Mad in America

APRIL 6, 2024

There is, after all, plenty of stigma against those experiencing mental ill-health in both richer and poorer societies. Data for 2008–19 ( Lancet ) Loosely, one can see here some correlation between recorded levels of disability from ‘schizophrenia’ in the first map, and the levels of use of psychotropic ‘medicines’ shown underneath.

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Mad in America

APRIL 10, 2025

I t is impossible to make it on your own within the current mental health system in the UK if you suffer from serious mental illness such as schizophrenia, chronic depression or bipolar disorder. Its more than a broken mental health system there, its hell. It used to be so different when I first arrived in 2008.

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Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Art therapy Hospitality 115

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 144

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. The Visual Economy of AIDS, 2008. References Campbell, David.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 119

ADDitude

MARCH 20, 2025

These results stand out amid the relatively scarce research data on ARFID , an eating disorder added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders ( DSM-5 ) in 2013. One ADDitude reader, Tiffany Bird, suffered decades of poor health before being diagnosed with ARFID in her late 20s.

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Eating disorders Nutrition and mood Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health 99

Mad in America

MAY 3, 2024

I first went to a psychiatrist in 2008 as the transition from being a university student to an adult life had proved quite overwhelming for me and resulted in feelings of anxiety and depression. Calling it ‘side effects’ is an astronomical understatement; my experience is that nothing can make you more mentally ill than a psychiatric drug.

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Sleep and mental health Construction 134

Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

A review of four newer studies, from 2008 to 2011, estimated that there were over 400,000 drug deaths in US hospitals. As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care.

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Aging and mental health Hospitality Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 145