentiating a ‘lower self’ (inner child) idea from a conscious more updated idea, you will be well on your way to healing the roots of anxiety. Are your anxious thoughts and feelings stemming from past conditioning or from your present-day awareness? Notice the sensations in your body.

Self-awareness 52

Self-awareness Childhood trauma Breathing techniques 52

Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

But I give you access to my professional perspectives and reflections, in the hope and belief that you will be able to use them for increased self-awareness and personal growth. I don’t change the way you think. I am not seeking a cure for cognitive or emotional disorders.

Sleep and mental health 127

Sleep and mental health Construction Healthcare Self-awareness 127

Sanity Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

Research says self-improvement focuses on overall well-being in life and at the workplace. Continuous focus on self-improvement enhances concentration, productivity, time management, self-worth and self-esteem. By focusing more on self-improvement by enhancing your self-awareness.

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Self-awareness 52