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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

Mad in America

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.

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Does Bipolar Disorder Get Worse with Age? Understanding the Impact on Older Adults

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mental health condition characterized by intense mood shifts, from manic highs to depressive lows. But as individuals age, many wonder: Does bipolar disorder get worse with age? Bipolar disorder symptoms in aging adults may appear subtler than in younger individuals.

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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental health Crisis

Mad in America

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.

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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and Societal Healing

Mad in America

For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. What if these unsettling mental imageries aren’t glitches in our mental software? What if they’re urgent messages from abuilt-in navigation systemdesigned to guide us through life?

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How to Learn to Love to Write: A Mental Health Journey

Mad in America

F rom a young age, you discover how much you love to read and write. Wake up, school, homework, sleep, repeat. You start believing the voices and get sent into an unlivable mental state. You can’t cry, you can’t sleep, you can’t feel. You’re exhausted, both mentally and physically.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

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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10 Life-Changing Ways to Beat Anxiety and Depression by Harmony United Psychiatric Care Experts

Harmony United Psychiatric Care

Millions of individuals of all ages and backgrounds suffer from anxiety and depression, two of the most prevalent mental health conditions in the world.

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