Mad in America

JUNE 30, 2025

Medical Intervention: At 13, she underwent a hemispherectomy at Valley Children’s Healthcare to disconnect the right side of her brain. Medical Intervention: In May 2022, at Duke Health, Ela underwent a functional hemispherectomy to disconnect the part of her brain causing seizures.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2025

Meanwhile, according to ProPublica, the former CEO of NASW, Dr. Anthony McClain, made $458,334 in 2022. But also, we must admit that clinical licensing in the social work degree and its widespread use for private practice have also significantly contributed to this decline.

Poverty 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

Psychiatric Times

JULY 7, 2025

30-32 An investigation by the FDA, European Medicines Agency, and the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency concluded that current evidence does not support a causal link between GLP-1 RAs and suicidality. 29 Incretin-based agents have notable adverse effects which may affect acceptability. Subscribe Now!

Bipolar disorder

Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. By 2022, it had jumped to 45 million. No lettersbefore or after my name. Im a parent advocate, sharing my sons story because hes not here to tell it himself.

Insurance

Mad in America

AUGUST 11, 2025

The Veterans Lost at Home On November 13, 2022, Hunter Whitley, a U.S. Six months later, on March 5, 2025, the VA OIG published results of its “Mental Health Inspection of the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System.” Hunter was 23 years old.

Aging and mental health

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

JULY 29, 2025

This process is guided by a careful risk-benefit analysis, where women, together with their healthcare providers, weigh the potential benefits of treatment against possible risks associated with a particular medication. Poster presented at: US Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress; 2022 Sep 17–20; New Orleans, LA. Price MZ, Price RL.

Bipolar disorder

Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

The team will develop collaborations and partnerships that will allow them to scale up MBCT interventions, and work with diverse groups – from young people and their parents to elite athletes, healthcare professionals and underserved communities worldwide – to ensure mindfulness training and resources are available where they are most needed.

Genetics and mental health

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

Mad in America

JULY 31, 2025

Most of the healthcare funding is occurring through centralized and private systems, despite recognition that public and preventive services are more cost-effective and equitable. 2022, June 17). link] Jomo Kwame Sundaram, “Finance healthcare, not insurance premia”, Inter Press Service, 26 June 2024. Gardoki-Souto, I.,

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 26, 2025

The Potential Mental Healthcare Impacts of the Megabill President Reagan invented the term “social safety net” to defend proposed cuts to New Deal and other programs in the 1980s by asserting a now-familiar promise: That such cuts would not impact the “social safety net” for Americans “truly in need.” Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in the House.

Healthcare

Mad in America

JULY 28, 2025

In a similar drive to enforce medicalization of the houseless, California enacted the Community Assistance, Recovery & Empowerment (CARE) Act in 2022 to be phased in by all counties by December 2024. Headquartered in Wisconsin, United Healthcare keeps exceeding Wall St. Profitable corporations matter. profit estimates.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 29, 2025

Mad in America 2022;Dec 13. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022 (freely available); Gøtzsche PC. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022, page 125 (freely available). Whistleblower in healthcare (autobiography). Response rates in psychiatric drug trials are statistical nonsense. 9 Gøtzsche PC.

Anxiety disorders

Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

In 2022 South Africa took the second-lowest position, with the UK ranking worst. The most recent local national survey , published in 2022, concluded that 25% of South African adults were likely depressed and that close to one-fifth suffered from anxiety. The UK and South Africa shared lowest place in the 2021 report.

Poverty and mental health

ADDitude

APRIL 29, 2025

2022, March 8). Treatment recommendations for healthcare providers. Comparing the efficacy of stimulants for ADHD in children and adolescents using meta-analysis. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. link] 4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. link] Removed

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. Less publicized in 2022 was another powerful discrediting of psychiatry’s neurobiological disease model.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

Vested Interests in the History of Mental Health As much as we like to think that our beliefs about the world are developed rationally using facts and logic, there is evidence to suggest the opposite we tend to develop political beliefs which justify and explain our life circumstances and our feelings (Bellizzi, 2022). 2022, August 11).

Trauma and the brain

Lightwork

APRIL 17, 2025

While it’s FDA-approved for treating nausea related to chemotherapy and surgery, many healthcare providers prescribe it “off-label” for pregnancy-related morning sickness. For women with mental health conditions, the decision to use ondansetron requires careful consideration. Ondansetron in Pregnancy: A Double-Edged Sword?

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Credible Mind

MARCH 6, 2025

Van Brunt has overseen the development and implementation of clinical and patient-centered health information systems in over 500 healthcare institutions. Outstanding Leadership Award in 2022. His expertise has earned him several awards, including the Health 2.0

Digital mental health

Real Psychiatry

MAY 6, 2025

Any physician knows that no two persons with the same diagnosis are identical and yet there are scores of critics, administrators, politicians, and healthcare companies operating under that illusion. 2022 Jul;607(7918):313-320. Epub 2022 Jun 29. There are similar illusions about social constructs describing some subpopulations.

