Mad in America

JULY 9, 2025

Then there was an intervention, and I went to rehab in Thailand in 2019. So you sit there wondering, Do I go to the hospital? I was on cocaine and OxyContin, on Adderall, tons and tons of benzos, powders—everything. Testosterone injections, you name it. I needed someone to say, “It’s going to be fine.” So what the hell do you do?

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

APRIL 26, 2025

For example, in recent years P&As have exposed and opposed excessive use of restraints at New Yorks Bellevue hospital , over-representation of Black residents in psychiatric incarceration in Californias Alameda County , and abusive forced stripping in Washington facilities. Yet she had no idea what a P&A was.

Aging and mental health

Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

Gender inequality linked to brain structure Moderate Drinking Linked to Brain Iron and Cognitive Decline First of its kind in UK - Innovative New Brain Health Centre First in Europe to acquire latest MEG Technology from MEGIN © 2025 Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX Freedom of Information Privacy Notice Copyright Statement (..)

Genetics and mental health

Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 24, 2025

Schools encouraged to be part of major wellbeing survey for 9-18 year olds British and Japanese young people make mental health recommendations for public health emergencies BMI, blood pressure and physical activity levels in childhood linked to brain differences Radical rethink of mental health support for adolescents needed – new study Shaping the (..)

Genetics and mental health

Dr. Deb

JANUARY 24, 2024

2) quizzes (3) read-aloud visits (3) resiliency (5) schizophrenia (4) screenings (1) SEL (1) self help booksteachers (1) self-care (9) self-esteem (18) service animals. (1) 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1) 1) traumatic injury (1) treatment (59) treatment. (1) 1) trends (30) triggers (2) violence (14) volunteering (1) well-being (92) well-being. (20)

Self-awareness

ADDitude

JUNE 10, 2025

3 Undiagnosed and untreated individuals face a higher risk of fatal car accidents, unwanted pregnancies, serious injury and hospitalizations, job loss, academic interruptions, self-harm, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and more. World J Clin Cases 2019 ; 7(17): 2420-2426. years, on average. The British Journal of Psychiatry.

Education

Mad in America

JUNE 14, 2025

A 2019 Mad in America report by Robert Whitaker and Derek Blumke, using the agency’s own statistics, found that rates of suicide have skyrocketed since 2006 in particular, when the VHA began implementing suicide prevention protocols that include routine screening, diagnosis, and often, SSRI antidepressants as a first-line treatment.

Education

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

ECT has also not met the scientific criteria for effectiveness, as a comprehensive 2019 review of the research on ECT effectiveness reported that there have been no randomized placebo-controlled studies since 1985; and those studies that were done prior to 1985 are of such poor quality that conclusions about efficacy are not possible.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. When we did a recent broadcast, we looked at the numbers from 2019: 35.5 He was taking 90 milligrams a dayfar above the recommended dosage. And then he started abusing it, taking more and more. The hallucinations, the mood swingsit all escalated.

Insurance

Mad in America

APRIL 28, 2025

But by the time I returned to the UK in 2019 after a few years in Denver, Colorado, I had done a complete U-turn in my thinking about psychiatry, and what had happened to me during the two decades when I was a psychiatric patient. But within a year of publication, I was back in hospital, relapsed apparently.

Trauma and the brain

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Previous Recipients 2005 - Stephan Heckers, MD - McLean Hospital 2006 - Shitij Kapur, MD, PhD - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 2007 - Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, PhD - National Institute of Mental Health 2008 - Alexander Neumeister, MD - Yale University and  Ramin V. All applications must be submitted on-line.

Hospitality

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Sheth, MD, PhD - Baylor College of Medicine and Kelly Rowe Bijanki PhD - Baylor College of Medicine                                                                                                              2024- Friederike Holze, PhD - University Hospital Basel and Peter Gasser, Dr. Med.

Hospitality

Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2025

I n my article, What I learned as a Moderator for an Antidepressant Taper Support Group, I described working alongside psychiatrists as a licensed clinical social worker in a psychiatric hospital for 18 years and never hearing one word about withdrawal. Then I tried to go off Cymbalta and all hell broke loose.

Manufacturing

Dr. Deb

MAY 15, 2025

2) quizzes (3) read-aloud visits (3) resiliency (5) schizophrenia (4) screenings (1) SEL (1) self help booksteachers (1) self-care (9) self-esteem (18) service animals. (1) 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1) 1) traumatic injury (1) treatment (59) treatment. (1) 1) trends (30) triggers (2) violence (14) volunteering (1) well-being (92) well-being. (20)

Self-awareness

Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Effectiveness of School-Based Mindfulness Training How Mindfulness May Improve Body Satisfaction and Mood Mindfulness for Teachers - "Finding Peace in a Frantic World" Our Mental Wellness Series New book – Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology © 2025 Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX Freedom of Information (..)

Genetics and mental health

Behavioral Collective Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Origins and Objectives of PFA/SBT in Surrey School District [3:22] The PFA/SBT project began in 2019 with a Challenging Behaviors Conference organized by the Director of Instruction in partnership with the Pacific Autism and Family Network and BC Children’s Hospital. Tina Gunn Yeah, we started back in 2019.

Education

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

How can we build a truly healing hospital that would love, nourish and heal all within, including the professionals who work there? The existing mental health hospitals are radically failing our communities despite the dedication and hard work of those working within them. What do we mean by healing?

