Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreams are natural phenomenathat occurwhen people experience dreamlike mental activities while awake. It represents a hybrid mental state on the edge between wakefulness and sleep, where imagination and reality blur. .” I experienced waking dreams for the first time in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Sources 1 Edlow AG. JAMA Netw Open. 2021;4(10):e2129674.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 23, 2025

ADHD in Elementary School Age Child: Patient Case 1 EP: 3. Before reaching specialized behavioral health services, families typically consult pediatricians who must possess comprehensive knowledge of ADHD presentation, diagnostic criteria, and evidence-based treatment approaches. ADHD Diagnosis Criteria EP: 4. Subscribe Now!

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Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

million (as of school year 2020-21) eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities, including behavioral health disabilities. Children and youth ages 3 through 21 receive special education and related services under IDEA Part B. Department of Education’s 2022 Annual Report to Congress ) In 2020, 9.7%

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Centre for Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2025

Forty years ago, on 1 March 1985, Centre for Mental Health was established as a charity, as the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development. What drives us most deeply is a relentless determination to tackle (and reduce) mental health inequality. Mental health inequalities are social and economic inequalities.

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

Key findings from the most recent America’s Children in Brief report: Teen Substance Use In OctoberDecember 2020, about 46% of adolescents ages 1217 who used illicit drugs in the past year perceived that they were using those substances “a little less or much less” than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

Ameliorating factors like oxidative stress, neuro-inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction with such interventions may have ‘neuroprotective’ effects, as well more general health benefits. Suitable exercise, mental stimulation and appropriate nutrition can be conducive factors allowing for recovery of healthy brain function.

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ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH)

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Far too many Americans across the country face barriers to quality behavioral health care, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only amplified this widespread issue, said Edward Garcia III, MHS , Founder and Board Member of ANMH and Founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Social Connection. Healing is everyone's birthright.

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Clear Behavioral Health

MAY 2, 2025

Depression commonly refers to a mental health disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and a loss of interest in activities that you once enjoyed. If you’re struggling with alcohol addiction and depression, call us today and start healing in the Los Angeles, California area.

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ADDitude

JUNE 10, 2025

1 The systematic review, led by a team of researchers from King’s College London , found no significant increase in ADHD prevalence rates among children and adults from 2020 to 2024 compared to earlier time periods. after 2020. The worldwide prevalence of ADHD in children before 2020 was between 5 and 7%. in Sweden to 10.5%

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. medical schools. Worldwide, there are parallels to U.S. Iatrogenesis , which is defined as illness or injury caused by medical treatment.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 24, 2025

Professor Cathy Creswell , from Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and lead for the NIHR ARC OxTV’s mental health across the life course theme, recently visited Chile to establish the project. In February 2023, it was recommended for use in the NHS by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

I was tremendously excited at the launch to see the latest data in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in children.’ Search NIHR OXFORD HEALTH BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE NEWS Please follow the link below to read the news on the NIHR BRC website.

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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.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.” We attempted to get help from a sleep clinic, and they refused to test him, claiming his insomnia was caused by “mental health issues.”

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

I always wanted and still want to help children and adolescents who are going through the things I went through when I was at their age. SUCCEED Africa is a six-year project which began in 2020 that aims to develop and deliver holistic care intervention for persons with psychosocial disabilities while safeguarding their fundamental rights.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In public health, we talk about death. We aim to protect, preserve, and promote the health of individuals and their communities. We don’t examine the health effects of this person’s absence. In this sense, it’s odd that we rarely think about death as an exposure with downstream health risks.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After enduring years of chronic fatigue syndrome (also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME/CFS), autism, ADHD, and anxiety, she, at the young age of 28, chose euthanasia to escape a life dominated by pain. As of this year, the MAID program was also set to allow those with mental illness to choose euthanasia.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One even boasted about doing so twice, once ‘on behalf of my Asian son from Germany who is the same age as me.’ tapering strips, liquid, smaller dose tablets) to ensure gradual reduction’ (88%) and ‘A health professional providing a personalised, flexible reduction plan’ (79%). there are two very reasonable concerns.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder. But the promised gains never materialized.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.

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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. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Her book, Mad Sisters , is a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13. Its harder now because, as you age, you start thinking, “This is my life. Nancy had been in the locked ward from age 28 through her 30s and into her early 40s.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. They divorced once my mother found out he had been cheating with a woman half his age. At the age of 14, I found myself in an abusive relationship with a boy a year older than me.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

These drugs have often become the sole treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders including clinical depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other approved and off-label uses of these drugs. Depression is undoubtedly a major health problem, but I believe the soaring “increase” is a fiction and not real.

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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. J Health Soc Behav.

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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%! This is the first step in evaluating any new drug, trying out the drug on normal people without the health problem under consideration.

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National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

MAY 6, 2025

What if the greatest threat to our veterans health isnt on the battlefield, but in their pockets? And among veterans living in poverty or without health insurance, tobacco use rates are as high as 60%. And at its core, its about protecting the health and wellbeing of those who served to protect us.

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Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Substance abuse is one of the most critical public health crises in the United States, affecting millions of individuals, families, and communities. The Impact of Substance Abuse Substance abuse takes a significant toll on your physical and mental health.

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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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. In 2020, Hjelmeland et al. The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] 5] In 2017, Norwegian Professor Heidi Hjelmeland et al.

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Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2024

Following the George Floyd uprising in 2020, he founded the project Of Unsound Mind to trace the histories of psychiatry, social work, and public health’s connections to policing, prisons, and various disciplinary and managerial technologies. I was always interested in radical politics since a very young age.

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. 23,24 In 2013, I estimated that, in people aged 65 and above, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or similar, and depression drugs kill 209,000 people annually in the United States. for those aged 70-79.

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ADDitude

MAY 27, 2025

Drugs & Aging , 39(8), 607618. 5 These significant shifts in symptom severity were vividly described by Chloe, an ADDitude reader, in an article titled Menstrual Cycle Phases and ADHD.” ” The entire week leading up to my period is where my ADHD symptoms get even more intrusive than usual, she wrote. link] 6 Baker, A.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Her book, Mad Sisters , is a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13. It’s harder now because, as you age, you start thinking, “This is my life. Nancy had been in the locked ward from age 28 through her 30s and into her early 40s.

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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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