Mad in America

APRIL 12, 2024

Both were eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The antidepressant, prescribed by a neurologist, had unearthed my “predisposition for bipolar,” the psychiatrists would later claim. Teaching classes was meditative and kept me centered in the present moment. Both got on medication. He was the pioneer in my family.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 23, 2025

Overview of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder EP: 2. ADHD in Elementary School Age Child: Patient Case 1 EP: 3. ADHD Diagnosis Criteria EP: 4. Challenges in Diagnosing ADHD EP: 5. Impact of ADHD on Patient’s Quality of Life EP: 6. Risk Factors for ADHD Now Viewing EP: 7.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). “The esteem held by our field in the age of modern medicine rests on the validity of our scientific pursuits.

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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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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

However, openly uncooperative and hostile behavior becomes a serious concern when it is so frequent and consistent that it stands out when compared with other children of the same age and developmental level and when it affects the child’s social, family, and/or academic life.

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Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects an individual’s perception of reality. It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking. Psychosis can occur as a result of various underlying conditions, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe depression.

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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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Now Psych

MAY 20, 2024

per cent of the population have schizoaffective disorder: its a lot less common than either major depression or bipolar disorder. In about 30 per cent of cases, onset occurs between the ages of 25 and 35, and it is more common in women. How is it Diagnosed?

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Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a bio-neurological developmental disability that generally appears before the age of 3. About 25%30% of children with autism have some words at 12 to 18 months of age and then lose them. The post Autism Facts appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Mad in America

MAY 23, 2025

The troubled teen industry (TTI) is a network of therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness camps, and religious reform programs that claim to treat mental health struggles in teens. The TTI uses psychological persuasion tactics to capitalize on the guilt parents feel when their children face mental health challenges.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 18, 2025

Given her young age and the described alterations in her behavior and cognition, these can be viewed as prodromal symptoms. The DSM-5 task force concluded that there was not enough evidence to justify incorporating APS as an official mental disorder diagnosis in Section II.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. medical schools. Worldwide, there are parallels to U.S. Iatrogenesis , which is defined as illness or injury caused by medical treatment.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

667 In an NIMH study of 547 patients that compared six-year outcomes for depressed people treated for the disorder and those who eschewed medical treatment, the treated patients were three times more likely than untreated ones to suffer a cessation of their principal social role and nearly seven times more likely to become incapacitated.

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Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The most common symptom of insomnia is difficulty maintaining sleep, followed by difficulty falling asleep, with a combination of these symptoms being the most common presentation overall. Age : Insomnia symptoms can start at any age, but the first episode is more common in young adults.

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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. In the case of lawyers, however, the practice of law often serves as a backdrop for their presenting concerns. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his Ph.D.

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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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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. Could some of the characters meet criteria for bipolar disorder? Posttraumatic stress disorder? Depression? Quite possibly.

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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.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

These positive outcomes also include improved relational functioning, enhanced mentalization abilities, and increased quality of life. Further, up to 85% of individuals with ASD present with alexithymia as well as a general tendency to intellectualize rather than experience and process emotions.

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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. It was not an apology or request for forgiveness, but an attempt at redemption in the sense of admitting falling short in his prior criticisms. Nothing religious or spiritual was mentioned.

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