Mad in America

JUNE 14, 2025

Organizers also referenced past efforts to spotlight this issue, including the Food and Drug Administration’s 1991 “ Prozac Hearings ,” as well as the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s 2010 hearings which highlighted links between psychotropic medications and suicide. “In Murphy Hospital in San Antonio. Photo credit: Leah Harris.

Education

Mad in America

JULY 12, 2025

Szasz’s libertarian political judgment for his involvement with CCHR was that it was the only organization that had money and access to lawyers and was, he recounted, “trying to free mental patients who were incarcerated in mental hospitals with whom there was nothing wrong, who had committed no crimes, who wanted to get out of the hospital.

Self-awareness

Dr. Deb

MAY 15, 2025

2) quizzes (3) read-aloud visits (3) resiliency (5) schizophrenia (4) screenings (1) SEL (1) self help booksteachers (1) self-care (9) self-esteem (18) service animals. (1) 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1) 1) traumatic injury (1) treatment (59) treatment. (1) 1) trends (30) triggers (2) violence (14) volunteering (1) well-being (92) well-being. (20)

Self-awareness

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.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 31, 2025

through profitable institutions like psychiatry, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies) and as an added benefit dampens the psychological responses that could subvert oppressive systems (e.g., Campus Pride; 2010. The pathologizing of mental distress creates an opportunity for more economic growth and benefit to a select few (e.g.,

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Indeed, as Pigott and collaborators reported in their 2010 paper , of the 4,041 patients who had entered the study, only 108 were well and still in the study at its end, a documented stay-well rate of less than 3%. The New Yorker, famed for its fact-checking, did so in a 2010 article.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One analysis in 2010 found that the benefit of antidepressant medications “may be minimal or nonexistent, on average, in patients with mild or moderate symptoms”; this leaves open the possibility that for severe depression, the drugs do provide a benefit, however. But they also need to stay in their place.”

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Ed Pigott and his co-researchers published an analysis in 2010 that showed of the 4,041 patients who entered the study, only 108 remitted, stayed well, and remained in the study to its one-year end. In evaluating any drug treatment, scientists also examine whether its benefits outweigh its adverse effects.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

Fortunately, the 2010 election campaign was launched the next spring and as a seasoned political activist I rediscovered a purpose in life, hitting the streets with leaflets alongside my fellow activists. The occupational therapist did not allow me back to my work as a nursery teacher for months and months and I languished in limbo.

Sleep and mental health

Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 23, 2025

These programs, such as outpatient treatment centers and partial hospitalization programs (PHP), offer a structured way to reinforce the coping skills learned in drug and alcohol treatment programs and address any challenges that arise during the early stages of the recovery process. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment , 36 (2), 131145.

Insurance

Mad in America

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Pigott and colleagues published their first deconstruction of the trial in 2010, and in that publication and several others, they laid out the protocol violations that had been used to inflate the remission rate. Thus, this scandal is old news. Rosenbaum, at that time, was being paid by Eli Lilly for his “thought leader” services.

Manufacturing

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Sheth, MD, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine and Kelly Rowe Bijanki PhD – Baylor College of Medicine 2024- Friederike Holze, PhD – University Hospital Basel and Peter Gasser, Dr. Med. Teegarden, BS – University of Pennsylvania 2009 – Susan L.

Hospitality

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Previous Recipients 2005 – Stephan Heckers, MD – McLean Hospital 2006 – Shitij Kapur, MD, PhD – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 2007 – Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, PhD – National Institute of Mental Health 2008 – Alexander Neumeister, MD – Yale University and Ramin V.

Hospitality

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

MPS Positions : MPS Member, APA Fellow Personal Statement : In clinical practice, I have worked in a number of different settings, including a hospital-based IOP, solo private practice, a managed care organization, and now a school-based OMHC and a non-public level V school serving students with Autism.

Education

Mad in America

JUNE 14, 2024

This was a mental hospital — my new home. The most desperate year By 2010, I’d been depressed for three years without respite. I’d thought about suicide every day, but until 2010, it was a daydream. In 2010, I felt a serious pull to take action. 2010 was different. He could feel my pain.

Sleep and mental health

Behavioral Collective Podcast

MARCH 7, 2023

Around 2010-2011, they added speech therapy, and added behavior services after that. So we added speech therapy I think about 2010, 2011. You know, either two hospitals, or clinics, or you know, wherever OTs are basically. Symbiosis started as an OT company, where they primarily provided OT services.

