Mad in America
OCTOBER 17, 2024
A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.
Mad in America
MAY 10, 2024
M y first encounter with the psychiatric system in America was at the age of 18. With each step I took into the building, the kilos of shame I had felt since the age of five built up upon my back. He was amicable, handsome, and seemed to be around the age of twenty-five. 5 on the 4.0 I was a failure. I’ll call him Carlos.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Y ouths are facing a mental health crisis. America has a track record of stigmatizing mental health struggles, particularly the mental health struggles of students with historically marginalized identities. But in today’s overly paternalistic culture, schools take away opportunities for self-growth.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Children grew up in these settings, learning independence and self-reliance from a young age. Economic systems are portrayed as immutable laws of nature, obscuring the fact that they are human constructs. At the same time, mental health professionals are as powerless as anyone else to change the dysfunctional systems.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 15, 2023
In that moment, in that mental-ward room alone, I felt I was the helpless target and it was my enemy bent on my destruction. A castaway in the hospital with pneumonia five times from age three months to five years, my only “rescue” was as an infant (presumed to be at d eath’s d oor).
Psychiatric Times
JUNE 12, 2025
Follow the age-old axiom of “say what you’re going to say, say it, and then say what you said.”
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. Sexual sanism is a label Ive used to describe the ways in which sexuality and sanism are co-constructed in our society.
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