Mad in America

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. I tried going back to school after the brain injury, but between the bipolar disorder and the head trauma, I couldn’t handle the stress and pressure anymore. I was told that only temporary, minor memory loss was possible, in rare cases, before starting ECT in 2013.

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Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2025

When the Covid-19 pandemic brought its cascade of anxiety, trauma, and grief, many Americans turned to antidepressants for relief. Antidepressants are Americas first-line treatment for the most common mental health problems, e.g., depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Recent studies and critiques are challenging the antidepressant status quo.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals 126

Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

Many people also believe the psychiatric drugs prescribed to treat depression are effective because they correct a verified biological causation for depression, a chemical imbalance in the brain. NIMH and psychiatrists have not always explained depression to be genetic (as “running in the family). A psychiatric textbook (Silverman, C.,

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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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.

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Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model Trauma and the brain Legal 145

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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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Evidently, in 2013 the autism criteria in the DSM-5 were intentionally expanded so that more children could qualify for the therapeutic services they required. Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. Nothing could be further from the truth. A range of symptoms to establish a diagnosis?

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