Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2025

In November 2022, Colorado voters passed Proposition 122, the Natural Medicine Health Act, creating a first-of-its-kind framework for accessing certain psychedelic fungi and plants for healing purposes. The stories shared on platforms like Mad in America attest to these harms. This shift from pathology to connection is fundamental.

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Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 14, 2025

It reduces the noise of inattention or hyperactivity so kids can develop coping skills and improve self-regulation. It can boost their self-esteem and ability to function in the family. Some of this increase is likely due to better awareness and more comprehensive screening.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2024

It reeks of colonial saviourism, perpetuating the modern rhetoric that mental health was ignored in traditional societies and that only modern societies, with their enlightened ways of looking at the self and the world, give importance to it and therefore, should serve as the champions of expanding this cause worldwide.

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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.

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Zencare

JUNE 9, 2025

People hear something they can relate to, and they self-diagnose and/or treat themselves based on the worst case. Social media campaigns have been extremely effective in raising awareness and showing people there are so many others experiencing the same struggles. Social media and self-diagnosis. American Counseling Association.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

Diana Rodriguez in Bagram, Afghanistan, 2012 The scene above played out in October 2022 at my family’s home just outside of Fort Liberty, North Carolina where I’d been stationed in the Army years earlier. 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.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child offers this definition of EF skills: “Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. A good starting point is the term “executive function.”

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

Moore: If these people are aware that anyone can go and find that information, and they’re obviously happy to accept industry money, and for it to be presented as public information, do they not think it’s an issue? I continue to do these studies beating on this drum that self-reporting conflicts of interest doesn’t work.

Genetics and mental health 144

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

And I was all too aware of reports of shocking numbers of rapes and sexual assaults on psychiatric wards that I had read when I discovered online psychiatric survivor forums, and even reports in the mainstream media. I was released at the end of my 28 day section but mentally I did not leave for years to come.

Sleep and mental health 125

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Lightwork

APRIL 17, 2025

Interactions Between Ondansetron and Mental Health Medications: What You Need to Know Women taking mental health medications need to be aware of potential interactions with ondansetron. The rising use of ondansetron for pregnancy-related nausea presents a complex scenario.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Five months after Prozac came to market, the NIMH launched a “Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment” campaign. Most depressions are self-limited,” wrote Jonathan Cole, head of the NIMH’s Psychopharmacology Service Center, in 1964. This was the understanding that the NIMH decided needed to be changed.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 145

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

This book in many ways is a follow-up to her 2022 paper which looked at the serotonin story and concluded that there was no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency was a primary cause of depression. So why did you do the research that led to your 2022 paper if it seemed like this had been debunked?

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Mad in America

APRIL 19, 2025

Dick, in a moment of self-praise, writes of how she raised awareness about substance use in college kids and how their 2021 paper was used to advocate for resources to support mental health at a time before there was widespread recognition of how mental health challenges impact educational performance.

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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.

Trauma and the brain 145

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 145

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 Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To To be clear, I have no regrets about NIMH funding for genomics and neuroscience.”

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

I was also acutely embarrassed and ashamed about what had happened to me so I tried to hide my experiences from everyone, even to the point of self-denial. A Mad Priest I joined a peer self-help organisation called Grow. This is essentially the same as a ctive listening which raises the level of conscious awareness in the group.

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Mad in America

JUNE 22, 2024

The result is a form of “marketing” that encourages self-diagnosis and the embrace of disorders as identity by watering down the definition of mental suffering—and, paradoxically, minimizing understanding and compassion for those who are truly struggling. .’ Still, this extreme openness isn’t completely new — especially online.

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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.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. Its different elements often exhibit tremendous growth and vitality in their isolation, but they appear to have little awareness of each other. For the same reason, it remains painfully fragmented and siloed.

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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. 2022 Sep 1;75(3):122-128. Epub 2022 Mar 2. A supportive psychotherapy approach will be focused on the former rather than the latter. 13: Markowitz JC.

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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. To whom do we attribute the ability to care? References Campbell, David. The Visual Economy of AIDS, 2008.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 120

Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. Forest’s internal documents showed that company staff were aware of the problems.

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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.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Patients often find such a level of self-disclosure about the therapist’s problems burdensome and distracting, and I immediately felt less confidence in her ability to help. And too often he retreated to superficial, self-help maxims—“there is no such thing as perfect”—a “look on the bright side” attitude that trivialized my concerns.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this interview, we talk about her experiences of withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects , published in 2022 which is one of the first books on antidepressant withdrawal to make it to the mass market. I think radical acceptance and radical self-awareness go hand in hand.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

of the patients, and the authors said that their study “provides new evidence to suggest little to no relation between use of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and self-reported suicidal ideation.” 650 In 2022, he published the book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health.

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Mad in America

JULY 23, 2024

B ased upon the 2022 meta-analysis by Stone, et al. , Like the phenomenon of repression that is the basis for Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, people really can have no conscious awareness of things that simultaneously are retained somewhere in their nervous system. a difference of 1.8 points) was found.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 27, 2024

The deinstitutionalization era marked a shift toward community-based mental health care, highlighting the importance of individual choice and self-determination. 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.

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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. Especially when you consider that it is now known that women react differently to antipsychotics than men ( de Boer, Brand, Sommer 2022 ).

Sleep and mental health 143

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

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

Awareness of structural and social threats to success can lead students from underrepresented identities to question whether they will fully belong at a given institution, which jeopardizes their psychological well-being and academic performance. 2022) Chris R. Brewin, Andy P. Field Taylor et al.

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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. For example, the violent crime rate fell by 49% between 1993 and 2022, with substantial decreases in robbery, aggravated assault, and murder rates.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm. According to a recent survey of American adolescents, American teens reporting daily (or almost) in-person get-togethers plunged from 44 percent in 2010 to 32 percent in 2022. For the brain.

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Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 138

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

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 19, 2023

In late 2022, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued a public request for grant proposals, and our organization was chosen to create and operate a peer respite in Southern Oregon. Eligibility will be based on if someone is in crisis, not on sobriety, medication compliance, or if they are refraining from self-harming.

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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). 2022 May;112(5):728-730.

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