ADDitude
JUNE 10, 2025
Research shows that ADHD shortens an individual’s life expectancy by 7.5 years, on average. 3 Undiagnosed and untreated individuals face a higher risk of fatal car accidents, unwanted pregnancies, serious injury and hospitalizations, job loss, academic interruptions, self-harm, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and more. Kuja-Halkola, R.
Mad in America
MARCH 19, 2025
His extensive body of work includes Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency (2010), Psychology and the Question of Agency (2003), and The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint (1999) books that challenge psychologys tendency to isolate individuals from history, culture, and power structures. Chronic underemployment.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
In 1990-92, 12% of the US population aged 18–54 years received treatment for emotional problems, which went up to 20% in 2001–2003. In evidence-based healthcare, we do not use interventions that do more harm than good, which psychiatry does. They are not medical diseases. Consider involving recovery mentors who have lived experience.
Mad in America
MAY 12, 2025
The report concluded that the regulatory agency (now The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, or MHRA) had become too close to the industry, with common policy objectives, agreed processes, frequent contact, consultation and interchange of staff. Original work published 1992) Kupfer, D. 2013, May 3). News release.]
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
In multiple studies linking childhood trauma to depression, The Truth About Depression (2003) reports that depression was from 1.6 In evaluating any drug treatment, scientists also examine whether its benefits outweigh its adverse effects. In antidepressant studies, depression remission is routinely reported for 25% to 35% of the subjects.
Mad in America
JANUARY 8, 2024
Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. Research on the ADM and placebo effects from 2003 to the present are extremely similar to the earlier research findings. This clinical opinion vs. science is also fundamental to many other of our quality and cost problems in healthcare today. The post Much of U.S.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 18, 2023
This included 3714 adolescents ages 13-20 who received a diagnosis of a psychotic disorder between 2003 and 2013 and had never before taken antipsychotic drugs. The researchers note that these services are provided to the entire population as needed and recorded in the registry based on their universal healthcare system.
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