Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. In 2019, just before the pandemic, I wrote and published a memoir titled Navigate Life with Dreams based on these dreams.

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Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 101

Child Mind Intitute

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

At the Child Mind Institute, we are dedicated to understanding how the brain develops and identifying ways we can support children and adolescents in building mental health awareness and resilience. Building Self-Awareness Journaling encourages introspection, helping teens understand their motivations, values, and triggers.

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Resilience and coping Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Technology 59

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

From 2018 to the end of 2019, I went from Austin to Colorado to Oregon to Costa Rica to Nicaragua to West Texas to Austin. In October of 2019 I was hospitalized in Austin after getting hit by a car as a pedestrian. I had more awareness. None of us were equipped to deal with the trauma I was experiencing. In some ways it did.

Trauma and the brain 143

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health 143

Mad in America

DECEMBER 14, 2024

It was a spontaneous consequence, since 2019, to have the desire to make myself available with myexperiential knowledge, after having lived, for a relatively short but intense-as-hell moment of my life, as a service user. My role as ESP, therefore, leads me towards external contexts and towards self-recognition!

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Self-awareness 97

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. I was a shell of my former self, unable to think, staring off into space; all while trying my best to care for my family. Unfortunately, my situation only continued to decline.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 133

Lawyers with Depression

MARCH 22, 2025

This is a guest blog from attorney, Amarbir Singh Shergill , a Private Legal Practitioner in the Honble Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh, India since 2019. This realization itself triggers a spiral of doubt, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, and mental health challenges. He earned his B.A.LLB (Hons.) Fame attracts fame.

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Legal Resilience and coping Self-awareness Sleep and mental health 59

ADDitude

JUNE 10, 2025

The study says diagnoses are following greater awareness and less stigma, along with improved education, training, and symptom recognition, particularly in historically overlooked girls, women , and racial and ethnic minorities. World J Clin Cases 2019 ; 7(17): 2420-2426. in Sweden to 10.5% in the U.S. Why Are ADHD Incidences Rising?

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Education Eating disorders Self-awareness Aging and mental health 103

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. Can I start by asking you about your reasons for writing it?

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Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness Hospitality 80

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. Some of them self-identify as disabled, a category which—like neurodivergence itself—is extremely heterogenous. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’ Both outcomes are problematic.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 143

Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures. “I Authored by psychiatrist Marshall Garrick, this article provides a window to the cultural values of psychiatry, and how self-serving rationalizations are considered artful diplomacy.

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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 140

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

#988 first appeared in a report to Congress in August 2019 wherein Federal Communications Commission (FCC) staff proposed it as a nationwide, easy-to-remember calling code for people who were suicidal or otherwise in emotional distress. I decided to focus on self-injury this time. Right now self injuring is helping.”

Sleep and mental health 137

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Resilience and coping Hospitality 137

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. In October 2019, during Matt’s move to a new apartment, I observed that Matt was emotionally paralyzed, unable to pack from lack of sleep. Where did you go from there to help Matt?

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Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 128

Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Therefore, in 2019, I decided to get start tapering once again. Using self-monitoring forms, I documented my symptoms.

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Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Neurotransmitters and mental health Resilience and coping 143

Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. In a December 2019 video shoot, I provided some old photographs for him to flip through and asked him about his childhood. A few years after the release of that film, I began adapting his writings for a cerebral, artful documentary.

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Self-awareness Technology Hospitality Education 106

The Art of Healing Trauma

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

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. Losing a large percent of memory of one’s past is the equivalent of losing a large percent of one’s Sense of Self, identity, personality, etc. But it never happened. So I had no help.

Trauma and the brain 52

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Hospitality 52

Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He died in 2019. Specific losses may be involved: loss of a loved one, a career, cherished illusions, material possessions, or self-esteem. Because everything is constantly changing, no continuous, solid self can be found or experienced. Trained in existential psychology , Welwood earned a Ph.D.

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Construction Aging and mental health Self-awareness Mindfulness practices 52

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. Nearly a quarter of adults rated their stress between 8 and 10 on a scale where 10 means a great deal of stress, up from 19% in 2019 before the pandemic.

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Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 135

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Raising awareness about depression, screening for it, and teaching that its common but underdiagnosed, at first glance seem like good things. So its particularly easy to get them to adopt an inferior self-image.

Healthcare 91

Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 91

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

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). Not caring for or being aware of basic attachment needs in the interaction with others is probably a high risk factor for depression and other mental illnesses.

Autism spectrum 40

Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40

Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. Multiple former patients came forward with accounts of Ingrasci sexually abusing them during therapy sessions with MDMA and ketamine (see also: Psymposia reporting in 2019 ).

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Psychedelic therapy Aging and mental health Legal Self-awareness 122