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.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 134

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.

Sleep and mental health 119

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services 119

ADDitude

MAY 20, 2025

Clinical Instructor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, during his presentation titled, We Got the Beat: The Impact of Music on ADHD, at the 2024 Annual International Conference on ADHD. The systematic review included 20 studies published between 1981 and 2023, reflecting data from 1,170 participants aged 2 to 56 years.

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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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Anxiety disorders Resilience and coping Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health 52

Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

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. Suitable exercise, mental stimulation and appropriate nutrition can be conducive factors allowing for recovery of healthy brain function.

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Early intervention Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 124

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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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Social media impact 52

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.

Pharmaceuticals 144

Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Hospitality Biopsychosocial model 144

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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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 55

Child Mind Intitute

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Your child and their peers will soon become aware of those differences as well, if they havent already. Undiagnosed kids with autism may worry theres something wrong with them, unable to pinpoint why they feel different from other kids their age. You may want to meet with a mental health professional yourself.

Autism spectrum 52

Autism spectrum Aging and mental health Self-awareness 52

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

AUGUST 1, 2024

My anecdotal explanation is that psychologists and psychiatrists are more concerned with self-preservation and their own ego, despite the latter actually being medical doctors. THE STATE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE TODAY I routinely rummage through all the biographies of professors at leading universities. Why is this?

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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Agriculture Education 132

ADDitude

JUNE 10, 2025

There can be a dramatic difference between prevalence and incidence, where there is no change in prevalence but a rise in incidence because new cases of ADHD are already present. 2 On May 22, the MAHA Commission , spearheaded by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Child Adolesc Ment Health. after 2020.

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Education Eating disorders Self-awareness Aging and mental health 102

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 129

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. The TTI uses psychological persuasion tactics to capitalize on the guilt parents feel when their children face mental health challenges.

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Aging and mental health Self-awareness Manufacturing Bipolar disorder 104

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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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health Resilience and coping 126

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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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Healthcare 141

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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Aging and mental health Insurance Pharmaceuticals Mental health policy 139

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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Aging and mental health Insurance Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 144

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.

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Self-awareness Aging and mental health Hospitality Breathing techniques 117

Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

Some may argue that the history presented here imposes a contemporary perspective on a hospital that existed many years ago. 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.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Self-awareness 87

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma.

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Self-awareness Biopsychosocial model Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 140

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

To be clear: we cannot exist as a society without law, research, medicine, science, and mental health care. The gravitas of this was, of course, completely unknown to my seventeen-year-old self when I entered my therapists office in 1991 and sat down, speaking hesitantly to her about my life and the recent breakdown.

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Self-awareness Aging and mental health Manufacturing 84

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. S ince the 1950s, society has witnessed an almost exponential growth in the use of antidepressant drugs (ADMs).

Neurotransmitters and mental health 73

Neurotransmitters and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Self-awareness 73

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

Most of the residents when they arrive present with advanced HIV, low CD4 counts, and often with AIDS. A number of them present with psychiatric diagnoses as well, however it is not clear whether these psychiatric complications are a result of HIV or arise independently. To whom do we attribute the ability to care?

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 112

Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Moore: We’re here to talk about some of your experiences of the mental health system and polypharmacy, experiences which are beautifully captured in your book, May Cause Side Effects , published by Central Recovery Press in 2022. Thank you so much for joining me today for the Mad In America podcast.

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Self-awareness Genetics and mental health Resilience and coping Aging and mental health 145

Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg coaches people with anxiety via the internet and phone. The loss of a self-esteem, a loss of a loved one, the loss of a desired goal. Depression is really more about the energy whether its mental energy or physical energy to make an effective response.

Genetics and mental health 52

Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health 52

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.,

Resilience and coping 59

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

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s a basic definition from the internet : “a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary.” So I decided to indulge my wife’s deep longings for her unfulfilled childhood wishes. Our son and I freaked out!

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Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness 77

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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Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Eating disorders 52

Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And our commonly held psychological theories make it hard for people to make direct contact with depression as a living experience, by framing it as an objective mental disorder to be quickly eliminated. Specific losses may be involved: loss of a loved one, a career, cherished illusions, material possessions, or self-esteem.

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Construction Aging and mental health Self-awareness Mindfulness practices 52

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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Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 122

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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Self-awareness Aging and mental health 142

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

These positive outcomes also include improved relational functioning, enhanced mentalization abilities, and increased quality of life. Further, up to 85% of individuals with ASD present with alexithymia as well as a general tendency to intellectualize rather than experience and process emotions.

Autism spectrum 40

Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40

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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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Mental health advocacy 139

Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. An author and influential researcher, Ingrasci was well-known in the holistic health and alternative spirituality conference circuits. In 2023, Dryer resigned her medical license.

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Psychedelic therapy Aging and mental health Legal Self-awareness 124

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In this interview, he speaks with Mad in Americas Javier Rizo about the intersections of therapy and politics, the importance of pluralism in mental health care, and the future of counseling psychology as a force for progressive change. The challenge is finding the resources and time to fully integrate that awareness into practice.

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Self-awareness Poverty and mental health Dialectical Behavior Therapy Aging and mental health 122

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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Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 129