Hospitality

Mad in America

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A new article published in BMC Medicine finds that antidepressant use in two Scottish regions increased 27% between 2012 and 2019. The current work, headed by Vita Brisnik of LMU University Hospital, also finds long-term use of antidepressants (2 years or more) increased during the same time period.

Hospitality

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

From The Times : “In 2019 Horowitz and Professor David Taylor, the director of pharmacy and pathology at the Maudsley Hospital in London (who went through his own ‘strange and frightening and torturous’ withdrawal), co-authored an article in the Lancet Psychiatry journal arguing that tapering should happen far more slowly than official (..)

Hospitality

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital. None of this sat well with me, but coming home from the hospital completely overly medicated and numb, I was in shock, disassociated, and unable to question the doctor’s theory.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He was admitted to hospital several times and spoke openly about his experiences with the aim of improving the treatment that people with autism receive when they meet the psychiatric system. At the beginning of 2019, he was subjected to belt fixation at a psychiatric ward. This should be done in all countries.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

In 2019 it was, arguably conservatively, estimated that one in six South Africans suffered from anxiety, depression, or substance-use disorders, while fewer than a third of them had access to mental health treatment. Her mother Patricia has been diagnosed with bipolar I and is currently in hospital. The nurses laugh, she tells me.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The psychoses returned in 2019 but in a new form: now, I was convinced I had a chip implanted in my brain — a chip controlled by a battery of neuroscientists sitting in various state-of-the-art labs in the US, and these scientists controlled my thoughts, actions, speech, physical ailments, etc. Soon after that, my mind became clearer.

Technology

Real Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

A significant number of thise people need ongoing treatment for psychosis to stay out of the hospital. 2019 May 1;76(5):499-507. Their course is complicated by cannabis use disorder. Contrary to the hype addiction can occur to cannabis with all of the associated problems. PMID: 40326094. JAMA Psychiatry. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.4320.

Legal

Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

In the first few days of 2019, I was really struggling, so I went back to the VA for two psychiatric holds for observation. The nightmare that was my inpatient hospitalization, combined with my newly developed distrust of those around me, exacerbated my previous traumas. Unfortunately, my situation only continued to decline.

Trauma and the brain

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MAY 8, 2025

College member Dr Colin O’Gara, head of addiction services at St John of God Hospital, was quote in an article in the The Irish Times on 3 May entitled ‘Generation gamble: the invisible addiction crisis gripping Irelands teenagers’ Read the full article on The Irish Times here.

Hospitality

ADDitude

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

February 25, 2025 Spravato, the esketamine nasal spray approved in 2019 for use alongside oral antidepressants for treatment-resistant depression, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a standalone monotherapy with no oral medication required.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MAY 12, 2025

It featured College members Dr Mas Mohamad, psychiatrist with the specialist perinatal mental health team at the University Maternity Hospital Limerick, and Dr Catherine Hinds, a perinatal psychiatrist who leads the service at the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street in Dublin. In hindsight, I got there just in time.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 16, 2024

He was hospitalized and medicated and told that this psychosis was something he would have to live with for the rest of his life, a biological abnormality. I was receiving assurances from Heaven itself that I needed to feel ashamed no longer, that I was loved for eternity. Everything that existed was holy. Tenney, L, J. In Beresford, P. &

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 3, 2025

Ten years later I would go crazy and start my own search for meaning in the madness, until I came across the biography of Brian Wilson, leader and composer of the Beach Boys, to whom I dedicated this chapter in one of my books published in 2019. Thank you, Brian Wilson, the world is a better place because of your music.

Legal

Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

by Dr Anna Baverstock and Dr Jess Morgan Dr Anna Baverstock is a consultant community paediatrician at Somerset Hospitals Foundation Trust and lead for senior doctor wellbeing @anna_annabav Dr Jess Morgan is a paediatrician and Dinwoodie RCPCH Clinical fellow @doc_bipolar The workplace experiences of doctors in the UK continue to be very concerning.

Sleep and mental health

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Sheth, MD, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine and Kelly Rowe Bijanki PhD – Baylor College of Medicine 2024- Friederike Holze, PhD – University Hospital Basel and Peter Gasser, Dr. Med.

Hospitality

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Previous Recipients 2005 – Stephan Heckers, MD – McLean Hospital 2006 – Shitij Kapur, MD, PhD – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 2007 – Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, PhD – National Institute of Mental Health 2008 – Alexander Neumeister, MD – Yale University and Ramin V.

Hospitality

Solara Mental Health

JUNE 10, 2022

In fact, according to a National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2019, 26.9% Those injured during combat, hospitalized, or experienced trauma have a greater risk for increased drug or alcohol use. Veteran substance abuse is a significant issue throughout the United States. of veterans abused illicit drugs.

Bipolar disorder

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

MPS Positions : MPS Member, APA Fellow Personal Statement : In clinical practice, I have worked in a number of different settings, including a hospital-based IOP, solo private practice, a managed care organization, and now a school-based OMHC and a non-public level V school serving students with Autism.

Education

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MARCH 7, 2025

She set up the Cavan/Monaghan CAMHS in 2000 and worked there for 19 years until December 2019. Although retired from my substantive post, I continue to work as a liaison psychiatrist in Tallaght University Hospital for 2 days per week for the past 5 years. What do you find most enjoyable about your work/profession?

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

I n preparation for a course on clinical community psychology at my home university in Caracas, Venezuela, I stumbled upon a tweet from an anonymous student complaining about a family of pigs that had occupied the psychiatric hospitalization ward where he was supposed to develop his clinical training. His explanation left me distraught.

Hospitality