Bipolar disorder Blog Self-awareness 
Mad in America
APRIL 29, 2025
This parallels Micha Frazer-Carrolls argument that mainstream mental health awareness campaigns tend to normalize mental illness for the so-called worried well, while deliberately excluding those deemed mad or seriously mentally ill. As a result, this promotes the funneling of the mad toward psychiatry and institutional care.
Mad in America
JUNE 16, 2025
My therapeutic approach is grounded in trauma-informed, systems-aware, and grief-sensitive care. For clients with conditions like bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or OCD, the approach may look different — more structured, grounded in psychoeducation and stabilization. Even those who benefit from the status quo suffer.
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Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
This blog is not about the cruelty of psychiatric institutions, although they can be cruel. Instead, what this blog is about is earning the right to be freed from such societal constraints. It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention.
Mad in America
MAY 2, 2024
A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ” 1 This is one of many recent, oversimplified headlines that encourage us to think we are on the brink of discovering the next biomarker that will scientifically validate biomedical psychiatric disorders.
Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Theo Resslers journey to sobriety spans decades of courage, support, and deep self-reflection. Theo dealt with bouts of bipolar disorder and deep-seated shame from his years of addiction. In recent years, Theo has shifted his focus to deeper levels of self-care, adopting practices like swimming, yoga, and restorative sleep.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Just for context, the decade of the brain was defined as the period between 1990 and 1999, and it was part of a large effort involving the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institutes of Health to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research. Then we got juvenile bipolar disorder.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 30, 2023
In this blog, he discusses the failures of the publicly funded long-term studies, CATIE and STAR*D, and psychiatry’s fraudulent reporting of these results. Insel is aware of this and promises to investigate why mental health outcomes in the United States are so poor. of those on citalopram in STAR*D, i.e. 10 times more.
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