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Beyond Pharmacare

Mad in America

My first experience with Seroquel was in 2009 during my first night in a psychiatric institution. Cold hands gripped me, and a needle penetrated the weak flesh of my arm. My room filled with a dense fog. Unable to see through it, I slept for two days straight.

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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

Mad in America

Back in 2009 I was incredibly blessed to have a couple of my fellow patients who comforted me, listened to me and took care of me. In October 2009 I was discharged after 3 very long weeks and I quickly concluded that the ‘antipsychotics’ I had been forced to take were numbing my feelings and dulling my thinking in a debilitating way.

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The Mothers Fighting a Scandal Bigger Than Thalidomide: ‘We Were Told the Medication Was Safe’

Mad in America

From The Guardian : “In 2009, Emma Murphy took a phone call from her sister that changed her life. ‘At first, I couldn’t make out what she was saying; she was crying so much,’ Murphy says. ‘All I could hear was “Epilim.”‘

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Book: »Schizophrenie« in der Alltagssprache: Eine linguistische Begriffsgeschichte 1908–2009, by Yvonne Ilg

History Psychiatry

Dear Hmadness readers, Yvonne Ilg’s new book, “Schizophrenie” in der Alltagssprache: Eine linguistische Begriffsgeschichte 19082009, has just been published. It… Read more Book: Schizophrenie in der Alltagssprache: Eine linguistische Begriffsgeschichte 19082009, by Yvonne Ilg

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Worse Weather Pushes People to Social Media

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

billion Facebook and Twitter (now called X) posts between 2009 and 2016. But when it came to whether people engaged in social media in general, there was a dearth of evidence about how the environments that we live within and the weather conditions outside influence this really fundamental aspect of modern-day life, he said.

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How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Child Mind Intitute

Two-year-old children begin to act out scenarios with stuffed animals, dolls, or figures, and they initially gravitate towards realistic toys, using them to mimic familiar events (Smith, 2009). For instance, a two-year-old may play by having their stuffed dog walk and drink out of a bowl. Symbolic play emerges around age three. Singer, D.

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Can We Talk About Spirituality? The Medicalization of Transpersonal Experiences

Mad in America

Hodge (2009) believes that spirituality is often an important component of recovery and that a therapist can and should ask about the person’s spirituality and whether this is a support in the person’s life. Attachment in Religion and Spirituality. New York: Guilford Publications. Grof, S. & & Grof, C. Tarcher Putnam.