Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. In this interview, Cartwright charts her journey of painful and lonely disillusionment with the “mental illness” framework. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Psychedelic therapy Mental health advocacy 124

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

Poverty and mental health 145

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

M any people are traumatised rather than healed by their interaction with mainstream mental health services, especially their admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit. Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals. What do we mean by healing?

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Construction 89

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. Science has a pretty good grasp of how the body and brain work, right? Mental illness is usually caused by something happening.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Pharmaceuticals 99

Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics. Much has already been written about these points, for example in my book on mental health and substance use (open access).

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Autism spectrum 116

Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

T he decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. This paper is surprising since Torrey has long argued that schizophrenia is a brain disease to be treated biomedically. Fuller Torrey.

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Genetics and mental health Bipolar disorder Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

The theme of the conference was public mental health. Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals. This is known as the Movement for Global Mental Health.

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Global mental health Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 130