Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis. I took a serious case of Stockholm Syndrome home with me in the taxi I left in that late October day in 2020.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I had had enough of the gypsy life, and I found a somatic coach to help me process, heal and learn self-regulating skills. I had more awareness. I worked with a doctor during 2020 and in the spring of 2021 to deal with my autoimmune symptoms that showed up as brain inflammation, but this was the last time. In some ways it did.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Awareness of this potential should, at least, have a role to play in guiding how services approach ‘sustaining remission’, and the advice they offer.

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Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

This is all happening while their brains, and their senses of self, are still developing. A wave of studies published after the 2016 and 2020 elections found increases in election-related stress and anxiety [2]. A wave of studies published after the 2016 and 2020 elections found increases in election-related stress and anxiety [2].

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Lightwork

MARCH 19, 2025

While the medication can effectively clear stubborn acne and boost confidence, it’s important to also be aware of the reported psychological effects. The visibility of facial acne creates constant awareness, leading to negative self-talk and reduced self-esteem.

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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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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 24, 2025

Effective communication strategies, such as using "I" statements and fostering patient self-reflection, can help address microaggressions without escalating tensions. 4 This step fosters self-reflection in the patient, which is often adequate for an introspective patient to understand their error.

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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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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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Psychiatry asserts that it has the medical authority to deem certain people “mentally ill,” and that such people can be forcibly treated because they suffer from “anosognosia” and thus lack awareness that they are ill and in need of treatment.

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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. For Matt, the silver lining of Covid and the pandemic in 2020 allowed him to work from home, which truly saved him. Absolutely. He did not “taper” in a systematic way.

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Real Psychiatry

MAY 26, 2025

Therapeutic neutrality is a goal as well as the psychiatrist being aware of any personality characteristics that may get in the way like impatience or getting bored or annoyed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press: 2020. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press; 2020. 11: Novalis PN, Rojcewicz SJ, Peele R.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The cost of these drugs was projected to be $62 billion in 2020, not including physician office visits to prescribe and monitor the patients on these drugs. Drug therapy of these disorders was said to cost less than, for example, treatment by a doctoral-trained psychologist.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 87

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. Anniek: I had cleared six months of time to make sure I had time for optimal self-care. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

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The Anxiety Guy

MAY 2, 2025

In that pause, you become aware of the emotion under the thoughtjust feeling it without analyzing, without judging. Its the lower self, the inner thinker, trying to convince you that not thinking is madness, that silence is dangerous. I was hyper-aware of every twitch, but emotionally disconnected from myself. Im not broken.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

To imagine these people as having traversed these landscapes losing all their belongings and sense of self. The residents seem somewhat aware of this; however, it is the medicalization of their illness experience that they resist. 2020), Unsettled Care: Temporality, Subjectivity, and the Uneasy Ethics of Care. and Trundle, C.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Approximately one year later in July 2020, the FCC adopted rules to begin establishing #988, and in October of the same year, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act was signed into law. I decided to focus on self-injury this time. The door to talk about self-injury had been opened, and so I walked through it. “I

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — otherwise known as the American dream. But that suggestion was disregarded.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. By the mid-2020, the hashtag #TraumaDumping had garnered over 2 billion views on platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

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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.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This was a follow-up to a similar report in 2020. However, once again in this report its destructive impact is neglected and actively obscured by psychology in the service of neoliberal ideology that advocates extreme self-interest, competition, over-consumption, and greed. The results of the report were alarming and concerning.

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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.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. Research into therapists who abuse clients, therefore, highlights how therapeutic models and ideologies are themselves driving and justifying abuse beyond the personal interest in self-gratification.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I started self-harming, just to feel my skin and keep the emotional pain at bay. At age 15, I was sent to a psychiatrist when I was unable to stay awake for more than a couple of hours, or eat proper food for several days, and my self-harming with sharp objects and cigarettes got too visible and out of control.

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Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Aggression has components that occur on a strictly verbal level and aggression toward property or inanimate objects as well as self (2). In the main areas I have discussed the violence has increased to the point that the Department of Justice is aware of it and successfully prosecutes cases (3,4,5).

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