Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He entered a settlement with the Ministry of Health in December 2021, which obliged the government to amend the Psychiatry Act, so that the rights for psychiatric patients subjected to belt fixation were improved. Silas had autism and came into contact with the psychiatric system at a very young age.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

My middle school-aged daughter had a suicide attempt, the result of relentless bullying. Overwhelmed, I sought help from my VA mental health team. In response to how quickly my mental health had devolved, my husband was concerned I might have a brain tumor. I built a new support system. They didn’t go away.

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Credible Mind

JANUARY 29, 2025

Rethink Mental Health Intermountain Health and CredibleMind Offer Mental Health Resources and Tools Customized mental wellbeing platform to be integrated and offered community wide to boost health equity, promote early intervention, and streamline care access SAUSALITO, Calif.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 12, 2024

I hadn’t had a chance to put a bra on yet that day, as I had gone to sleep under the impression that my mother was going to defend me. I hadn’t gone to the hospital. The age of consent in Maryland is 16, and you are 17. We were speeding towards Easton, so I assumed it was to the hospital. We were going 80mph.

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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.

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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. They have some kind of underlying mental illness condition. How can you tell if someone is sexually deviant?

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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.

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Bullet Psych

JUNE 25, 2023

Not attributable to a concurrent medical/mental condition. Pica can occur at any age, although it is most common in children and individuals with intellectual disabilities. A minimum age of 2 years is suggested for a pica diagnosis to exclude developmentally normal mouthing of objects by infants that results in ingestion.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

I always wanted and still want to help children and adolescents who are going through the things I went through when I was at their age. The pastor prayed for me and referred us to a hospital by giving us the contact of a psychiatric nurse. I always advocated for my students during staff meetings when I was a teacher.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Her book, Mad Sisters , is a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13. She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasnt just the breakit was what happened in the hospital.

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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

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.”

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.” In October 2019, during Matt’s move to a new apartment, I observed that Matt was emotionally paralyzed, unable to pack from lack of sleep.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 18, 2025

She has not had medical issues, has never been hospitalized or had surgeries, and has no allergies. Prodromal symptoms encompass mood changes such as anxiety, depression , mood swings, sleep issues, irritability, anger, and potential suicidal thoughts. Recently, she has been wearing a hoodie with her head often covered.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

I was tremendously excited at the launch to see the latest data in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in children.’ Search NIHR OXFORD HEALTH BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE NEWS Please follow the link below to read the news on the NIHR BRC website.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. I recall hearing my parents fight through the walls as I tried to sleep at night. They divorced once my mother found out he had been cheating with a woman half his age.

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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.

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Mad in America

JUNE 28, 2024

He was talking about being abandoned for a month at the age of one because his mother was protecting his life during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Past the “two major accidents a year through the age of six” as my father once confessed to the woman who would become my second wife? Is that even possible? This was no isolated incident.

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ADDitude

MAY 23, 2025

The MAHA Report , spearheaded by Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Robert F. It disregards the genetic underpinnings of ADHD to suggest it is caused by environmental factors and foods, twists data to stoke fear over rising diagnosis rates, and excludes a wealth of studies that link stimulant medication use to improved health outcomes.

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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. I was not ready for this, as I was so exhausted, and I asked her to call back after I had a few hours of sleep.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Her book, Mad Sisters , is a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13. She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasn’t just the break—it was what happened in the hospital.

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Sleep and mental health Hospitality Resilience and coping Aging and mental health 52

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.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Linda Andre spent the last eight years of her life institutionalized at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where she died by suicide this month at age 63. In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen.

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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]

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

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Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 138

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

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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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. Many a Seeker arrives having spent nights drinking and watching porn, sleeping during the day and unable to work or read. Psychiatrists and other health care practitioners are also suicidal.

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Mad in America

JULY 30, 2024

Fear of other men runs deep here in our circle, here in the mad age of othering, here in a windowless building that looks like, from a distance, nothing more than a warehouse for storing things that no one else wants to deal with. I sit with a group of men who serve long-term sentences for violent crimes.

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