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. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

E very time I put pen to paper about my story I shiver for I do not know what my pen will blacken the paper with. But I let it blacken, for maybe some part of the narrative will give further courage to another. That night, I dont know when, perhaps in October 2024, my sister was rushing me in her car through the night. I was calm and loud.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Epigenetic tags allow each of these cells to “read” only the parts of the DNA sequence that are relevant to them, in order to become skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, muscle cells, and other unique cells with the right structure and functions for their specific role. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.

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Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

After a successful pilot in Los Angeles in 2023 with a 160-student cohort, YMHA expanded into San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area in 2024 and welcomed over 900 eager and talented students into the program.

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Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 9, 2025

Environmental Factors: Experiences of trauma or adversity, such as abuse or neglect, can magnify behavioral health challenges for teenagers. Navigating the teen years can come with a unique set of challenges, from hormonal changes to the wish for self-identity and acceptance [1]. Call us today to get started. Call us today to get started.

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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Alcohol is reinforcing because it increases dopamine release in the brain's reward system, particularly in the mesolimbic pathway, leading to feelings of pleasure, relaxation, and euphoria. Prevalence : Data from the 2023 United States National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) 10.2% Highest rates in ages 1829.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. The relationship between childhood trauma and later development of psychotic symptoms has received increasing attention in recent years. Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology Allan M.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again. Daria Bukhman is an educator, health coach and wellbeing expert.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.

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Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

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. 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. I assume that our mind is embodied, yes.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. That’s been the question posed to me in 2023 by interviewers such as Nick Fortino on “ Psychology Is ” and Mollie Adler on “Back from the Borderline. ” adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In 2018, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research PTSD treatment in military veterans and continues to teach workshops for people with trauma-affected sleep. O n the Mad in America podcast today, we hear about the potential of lucid dreaming therapy to aid those struggling with post-traumatic stress.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A dozen years ago I created a website, now extinct, called ‘Five Years’ From the David Bowie song of the same name (“We had five years left to cry in”). The idea was to see how my attitudes evolved over the coming five years: toward optimism, toward pessimism, or same-same. I was told, and believed, that I would be on this drug for life.

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Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 2, 2025

Opioids are a class of drugs that interact with certain proteins in the brain called opioid receptors. When you consume an opioid drug, whether its a prescription painkiller or an illegal substance off the streets, the opioid enters the bloodstream and floods the brain with a sudden rush of dopamine. What is an Opioid Addiction ?

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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.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Ninety-one years later in 2023, over 50,000 Americans died of suicide; more than any year on record. Psychiatric medications serve to suppress and disempower individuals from claiming and digesting their own traumas and global sufferings. I want to feel something strongly.” Is it not our responsibility to look deeper and ask, “Why?”

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Dubey, 2023). A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

If I am correct in saying that exile can cure someone of schizophrenia, then I have proven that psychiatrists are wrong in claiming that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain. I know very well that my psychosis was a consequence of numerous traumas that had nothing to do with the chemicals in my brain.

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