Mad in America

JUNE 22, 2024

W ith all the recent coverage of the youth mental health crisis and the role of social media, little attention has been given to the way platforms like TikTok promote certain narratives about mental health—shifting not only the conversation but also the way mental health issues are actually experienced.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Childhood trauma 141

Mad in America

APRIL 23, 2025

Lehmann not only contributed to concrete changes in psychiatric treatment, but also helped build an international movement that continues to fight for human rights in mental health and psychiatry. They made me physically and mentally disabled, a zombie. Peter: Recovery from so-called mental illness? Peter: I was 27.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

668 A WHO study of 640 depressed patients found that those treated with medication had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill than those who weren’t treated at the end of one year. 119:24 Whitaker also mentioned the MTA trial ( see Chapter 9, Part Two ).

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Bipolar disorder Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health 145

ADDitude

MAY 18, 2025

While testosterone levels fluctuate slightly throughout the course of the day, their levels remain stable from the end of adolescence until roughly age 40. Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions. Epub 2009 May 25.

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Aging and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 89

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

I n a previous chapter I reported data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 11c that suicides for the years 2007 to 2017 increased by 30% while the teen rate (ages 10 to 24) increased by 56%! This is the first step in evaluating any new drug, trying out the drug on normal people without the health problem under consideration.

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. During his testimony in a court case in 2009, when an attorney asked him about his rank at Harvard Medical School, Biederman replied: Full professor. and 3.20, respectively.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 144

Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 144

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Linda Andre spent the last eight years of her life institutionalized at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where she died by suicide this month at age 63. In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen.

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Hospitality Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Education 98

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But back in 2009-2010, the years of the first of three “suicide clusters” in Palo Alto, teen suicides across America were rarer. And as we later found out, only 46% of the kids who died by suicide even had a known mental health problem. The numbers today truly are staggering. Pornography. at all, ever (“as if!”).

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Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Adolescent mental health 120