Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

However, studies since the 1990s , including a Cochrane review in 2017 , have found forced treatment to be ineffective, concluding that it doesn’t reduce rehospitalization or criminality, or improve social functioning, quality of life, or even treatment adherence.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The screening test recommended by the World Health Organization is so poor that for every 100,000 healthy people screened, 36,000 will get a false diagnosis of depression. The outcome of the US suicide prevention programmes has been the opposite of what was expected. For war veterans, the results have been very similar.

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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.

Technology 144

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Centre for Mental Health

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The nations mental health is getting worse, with an especially significant increase in levels of distress among children and young people over recent years. The health and social costs of maternal depression, anxiety, and psychosis were estimated to carry long-term economic and social costs of approximately 8.1

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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Mad in America

APRIL 23, 2025

The interview was initially conducted on February 27, 2017, and then updated recently for publication on Mad in Portugal. 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.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In 2017, suicide experts wrote in the Swedish medical journal that antidepressants, lithium, and clozapine prevent suicides, but several of their references were seriously misleading, and I noted that there is no reliable evidence that any drug can prevent suicide. [5] 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al.

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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. 2017 May 16;13:1331-1339.

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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

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%! Post-discharge suicides were most frequent in the first two weeks after discharge, the highest number on the first day!

Healthcare 109

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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. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Depression and antidepressants in Australia and beyond: a critical public health analysis (PhD thesis).

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 143

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Yuri Corrigan, Assistant Professor of Russian Literature at Boston University, in his 2017 book Dostoevsky and The Riddle of the Self , described his writing as: “a vast experimental canvas on which the problem of selfhood is continuously explored over the course of four decades.”

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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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Sleep and mental health Hospitality Aging and mental health Education 98

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. ECT is a psychiatric treatment for clinical depression and other mental health conditions in which electrical impulses are passed through a persons brain to cause brief seizures (Egan, 2018).

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

When the FDA analysed all the trials in 2006, there was a curve in their report that showed that the suicide risk increased right up to the age of 40. Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. ” This information is not entirely accurate.

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

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

These positive outcomes also include improved relational functioning, enhanced mentalization abilities, and increased quality of life. It is well established that ASD is linked to difficulties with an ability what Peter Fonagy and colleagues call mentalizing; a cognitive and emotional understanding of human behaviours.

Autism spectrum 40

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 15, 2025

Simple models, better predictors Lonely teens and their parents Low self-esteem at any age Treating the underlying cause Quick Take Suicide is a leading cause of death, and rates continue to rise. Low self-esteem is strongly correlated with suicidal thoughts regardless of age. Teenagers and young adults are particularly vulnerable.

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