Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

An account of the abuse he suffered after being hospitalized in a psychiatric facility at age 15 and the long journey toward joy and awe that followed, his memoir was published this spring by Penguin Random House. If you don’t mind, if we could start with the chair—with your hospitalization. How did this story start?

Hospitality

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. I was to be escorted to one of the hospitals surrounding the university by a young police officer. 5 on the 4.0 I was a failure.

Hospitality

Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? 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. Has anyone investigated how alternative therapies were diminished and basically vanquished?

Pharmaceuticals

Lightwork

JANUARY 30, 2025

At LightWork Therapy and Recovery , a mental health treatment center in Woburn, Massachusetts, we’ve seen how powerful creative expression can be in treating mental health issues. Our clients find new ways to communicate their deepest thoughts and feelings, breaking free from the limitations of spoken language.

Art therapy

Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 30, 2025

Denzel, then aged eight, had always been a stellar student. When Grace contacted her companys Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for a referral to a mental health provider, she had a few requirements. Searching for Black mental health professionals Finding a Black therapist isnt easy. When Grace W.s We needed help.

Aging and mental health

Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 30, 2025

Denzel, then aged eight, had always been a stellar student. When Grace contacted her companys Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for a referral to a mental health provider, she had a few requirements. Searching for Black mental health professionals Finding a Black therapist isnt easy. When Grace W.s We needed help.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

BetterHelp and its competitors suggest they are the answer to a pressing societal mental health crisis. As a result, people are seeking mental health care at unprecedented rates, leaving many professionals too full to accept new patients, and creating an opening for new platforms.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2024

I n 1936, at age nineteen, a German woman named Dorothea Buck followed the trail of a star along the mudflats of her North Sea home, Wangerooge Island. Hospitalized at a Christian institution called Bethel, diagnosed schizophrenic, Buck was sterilized under the Nazi law for prevention of hereditary diseases.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”

Sleep and mental health

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

MAY 6, 2025

What if the greatest threat to our veterans health isnt on the battlefield, but in their pockets? And among veterans living in poverty or without health insurance, tobacco use rates are as high as 60%. And at its core, its about protecting the health and wellbeing of those who served to protect us.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

But I was doing my best to love and assist my aging mother with whatever aid I could find, and I had to take this seriously. At one point, the counselor called back and indicated a hospital would take her. Please, I told her, I need a bit of sleep before I drive her there, as the hospital was some 110 miles away. Just chaos.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital.

Aging and mental health

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.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. To be a doctor aiming to practice the art of healing is almost impossible today due to the power of big pharma and insurance companies. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal.

Trauma and the brain

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.

Aging and mental health