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.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services 118

Lightwork

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This stark difference isn’t just a statistical anomalyit reflects complex biological, social, and cultural factors that shape women’s mental health experiences. You’ll discover how biological factors, cultural influences, and age-related challenges contribute to anxiety in women.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

Approaches informed by lived experience such as ‘ Hearing Voices ’ can enable some to come to terms with their ‘symptoms’ and live well with them. A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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. 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.

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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. This type of therapy is different from traditional talk therapy because it lets you explore your inner self through creative expression.

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Child Mind Intitute

DECEMBER 6, 2024

But with concerns about cyberbullying and detrimental effects of social media on self-esteem and mental health , others say it shouldnt even be a question. Parents worry about their childrens exposure to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, scams, and predators, as well as social medias impact on their mental health.

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Child Mind Intitute

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Your child and their peers will soon become aware of those differences as well, if they havent already. She points to a study showing that first impressions of adults with autism spectrum disorder improved when the diagnosis was disclosed and when peers had more information about the disorder. This can cause a great deal of anxiety.

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ADDitude

JUNE 2, 2025

14 Talks Before Age 14 by Michelle Icard The Price of Privilege by Madeline Levine Ph.D. ADDA , CHADD , and ADDitude publish resources that have been extremely helpful in how we organize our lives, how we practice self-care, how we work to regulate our emotions for a more stable home, and so on.” Skolnick, MA, JD.

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Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. She has grown into a more compassionate and well-rounded Certified Health Education Specialist and Mental Health First Aid provider from her experiences with her husband’s mental health issues.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 52

Mad in America

MAY 10, 2025

My journey with this condition led me down a path where I ended up engaging with community efforts to investigate it, to try to spread awareness, and to elucidate aspects that I believe urgently need research so patients can access the correct diagnosis and potential access to treatments. After a year, I tapered off but I was still the same.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 127

Mad in America

MAY 23, 2025

The troubled teen industry (TTI) is a network of therapeutic boarding schools, wilderness camps, and religious reform programs that claim to treat mental health struggles in teens. I spent 14 months in one of these programs, where I was isolated, medicated without informed consent, and subjected to emotional torment.

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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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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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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.

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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

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

MARCH 30, 2024

But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. 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.”

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Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain Bipolar disorder Aging and mental health 129

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

MARCH 9, 2024

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 111

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. Affective (i.e.,

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Genetics and mental health Resilience and coping Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 59

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS Popular Books Relevant to Mental Health Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover; Random House, 2018 352 pages; $12 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edmund S. She says she was self -schooled, learning to read by parsing the Bible and Mormon writings. and had zero tolerance for deviation from his survivalist doctrine.

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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

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The prescribing of medications to all ages has increased along with the suicide and homicide rate. Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. Ninety-one years later in 2023, over 50,000 Americans died of suicide; more than any year on record. Though, naturally, we can feel a victim.

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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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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

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. Rumination over mistakes is inherently self-blaming because the goal is to figure out what you could have done to prevent the outcome.

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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

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

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

JUNE 3, 2025

I n this article I will be proposing an early framework for a mental health intervention called depsychiatrization. Depsychiatrization describes the processes by which a diagnosed individual learns to expel psychiatrically induced self-concepts and substitute them for more empowering and nurturing understandings.

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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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