Mad in America

JUNE 22, 2024

W ith all the recent coverage of the youth mental health crisis and the role of social media, little attention has been given to the way platforms like TikTok promote certain narratives about mental health—shifting not only the conversation but also the way mental health issues are actually experienced.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Childhood trauma 140

Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

His critiques extend to how psychiatric categories reflect colonial histories and obscure social causes , as well as how attempts to localize mental health interventions may still impose Western norms. Most of what we do depends on our more complex mental faculties, and those faculties are, at their core, social.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

His writing offers unique insights into the hegemonic foundations of mental health and champions the role of narrative in therapy. His profound appreciation for the humanities guides his exploration of mental health, often through the lens of art and literature. Post-psychiatry introduces these questions to the field.

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Healthcare 141

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2025

A number of mental health approaches like Soteria, Diabasis, Open Dialogue and various others operate on what has become known as the Wellness principle. Both can also be found in one form or another in many ancient spiritual practices but are invariably lacking or not present at all in the biomedical approach to mental health.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures.

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Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

And therein is a critical lesson for todays mental health system, and how it should strive to ensure that everything about us is with us, not without us. 1921 Survey This survey was commissioned because of dissatisfaction with how the mentally ill were being handled, and to plan for future need.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To be clear: we cannot exist as a society without law, research, medicine, science, and mental health care. The gravitas of this was, of course, completely unknown to my seventeen-year-old self when I entered my therapists office in 1991 and sat down, speaking hesitantly to her about my life and the recent breakdown.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

These drugs have often become the sole treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders including clinical depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other approved and off-label uses of these drugs. Depression is undoubtedly a major health problem, but I believe the soaring “increase” is a fiction and not real.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 72

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s a basic definition from the internet : “a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary.” Every unexpected event could be a prelude to more abuse. Our son and I freaked out! Focus on the immediate fear.

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Love & Life Toolbox

MAY 26, 2025

For many of us, as we age and move through different developmental stages, our perceptions, beliefs and priorities shift to some degree. This can happen in a very subtle way, or suddenly get flipped on its head with unexpected life events, triggering a drive to burrow down more snuggly into what really matters to us. Do you enjoy it?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Dr. Andrews is also concerned with the evolution of the serotonin system and the effects of antidepressants on mental and physical health. His research has shown an increased risk of cardiovascular events, as well as death among those who use antidepressants. The transcript below has been edited for length and 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. And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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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. Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2023

M y long and complicated lifelong relationship with mental health issues and mainstream psychiatry takes place across three different countries. Naturally, I developed an eating disorder and OCD at an early age. Around age 11, I had a classmate commit suicide. The first time I saw a psychiatrist was around age 12.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. An author and influential researcher, Ingrasci was well-known in the holistic health and alternative spirituality conference circuits. In 2023, Dryer resigned her medical license.

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Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Public health officials are attacked for providing the best possible public health advice just because some politicians dont like it or need to cover their own incompetence. Aggression has components that occur on a strictly verbal level and aggression toward property or inanimate objects as well as self (2).

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