Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The Office on Women’s Health emphasizes psychosocial causes as being significant in PPD. Kelly Brogan , a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, reports significant concerns about brexanolone.

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Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood Aging and mental health Insurance 126

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 19, 2024

At this time, I also needed to pay for my second-year master’s programme and there was no money so I thought I would drop out, but God used someone to provide for me and I was able to pay and conclude my master’s programme in 2013. I have also learnt so many things about mental health and my hope for the future has increased.

Sleep and mental health 130

Sleep and mental health Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 130

Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Siem: The New York Times published a major article on February 2, 2013, detailing Richards story. Parents can keep their children on their health insurance until theyre 26, but in life-or-death situations, we should be able to get critical information.

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Insurance Sleep and mental health Legal Education 137

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.” In October 2019, during Matt’s move to a new apartment, I observed that Matt was emotionally paralyzed, unable to pack from lack of sleep.

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Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 130

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

I don’t think there’s enough actual oversight, whether civilian or governmental, of the mental health system, and it does a ton of harm.” In a 2005 paper , Gottstein wrote that the “involuntary mental illness system operates largely illegally.” Russell’s request was again denied.

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Legal Sleep and mental health Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals 138

Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. Similar results were found in an RCT done by Lex Wunderink, reported in 2013 in JAMA Psychiatry.

Genetics and mental health 142

Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 142

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 98

Mad in America

MAY 3, 2024

My baseline state on psychiatry’s drugs had become intolerable as early as 2013, causing severe pain, panic attacks, depression, anxiety, weight gain, fatigue, irrational behaviour, and a seemingly infinite supply of physical and psychological ailments. I didn’t, but that’s how it felt.

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Sleep and mental health Construction 134

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] Suicide risk assessment and intervention in people with mental illness. 4] Gøtzsche PC.

Aging and mental health 145

Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Pharmaceuticals Insurance 145

Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 7, 2024

A standard research technique to assess stress effects on blood pressure is to ask subjects to do mental arithmetic and it generally leads to a blood pressure effect like what the authors describe in this paper of 20 mm systolic or 10 mm diastolic. Access to the electronic health record can show long term trends. 2013 Dec;62(6):982-7.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 52

Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, 1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death. As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%.

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

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

DSM-5 (2013) moved away from listing specific events and focused more on the subjective experience, including responses to threats of death, serious injury, or violence. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows substantial reductions in mortality rates from infectious diseases that once caused widespread fatalities.

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Resilience and coping Self-awareness Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health 143

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And as we later found out, only 46% of the kids who died by suicide even had a known mental health problem. But I am still confused by what happened with the teen train track suicides in Palo Alto—first in 2009-2010, again in 2013-14, and yet again in 2015-16. Sleep hygiene can be used to ensure that that goal is met.

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Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Adolescent mental health 119

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. Number eight was my comment on the National Board of Health’s website. ” It is elementary knowledge that it is statistically completely wrong to adjust for something that is part of the causal chain.

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Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Pharmaceuticals 145