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Mad in America
APRIL 15, 2025
As a Doctor of Korean Medicine who helps patients taper off long-term psychotropic medication, I see the cracks in the system every daypatients who were placed on antidepressants, sleeping pills, or antipsychotics decades ago and never given a clear path to recovery. Ive also been one of them. Psychotherapy is rarely suggested.
Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2025
R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.
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Mad in America
MARCH 29, 2025
Nevertheless, psychiatrists approach the mental in a similar way doctors approach the physical (remember, psychiatrists are ultimately medical doctors, and must go through the same core training). Psychopathology has no signs, only symptoms. It is a medical problem, just like heart disease or diabetes.
Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2025
As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). “The esteem held by our field in the age of modern medicine rests on the validity of our scientific pursuits.
Mad in America
AUGUST 21, 2024
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. Mark Horowitz is a clinical research fellow in psychiatry at the National Health Service (NHS) in London. I started having trouble sleeping.
Mad in America
MAY 10, 2025
At age 14, after the passing of my grandfather, a big character in our family, I was prescribed the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline), indicated for OCD, an issue I had increasingly dealt with for the previous couple of years. Once again, a pharmaceutical had altered an essential part of my body. I got insomnia and could barely sleep.
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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