Mad in America
OCTOBER 18, 2024
All I could understand at that age was I got hurt, I was in the hospital and everyone wanted to help. It was not until years later that I began to understand how people living with mental health challenges looked at hospitalization so much differently than I did. I was allowed to keep my cell phone, wallet, and other belongings.
Child Mind Intitute
MARCH 24, 2025
Research shows that children with intellectual developmental disorder have a higher incidence of mental health problems than other kids, but they are less likely to be diagnosed and treated for them. Why are kids with IDD more at risk for mental health disorders?
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 30, 2024
With convenience right at our fingertips, it seems paradoxical that, despite our relative prosperity, we suffer some of the highest rates of mental illness compared to any other part of the world, with more than 1 in 5 US adults living with mental illness. If that were the case, most of us would not be sitting here today.
Mad in America
MARCH 29, 2025
Signs refer to what can be objectively seena head wound, for instance, whereas a symptom is the subjective experience (my head hurts). 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).
Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2025
The Clash of Narratives In Unshrunk , Laura tells of how when she read my book Anatomy of an Epidemic, she suddenly saw her past life as a mental patient in a new light. Perhaps it wasnt that she suffered from a mental illness, but rather it was her diagnosis and drug treatment that had caused her such suffering.
Mad in America
APRIL 17, 2025
What if these unsettling mental imageries aren’t glitches in our mental software? The Science : During REM sleep, your brain replays the day’s events, cross-references memories, and simulates solutions to unresolved problems. Amental health crisissteeped in cultural amnesia.
Psychiatric Times
JUNE 12, 2025
Follow the age-old axiom of “say what you’re going to say, say it, and then say what you said.” References 1. Do it slightly differently each time, and preferably with increasing levels of associative limbic cues (humor? Stahl SM, Davis RL. Best Practices for Medical Educators, 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press; 2011 2.
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