Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. It was written by David Hansen, a crisis worker at a person-centred, survivor-led mental health crisis service. I have tasked myself with mapping out my understanding of how therapy and mental health relate to politics. Is therapy political?

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Pharmaceuticals Genetics and mental health 108

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Apart from seeing and experiencing very unusual things, they also healed me from terrible stomach pain and trauma from my adolescence. It was in 2008 that I tried to enter the Abbey in Brussels, in order to get help. S omeone asked me the other day: but what has changed in terms of psychiatric treatment in twenty years? It’s all real.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Thus, establishment psychiatry is unthreatened by the idea that trauma and adverse childhood experiences are a cause of emotional suffering and behavioral disturbancesas long as these conditions are medicalized. F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

Technology 144

Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 144

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Wallace hanged himself in 2008 after withdrawing from a long-term medication, experiencing unbearable withdrawal symptoms and finding himself unable to regain relief (such as it was) in his old medication or new ones prescribed to him. OCD has a strong genetic component and was thought to be incurable.

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Aging and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain 139

ADDitude

MAY 8, 2025

With the benefit of hindsight, Candace Rollins* now sees the red flags of intimate partner violence (IPV) in her marriage. The belittling comments that put me in my place more and more over time, not letting me have friends over, driving a wedge between me and my family, explains Rollins, a mother of three in Virginia. What do you do?

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Technology 65