Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

It is now common knowledge that there is no reliable biological test, or biomarker, for any of the hundreds of disorders in the DSM-5. However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics.

Genetics and mental health 123

Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Autism spectrum 123

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

By late November, 2018, Matt found a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with Bipolar 1 disorder after one visit, prescribed Latuda, tapered him off Prozac, and practically sentenced him to be medicated for life with an overall “fair” prognosis. The ER physician had given him Prozac. I could see his lifeless eyes.

Sleep and mental health 131

Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health 131

The Anxiety Guy

MAY 2, 2025

When it comes down to how to overcome health anxiety it should be said that health anxiety is a symptom and not the root of what you’re dealing with. Health anxiety isnt just about the body; its about the stories we tell ourselves about the body. Its the loop that keeps health anxiety alive. That emotion isnt you.

Trauma and the brain 83

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Anxiety disorders 83

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Challenging the biological model of depression feels like a game of whack-a-mole: as soon as you put one theory to bed, another one sprouts up.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 138

Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Manufacturing Pharmaceuticals 138

Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. A well-substantiated body of scientific research argues for rejecting psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm for mental health and mental disorder and replacing it with a social/psychological paradigm.

Genetics and mental health 145

Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Anxiety disorders Construction 145

Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Naturally, I developed an eating disorder and OCD at an early age. I tried to open up to the psychiatrist, but he decided that I had a chemical imbalance in my brain and told me the only treatment was medication. Then later, around the time of my parents’ divorce, I was sexually abused by the older son of a family friend.

Aging and mental health 135

Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Anxiety disorders 135