Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles. As our society embraced the use of SSRI antidepressants, disability due to affective disorders dramatically increased.

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

Moncrieff, 2008 ; Moncrieff, 2018 ). But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. Ghaemi thinks glutamate is the culprit in schizophrenia, however, which is unaffected by antipsychotics ( Ghaemi, 2022 ).

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

Torrey is a psychiatrist and a researcher on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In research circles, he’s known as the founder and executive director of the controversial Stanley Medical Research Institute, which has spent more than $550 million on biological research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder over the past few decades.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

For a period of four years, from 2014 through 2018 during his decline and overwhelm, Matt was prescribed five different antidepressants layered on top of one another without tapering, which ignited a cycle of adverse reactions. Thankfully, the owner of the office, a renowned bipolar expert, said he could take Matt. It was just so sad.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The study focused on patients with a bipolar disorder diagnosis in Hong Kong. The researchers included all patients at least 15 years old who received their first bipolar diagnosis between 2002 and 2018. Lithium for bipolar disorder and risk of thyroid dysfunction and chronic kidney disease. Correll, C.

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Mad in America

JULY 6, 2024

To clarify this concept better, “psychosis”, “depression”, “anxiety”, “bipolar disorder”, “ADHD” and more are not disorders of organic or genetic origin, caused by “imbalances” in brain chemicals, and psychotropic drugs do not have the function of restoring any balance.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS Popular Books Relevant to Mental Health Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover; Random House, 2018 352 pages; $12 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edmund S. Could some of the characters meet criteria for bipolar disorder? Posttraumatic stress disorder? From a clinical lens, the book offers a buffet of psychopathology.

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ADDitude

APRIL 25, 2025

Clinicians then misinterpret their outward challenges as signs of mood disorders or bipolar disorder, which is a stigmatizing mental health diagnosis. Association of stress-related disorders with subsequent autoimmune disease. Psychiatric symptoms across the menstrual cycle in adult women: a comprehensive review.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By the time I’d transferred to Dr. B in 2017, he had backed off using opioids in his practice and he told me I needed to go to a pain clinic, which I did in 2018. Though I didn’t tell Terry my life story, I mentioned that I’d been misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder back in the late 90s. I chose the latter.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 19, 2025

October 2018. Wellness Interventions for Life’s Demands (WILD-5 Wellness): Exercise, Mindfulness, Sleep, Social Connectedness, and Nutrition – Improving Mental and Physical Health Through Holistic Daily Behavior Change. Poster session presented at US Psych Congress Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Psychiatry cites twin studies as the gold standard in support of the discipline’s disputed claim that psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are genetically based brain disorders only minimally influenced by environmental factors or “triggers.” Bouchard, Jr.,

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NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A. 2016) and reports a higher (70%) degree of suicidal thoughts (Cassidy, Bradley, Bowen, Wigham, & Rodgers, 2018). Bateman, 2012).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A review of poisonings among children age 5 and younger found that opioids were the leading cause of fatal poisonings between 2005 and 2018. Rebecca started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of two and was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and pediatric bipolar disorder.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 19, 2025

Komrad, MD, DFAPA May 7th 2025 Solemnly Renouncing Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Response to Vincenzo Di Nicola Ronald W. Komrad, MD, DFAPA May 7th 2025 Solemnly Renouncing Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Response to Vincenzo Di Nicola Ronald W.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 13, 2025

2 In his September 1, 2018, blog titled “Achillean Romance With Fangs,” D.N. A patient comes to understand that they did not seek the right help when they should have, and then may try to redeem themselves with pursuing what is more likely to help. Bryn described “Writing Redemption Arcs.”

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