Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He entered a settlement with the Ministry of Health in December 2021, which obliged the government to amend the Psychiatry Act, so that the rights for psychiatric patients subjected to belt fixation were improved. Silas had autism and came into contact with the psychiatric system at a very young age.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Children are being given psychiatric drugs at younger and younger ages, including powerful antipsychotics, and being treated for the abuse they receive in the harsh world of the homeless. I asked another employee what was wrong and the response was shes mentally ill. It was always assumed to be the childs supposed mental illness.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in the UK. It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. I want to start my story at the end. This holiday has been amazing.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

All of the ingredients for a blockbuster article were now clearly visible, including an acknowledgement from inside psychiatry that this story was of profound importance for all of our society. Yet, the media has remained silent, and now the scandal is fading away.

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Lightwork

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This stark difference isn’t just a statistical anomalyit reflects complex biological, social, and cultural factors that shape women’s mental health experiences. You’ll discover how biological factors, cultural influences, and age-related challenges contribute to anxiety in women.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

Beyond academia, he contributes significantly to public health policy as a member of the United Kingdom’s Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulations. Mark Horowitz is a clinical research fellow in psychiatry at the National Health Service (NHS) in London. I started having trouble sleeping.

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Mad in America

MARCH 4, 2025

S exual sanism permeates the ways our culture talks about and treats the mentally ill, queer people, and, more broadly, anyone who relates or reacts inappropriately to the world and people around them. They have some kind of underlying mental illness condition. How can you tell if someone is sexually deviant?

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Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. In this article, we explore the affect depression has on loved ones and their struggles to help. She enjoys sharing information with others about health and wellness. Her husband is currently searching for a job.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.

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Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Depression is a common mental health challenge in teenagers and even in some children. If you think your teen may have depression, its important to get a diagnosis from a medical or mental health professional. Depression can only be diagnosed by a mental health or medical professional.

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Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 17, 2025

Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that can cause people to lose touch with reality and see, hear, or believe things that arent real or true. Schizophrenia is a mental health disorder that affects an individuals ability to distinguish reality from fantasy. What is schizophrenia?

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Bullet Psych

JUNE 25, 2023

Not attributable to a concurrent medical/mental condition. Pica can occur at any age, although it is most common in children and individuals with intellectual disabilities. A minimum age of 2 years is suggested for a pica diagnosis to exclude developmentally normal mouthing of objects by infants that results in ingestion.

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2025

Dr. Teralyn Sell is a distinguished expert in Psychology and Brain Health, holding a PhD in Psychology and an MS in Counseling Psychology. She bridges the gap between traditional mental health care and integrative brain health solutions with formal training in holistic nutrition and biology.

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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2025

At age 14, after the passing of my grandfather, a big character in our family, I was prescribed the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline), indicated for OCD, an issue I had increasingly dealt with for the previous couple of years. I got insomnia and could barely sleep. After a year, I tapered off but I was still the same.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 18, 2025

Prodromal symptoms encompass mood changes such as anxiety, depression , mood swings, sleep issues, irritability, anger, and potential suicidal thoughts. Given her young age and the described alterations in her behavior and cognition, these can be viewed as prodromal symptoms.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

No one helped us to understand how the sleep disturbances we experienced could play havoc with our moods. The article acknowledges the significant role of social and lifestyle causes and recommends psychotherapy as the first-line treatment for mild to moderate PPD. No one reassured us that what we were doing for the baby was all right.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.” In October 2019, during Matt’s move to a new apartment, I observed that Matt was emotionally paralyzed, unable to pack from lack of sleep.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. I recall hearing my parents fight through the walls as I tried to sleep at night. They divorced once my mother found out he had been cheating with a woman half his age.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This article discusses their strengths and weaknesses. One even boasted about doing so twice, once ‘on behalf of my Asian son from Germany who is the same age as me.’ The two positive themes were ‘symptom reduction’ and ‘sleep’. It was prompted, in part, by events on social media last month.

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ADDitude

MAY 23, 2025

The MAHA Report , spearheaded by Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Robert F. It disregards the genetic underpinnings of ADHD to suggest it is caused by environmental factors and foods, twists data to stoke fear over rising diagnosis rates, and excludes a wealth of studies that link stimulant medication use to improved health outcomes.

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Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Today's Content Level: All levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) Introduction to Insomnia 1 , 2 Insomnia(s) = condition(s) that result in inadequate quality or quantity of sleep, characterized by difficulties in 1 of the following: Falling asleep (sleep initiation). Staying asleep (sleep maintenance).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. Their article was very difficult to publish. When the article was published and the editor invited comments, none arrived. This is also typical.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

Editor’s note: This article by Gaurav Datta was first published on Mad in South Asia. The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

A Brief Group Social-Belonging Intervention to Improve Mental-Health and Academic Outcomes in BIPOC and First-Generation-to-College Students Erin S. Understanding Ethnoracial Disparities and Advancing Mental Health Equity Through Clinical Psychological Science: Introduction to Special Issue P. Pritchard, Jennifer L.

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ADDitude

MARCH 20, 2025

These results stand out amid the relatively scarce research data on ARFID , an eating disorder added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders ( DSM-5 ) in 2013. One ADDitude reader, Tiffany Bird, suffered decades of poor health before being diagnosed with ARFID in her late 20s.

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ADDitude

MAY 18, 2025

While testosterone levels fluctuate slightly throughout the course of the day, their levels remain stable from the end of adolescence until roughly age 40. Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions.

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My Psychiatry

JANUARY 14, 2025

Symptoms associated with baby blues include anxiety, mood swings, difficulty sleeping, and crying spells. In this article, we will focus on explaining why postpartum depression occurs, signs and symptoms, and how to seek professional help. Some of the issues that can trigger PPD include: Age at the time of pregnancy.

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. He cites (1) pessimism ; (2) feelings of helplessness and (3) the win-loss mentality so common in the practice of law. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his Ph.D.

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. 23,24 In 2013, I estimated that, in people aged 65 and above, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines or similar, and depression drugs kill 209,000 people annually in the United States. for those aged 70-79.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Linda Andre spent the last eight years of her life institutionalized at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where she died by suicide this month at age 63. In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS Popular Books Relevant to Mental Health Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover; Random House, 2018 352 pages; $12 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edmund S. Higgins, MD At the age of 22, Joshua Coleman, PhD’s daughter from his first marriage declared that she was done—done with his distant behavior and tired of feeling ignored.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 26, 2025

Including mental disorders in aid-in-dying criteria raises ethical concerns, challenging traditional views on mental health treatment. Now, as some countries start to include ongoing and severe mental disorders as being acceptable for aid in dying, that adds to the controversies. 1 And you?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. The same age group reported an increase in mental illness from 31% to 45%, although the highest rate of 50% was reported in the age group of 18 to 34.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

When the FDA analysed all the trials in 2006, there was a curve in their report that showed that the suicide risk increased right up to the age of 40. Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. ” This information is not entirely accurate.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 19, 2025

These stark statistics underline the critical need for specialized support services, which research shows can build greater trust and lead to better outcomes in health and well-being for specific populations such as the LGTBQ+ community. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. 1 References 1. June 17, 2025.

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