Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

Tony, who lives in Virginia near his mother, lost his speech and eye contact at a very early age, when he received an autism diagnosis. It appears that what is often left out in care for patients in the mental health system is the care for the entire family unit.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.

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Sane Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Every day, more than one million Australians live with a psychosocial disability - a term that refers to the impact of a complex mental health condition on a persons capacity to function in daily life. However, a recent national report from the Department of Health and Aged Care highlighted a troubling issue.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the many studies finding poor long-term results with psychiatric drugs and how the drugs lead to a more chronic course for depression and psychosis. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Depressive and bipolar disorders: patients attitudes and beliefs towards depression and antidepressants.

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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.

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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. Terminology varies globally, reflecting cultural, religious, and ethical differences, with "personal aid in dying" suggested for clarity.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

They had tortured me for four years, between the ages of sixteen and twenty, first because they suffered under the delusion that my homosexuality was a mental illness, and then by their certainty that my schizophrenia, which they had created, was incurable. ” Where is one better off than with ones family? Anywhere else.

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Mad in America

JUNE 3, 2025

I n this article I will be proposing an early framework for a mental health intervention called depsychiatrization. Much has been written on the many ways in which psychiatry does harm to individuals seeking help for mental health issues: The medical treatments are far too often more harmful than beneficial, especially in the long run.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 13, 2025

Another example in the news was the recent death at age 82 of the well-known musician Brian Wilson, one of the original Beach Boys. Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Key Takeaways Redemption in psychiatry involves acknowledging failures and striving for improvement, extending beyond religious contexts.

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