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
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.
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Mad in America
APRIL 17, 2025
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?
Mad in America
APRIL 19, 2024
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.
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.
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.
ADDitude
APRIL 29, 2025
April 29, 2025 Vitamin D insufficiency worsens sleep problems in children with ADHD, but it does not directly affect the condition’s symptoms or functional impairments, a recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology found. Nearly three-quarters of children with ADHD experience a sleep problem or disorder.
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