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

APRIL 24, 2024

As a Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Kleinman has profoundly influenced how medical professionals understand the interplay between culture, illness, and healing. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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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. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Some doctors,” Greenstone notes, “referred to his practices as ‘murderous.’”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

659 They referred to drug-induced dopamine supersensitivity as a likely reason for this difference in outcomes. 668 A WHO study of 640 depressed patients found that those treated with medication had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill than those who weren’t treated at the end of one year.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One even boasted about doing so twice, once ‘on behalf of my Asian son from Germany who is the same age as me.’ Another paper confirmed that, like the public but unlike most psychiatrists, the majority of people who are prescribed antipsychotics have psycho-social rather than bio-genetic causal explanations for their difficulties 11.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. He sets out to study the genetics of schizophrenia, through twins.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine. In the age of the internet and social media, there are other numbers of ways. He is also an academic at Bond University and a documentary filmmaker.

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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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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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Moore: We’re here to talk about some of your experiences of the mental health system and polypharmacy, experiences which are beautifully captured in your book, May Cause Side Effects , published by Central Recovery Press in 2022. Thank you so much for joining me today for the Mad In America podcast. Everything is so reactive.

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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. 11,12 References 1 Collin S, Rowse G, Martinez AP, et al. Joseph Biederman was an example of grandiosity.

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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Today's Content Level: Beginner, Intermediate Introduction and Key Definitions 1 , 2 Various terms have been used over the years to refer to drug abuse: Substance use : The consumption of psychoactive substances. It affects a significant portion of the population, with variations across age, gender, and socioeconomic groups.

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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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Zencare

JANUARY 22, 2025

There are 298 mental health conditions currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition-TR, which is the standard reference for clinical practice among trained, licensed mental health professionals, in the US. Written by Rebekah Ferguson, LMHC.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

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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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