Construction

Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

One is on conflicts of interest in medicine broadly, looking at influential information sources that are used by physicians and other healthcare providers. So as Brian was saying, it is curious that, given our past publications and their conflict of interest policy, they didn’t have one for the 2022 DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR).

Genetics and mental health

Clear Behavioral Health

MAY 2, 2025

Nih.gov ; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (US). Our passionate team is always available to walk you through your treatment options and help you take the first step into a brighter tomorrow. References: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Www.niaaa.nih.gov. link] on February 19, 2024 Torres, F. 2020, October).

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moynihan’s research and writing focus on the healthcare industry, with an emphasis on how diseases are created, branded, and marketed to unsuspecting people. Moynihan : It is this multi-layered marketing strategy that wraps medical and healthcare professionals in a world of marketing, from the cradle to the grave.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The findings were concerning: despite the increasing debate surrounding the balance between benefits and treatment-related side effects of long-term antipsychotic maintenance, many healthcare professionals remain hesitant to support tapering efforts. This often leaves the difficult task of tapering medications to the service user alone.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

2024 Around-America Tour For almost two decades, my “True Crime” story has, sadly, been my unique contribution to challenging the powerful influence that the pharmaceutical industry has on the global healthcare system. I hope to reach a much larger number by touring America.

Legal

ADDitude

MARCH 18, 2025

The conversation must shift to the public health issues that actually affect the autism community: access, affordability, and quality of healthcare services. 2022 Feb 28;13:837424. Vaccines are not associated with autism: an evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies. Vaccine 2014;32:3623-3629. Front Psychiatry.

Autism spectrum

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In October, 2022, I had the opportunity to attend #CRISISCON in Kansas City, Missouri, and listen to a plenary presentation from Vibrant administrators about how great everything was going. Yet, as I contemplated the heavy Vibrant presence at CrisisCon 2022, I decided to do a little ‘shopping’ on my own. Sueanne was my first.

Sleep and mental health

Real Psychiatry

APRIL 30, 2025

Patients were treated across the study by physician supervised non-physician community healthcare providers (NPCHPs). 2022 Apr;18(4):551-560. Additional details are available in the paper on online supplementary information. Alzheimers Dement. doi: 10.1002/alz.12429. Epub 2021 Sep 5. PMID: 34482601; PMCID: PMC8897510.

Early intervention

ADDitude

APRIL 25, 2025

Finally, we cant ignore the fact that many Black women dont seek care due to a well-founded mistrust of the healthcare system. ADHD often underlies the anxiety, depression, and substance use problems that bring women in contact with the mental healthcare system. Your readership and support help make our content and outreach possible.

Healthcare

Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

In December 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams unveiled his controversial “ involuntary removals ” policy, allowing for the involuntary psychiatric detention of largely unhoused people who “ appear mentally ill ” in public. The answer lies largely in changing political winds, on both the state and national levels.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

This hunt for medical confirmation tends to be accompanied by a consumerist perspective on healthcare which sees the acquisition of the desired diagnosis as a right, not an expert opinion that may or may not be deemed applicable in a given case. 2022) A critique of critical psychiatry. Tekin & R. Bluhm (Eds.), London: Bloomsbury.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

The skit conveys some examples of state-of-the-art healthcare in England, circa 1303 A.D.: In 2022, psychiatrist Chris Palmer published Brain Energy , which shares his discovery and implementation of the 80+ years of research establishing that “mental health” conditions are associated with metabolic problems.

Aging and mental health

Clear Behavioral Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The impact of addiction goes beyond the individual – families, workplaces, healthcare systems, and society suffers. died from drug-involved overdose in 2022, including from illicit or prescription drugs [7]. Drug overdose deaths in the United States, 2002-2022. link] Understanding the opioid overdose epidemic.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Mad in America

JANUARY 27, 2024

Here, we would like to extend the responsibility of healthcare professionals to include the risk of staying on medication. A Danish shooting in a shopping mall in 2022 is a good example, where a leading Danish psychiatrist claimed the event was caused by medical undertreatment.

Self-awareness

Mad in America

AUGUST 20, 2024

The authors state clearly where the responsibility lies: “Most illegal opioid use starts with prescriptions, pointing to the critical responsibility that healthcare workers, in particular physicians and prescribers, may have in this crisis.” While I did not use any opioids for pain relief prior to surgery, Bernardino et al.

Hospitality

Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022 (freely available). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2012:April. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2022; March 23. Cambridge: Perseus Books Group; 2002. 8 Gtzsche PC. Deadly psychiatry and organised denial. Copenhagen: Peoples Press; 2015.

Neurotransmitters and mental health