Mad in America

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Like many family members I was mystified, startled, and clueless about this experience so I turned to mental health professionals for answers. After one difficult night, we went to a local mental health crisis center. Out of fear more than anything else, he made angry statements to a mental health care worker.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. 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.

Pharmaceuticals

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. I was also put on Prozac.

Biopsychosocial model

Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

And resulted in “ better 2-year outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia spectrum psychoses,” when compared with hospital based treatment. Suitable exercise, mental stimulation and appropriate nutrition can be conducive factors allowing for recovery of healthy brain function. So what is there to lose?

Early intervention

Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

David Taylor is the Director of Pharmacy and Pathology at Maudsley Hospital and a Professor of Psychopharmacology at King’s College in London. Beyond academia, he contributes significantly to public health policy as a member of the United Kingdom’s Department of Transport expert panel that introduced drug-driving regulations.

Sleep and mental health

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.

Technology

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.

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

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.

Self-awareness

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. My eyes were first opened during a clinical psychology internship at a local psychiatric hospital. Singing and humming are also great ways.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this blog, he addresses the research showing that psychiatric hospitalization increases suicidality as well as further dangers of psychiatric drugs, including tardive dyskinesia. Does psychiatric hospitalization and medicine save the lives of suicidal patients? At least that’s the “theory” but let’s look at the facts.

Healthcare

Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2024

At a High Court trial in December 1997, he was found not guilty of the charges by reason of insanity and court ordered to undergo forensic mental health treatment as one of his country’s most high-profile ‘special patients.’ In talking to him, I thought he would back me up and give me a clean bill of mental health.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The residents, most of whom were either born in Gujarat, or had somehow ended up in Gujarat, had been referred to this Center by hospitals, various non-governmental organizations, or simply arrived here by word-of-mouth. For medical emergencies, the residents are taken to a small hospital in the neighboring town of Anjar.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 18, 2024

The opening roll of this classic skit: In the Middle Ages, medicine was still in its infancy. Herbal medicine, eclectic medicine, and homeopathic medicine were some of the pre-1850 approaches to health that, whatever faults they might have had, did not encourage practitioners to bleed their patients to death or poison them with mercury.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Additionally, this data can be linked to the UK’s Hospital Episode Statistics database and the Office for National Statistics, providing further details on hospital admissions and mortality. The average age of the included service users was 82.1 Atypical antipsychotics accounted for 74.7%

Aging 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

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. 8,9,11-14 In 2019, a Norwegian study found that 52 of 100 consecutively admitted patients to a psychiatric hospital would have wanted a drug-free alternative if it had existed.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

Pharmaceuticals

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.

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

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.

Trauma and the brain