Mad in America
APRIL 24, 2025
Antidepressants are Americas first-line treatment for the most common mental health problems, e.g., depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Given that major depression is the mental illness most commonly associated with suicide, antidepressants should at the very least lessen its risk. That is not so.
Mad in America
MARCH 22, 2025
Researchers whose findings counter the conventional wisdomand thus counter vested financial and guild interestsregularly find it difficult to place their articles with a psychiatric journal, and now that difficulty will only grow more pronounced if the new editors of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic take it in a new direction.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2024
F amily estrangement is on the rise, headlines read, followed by many articles about setting healthy boundaries, communication, self-care and emotional maturity. ” The essence of the first half of the article is nobody is perfect, get over it.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 9, 2023
Editor’s Note: This article, written by Julia X, was first published on our affiliate site, Mad in Sweden. To understand mental illness, we first need to understand what a person really is. Psychologists help people who feel bad and doctors prescribe medicine for broken brains with a lack of one or another neurotransmitter.
Lightwork
APRIL 17, 2025
Navigating medication safety during pregnancy can feel overwhelming, especially for women managing mental health conditions. For women with mental health conditions, the decision to use ondansetron requires careful consideration.
Mad in America
MAY 2, 2024
A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ” Some neuroscientists argue that we should rather focus our efforts on the upstream social and structural factors, such as trauma and inequity , that create the conditions for mental health concerns to arise.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The difficulties stopping antidepressant are summarized by Dr. John Read in a Psychology Today article updated on 9/15/23. Dr. Read recognizes the need for greater education of mental health professionals to assist with deprescribing. Too often to be able to say that this is very rare and unlikely to happen.
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