Mad in America
JUNE 17, 2024
It all started in 2014, less than a year after my honorable discharge from the Army, and shortly after returning home from Afghanistan, where I’d served as an Apache helicopter mechanic. M y brother Jesse sat next to me on the couch in my living room. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us. My mind raced.
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Epigenetic tags allow each of these cells to “read” only the parts of the DNA sequence that are relevant to them, in order to become skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, muscle cells, and other unique cells with the right structure and functions for their specific role. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.
The Anxiety Guy
MAY 2, 2025
When your body is holding on to fear energywhat trauma experts call uncompleted stress responsesyour brain scrambles to make sense of it. When your body is holding on to fear energywhat trauma experts call uncompleted stress responsesyour brain scrambles to make sense of it. Its the loop that keeps health anxiety alive.
Mad in America
JANUARY 22, 2024
In 2014, after years of struggling in the press, the courts, and the scientific community, a group of researchers finally gained access to at least some of the study data with GSK fighting against the light of day at every turn. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. Y ou bet it is!
The Art of Healing Trauma
NOVEMBER 17, 2019
This is the earliest somewhat coherent journal entry I can find that I wrote after the traumas as I was too ill and in too much chaos to write anything down for a couple years. This short story about a train trip shows how the many symptoms of PTSD combine to have a devastating impact to one’s Sense of Self.
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