Autism spectrum

Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

For Watson, the focus on schizophrenia came when his son experienced a crisis at age 15, including a suicide attempt and a runaway scare, along with being diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for six months. The problem is underlying biology, not the operationalization of study design.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

Based on an earlier bio-babble theory that irregular convulsive action of the blood vessels was the cause of madness (and other diseases), Rush was an enthusiastic proponent of what was called “depletion therapy,” which included aggressive bloodletting, notes Gerry Greenstone in “ The History of Bloodletting ” ( BC Medical Journal , 2010).

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Does psychiatric hospitalization and medicine save the lives of suicidal patients? At least that’s the “theory” but let’s look at the facts. Baker et al.

Healthcare

Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I was then charged with first-degree murder, judged not criminally responsible (insane) in October 2005, and institutionalized in a mental health centre (forensic psychiatric hospital). I received an absolute discharge from the Ontario Review Board in December 2009, and have been off psychiatric drugs since September 2010.

Legal

Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

8,9,11-14 In 2019, a Norwegian study found that 52 of 100 consecutively admitted patients to a psychiatric hospital would have wanted a drug-free alternative if it had existed. 24 In the UK, psychosis pill prescriptions increased by 5% per year on average and depression pills by 10%, from 1998 to 2010. and 3.20, respectively.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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. Her hospitalizations started in 2010, less than a year after her book was published and before her planned NY Times interview. Forgetting.

Hospitality

Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 7, 2024

A young man named Dan Markingson was brought to our university’s teaching hospital in the throes of a psychotic episode. He was seen by the head of the schizophrenia program at the University of Minnesota, judged to be incompetent to consent to take neuroleptic drugs, and involuntarily committed to a locked unit in our hospital.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

One person exclaimed: I am not troubled by the increase in hospitalizations. The upside of the involuntary hospitalization numbers is that fewer people are likely dead of suicide. For Emily, her #988 call led quickly to involuntarily hospitalization that lasted for 50 hours. Many others are receiving the care they need.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 15, 2024

degree in 2010, and in 2016, he completed his psychiatry residency at Penn State. You don’t serve the hospital. He obtained his psychology degree in the year 2000, and following that, he obtained a certificate in CBT, and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at Universidade Evangélica de Paraná. He obtained his M.D.

Legal

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The virus is aerosolized presumably by coughing, sneezing, and toilet flushing and has been detected in the air around hospitalized patients (8). In a 2013 review, Norovirus was the second most common infection disease outbreak affecting psychiatric hospitals (13). Sources of Airborne Norovirus in Hospital Outbreaks.

Hospitality

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Chapman’s book attempts to blame ‘anti-psychiatry’ for the adverse social consequences (homelessness, drug use and rising rates of incarceration) that, in the USA, coincided with the closure of large asylums and hospitals from the early 1960s onwards. Disability & Society, 29 (7), 1117-1129. London: Allen Lane. Shakespeare, T.

Trauma and the brain

The Art of Healing Trauma

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Childrens Hospital, the hardware store. That time period in 2009 and 2010 was when I came the closest to committing suicide (although, the second closest I came was one year ago in 2018 because of more trauma at that time so the recovery process has not been altogether linear).

Trauma and the brain

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

People with ADHD are more likely to get into car accidents, 24 become hospitalized, and engage in self-harmthan are their neurotypical peers. 2010 Jan;51(1):58-65. 2010 Dec;118(12):1654-67. Epub 2010 Sep 9. Epub 2010 Jul 14. 2010 Sep;24(9):755-68. 15 ADHD shortens an individuals life expectancy by 7.5

Eating disorders

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Since 2010, trauma diagnoses among adolescents have surged, rising from about 3% in 2010 to over 8% by 2023. TIC has become so popular that its approach is boasted by most hospitals, schools , social services, correctional facilities. There have also been notable shifts in the types of traumatic events leading to PTSD.

Resilience and coping

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I am a 41-year-old resident of Newington since 2010, though I grew up in Middletown. I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital. Dubey, 2023). Qualitative Health Research , 10497323241303391.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

According to a recent survey of American adolescents, American teens reporting daily (or almost) in-person get-togethers plunged from 44 percent in 2010 to 32 percent in 2022. For years she’s grappled with depression, anxiety, a bipolar diagnosis, suicidality, two occasions when she came close to an attempt, and five hospitalizations.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

Thomas Insel, after retiring from his dozen years as director of the NIMH, spending 20 billion dollars on biological research, admitted that he had not been able to improve psychiatric treatment outcomes, reduce hospitalizations, or reduce suicide.

Genetics and mental health