Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights declared the work “groundbreaking”: In 2017, the Special Rapporteur issued a ground-breaking report addressing the “global burden of obstacles” in mental health settings and in the field of psychiatry. The obstacles are: 1. the dominance of the biomedical paradigm; 2.

Biopsychosocial model

Real Psychiatry

MAY 6, 2025

Any physician knows that no two persons with the same diagnosis are identical and yet there are scores of critics, administrators, politicians, and healthcare companies operating under that illusion. 2017 Jun;206(2):1101-1111. Epub 2017 Apr 10. 8, 774 (2017). All humans are still Homo sapiens. 2025 Feb 5:105. 116.192674.

Construction

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This is one reason healthcare providers monitor patients heart rate and blood pressure in the two hours after medication is administered. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2017, [link] 5 Zhdanava M, Pilon D, Ghelerter I, Chow W, Joshi K, Lefebvre P, Sheehan JJ. Thus, taking both medications may increase risk of high blood pressure.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In a similar way, tending to and valuing the basic needs of healthcare staff is paramount to patient safety. 7 We need organisations to recognise this inherent humanity and prioritise supporting healthcare staff in processing the inevitable emotional burden of care-giving. Medicina (Kaunas). 2019 Aug 30;55(9):553. Dyrbye, L.N.,

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Moreover, such drug-company antidepressant trials are dice-loaded in favor of the antidepressant (for example, using an inactive placebo rather than an active placebo which would more truly blind subjects); and drug studies submitted to the FDA are routinely short-term, usually around six to eight weeks. In the long-term, outcomes are worse.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. 2017: The latest psychiatric depression drug “breakthrough”: “Here we go again”. The patient self-administers the esketamine nasal spray under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a certified doctor’s office or clinic.

Healthcare

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. 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%! Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6) appeared first on Mad In America.

Healthcare

Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

2024 Around-America Tour For almost two decades, my “True Crime” story has, sadly, been my unique contribution to challenging the powerful influence that the pharmaceutical industry has on the global healthcare system. and on The Dr. Oz Show in 2018.

Legal

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Calming It Down In 2017, I began seeing the new psychiatrist, Dr. B, and he followed the clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for treating drug-induced movement disorders by prescribing a beta-blocker and then later, a centrally acting alpha agonist, or Alpha-1, also an antihypertensive. If and when something helped, it never lasted.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

JUNE 25, 2024

Universal Healthcare with Community Care: free, accessible, culturally sensitive care delivered by peers who are from the community and who understand the lived experience of SMI. calls “permitted dependencies” like public transportation to include healthcare and housing. We need systemic solutions.

Hospitality

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.

Aging and mental health

ADDitude

APRIL 25, 2025

Finally, we cant ignore the fact that many Black women dont seek care due to a well-founded mistrust of the healthcare system. ADHD often underlies the anxiety, depression, and substance use problems that bring women in contact with the mental healthcare system. Psychopharmacology, 232(16), 30913100. link] 6 Shanmugan, S., Loughead, J.,

Healthcare

Mad in America

AUGUST 23, 2024

After Mel passed [in 2017], a woman who was the coordinator of student affairs at her high school sent me a note acknowledging that Mel would have made a big mark in the world. I found a psychiatrist she liked, but when she turned 26, the psychiatrist thought that she could no longer be on our healthcare plan.

Hospitality

Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In 2017, a lovely doctor friend set up a movement called, Permitted to Pause encouraging doctors, nurses and healthcare workers to find and share ways of maintaining balance in their caring profession. Thats 4 healthcare workers every week. felt unwell as a result of work-related stress.

Healthcare

Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

In 2000, JAMA reported the US yearly estimated iatrogenic deaths: 12,000 caused by unnecessary surgeries; 27,000 caused by medication errors and other errors in hospitals; 80,000 hospital/healthcare facility acquired infections; and 106,000 “non-error” adverse effects of medication. had no clinically significant benefit over a placebo.”

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2012:April. Antipsychotic prescribing patterns in children and adolescents attending Australian general practice in 2011 and 2017. Comparative effectiveness review No. Prepared by McMaster University Evidence-based Practice Center under Contract No. HHSA 290 2007 10060 I.)

Neurotransmitters and mental health

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Treatment recommendations for healthcare providers. 2017 Sep 1;174(9):877-885. 2017 Sep 1;174(9):877-885. Epub 2017 Jun 29. PMID: 22176942; PMCID: PMC4321798. 11 Huang L, Wang Y, Zhang L, Zheng Z, Zhu T, Qu Y, Mu D. Maternal Smoking and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Offspring: A Meta-analysis. Pediatrics.

Eating disorders

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

2017; Armstrong, 2016; BBC, 2021a, 2021b; Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, 2017; Comiskey, 2018; Dobuzinskis, 2023; Dow, 2018; Doyle, 2022; Easton, 2020; Egan, 2018; Farnsworth, 2016; Gonzlez-Pando et al., Then many people want to get away from psychiatry and traditional mental healthcare. Dubey, 2017).

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Another Norwegian filmmaker wanted to have me on the panel when her documentary, Cause of Death: Unknown ,” 633 had world premiere in 2017 at the Copenhagen documentary film festival (CPH:DOC). You are attacking a religion and violating one of the most sacred taboos in healthcare. Her drug list is one of the worst I have ever seen.

Healthcare