Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Curiously, he seemed captivated by a few quotes from books I had jotted down in my diary, but our sessions continued to be a quiet standoff, a battle of nerves to see who would break the silence first. What I found in some books was as embarrassing as it was shameful. What if your client brought you a gift? What makes you think that?”

Eating disorders 123

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 20, 2025

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This includes treatment of negative symptoms of schizophrenia and the depressive phases of bipolar disorder, despite the fact that SSRIs can sometimes trigger manic episodes. C urrently, antidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed drugs for a wide range of diagnoses, not just depression and anxiety.

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NAMI

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Drawing on our shared lived experiences to create groundbreaking research, she now plans to publish a book that empowers individuals to better understand themselves, realize theyre not alone, and equips families with the tools to advocate for their loved ones.

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Mental health advocacy Bipolar disorder Healthcare 98

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In her new book The Maps We Carry , she writes about the dawning realization that the “illness” story she had believed in and publicly advocated for, was wretchedly incomplete and often dangerous. I couldn’t believe I was back at square one after a book and a TV show that told my redemption story. This was short-lived.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Psychedelic therapy Mental health advocacy 123

Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2025

Bob, I was very happy to see that in your breakthrough book, Anatomy of an Epidemic , you dedicated one chapter to the questions that I raised, because it’s important to have those discussions. They’ve lost it because of industry ties and so on. In those days, I must say that I had total intellectual freedom.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 21, 2025

I felt stupid with my women magazines, books and chocolate I had brought to her, with my pink Peugeot. No one has the same bipolar disorder. I got into my pink Peugeot convertible and drove to see her. Sam didnt look good when I saw her. It was obvious that she was struggling. I had gotten the car very cheap, but no one knew it.

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My Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Bipolar Disorder and Marijuana For individuals with bipolar disorder , marijuana presents specific risks. Research suggests heavy or near-daily marijuana use in people with bipolar disorder can worsen manic symptoms and increase the duration of manic episodes.

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Mad in America

MAY 10, 2024

I only had the clothing on my body, a folder, and a book. I roomed with a Portuguese woman who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. My vitals were taken, and everything came back okay. After that interaction, my backpack, electronics, cell phone, and everything else were confiscated.

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Hospitality Bipolar disorder Construction Insurance 139

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.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 11, 2024

His mother has remained Tony’s main caregiver while she has watched him decline over the years from the continuous drugs prescribed for diagnoses that also include schizoaffective disorder, depression, schizophrenia, mood disorder, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder. Do not be ashamed!

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Autism spectrum Aging and mental health Hospitality Bipolar disorder 125

Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

In our 2015 book Psychiatry Under the Influence , Lisa Cosgrove and I wrote about the STAR*D scandal in depth, as it served as an example of the institutional corruption in psychiatry due to pharmaceutical interests and psychiatrys own guild interests.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 145

Bullet Psych

JANUARY 21, 2024

methamphetamine, ecstasy), depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, obstructive sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, etc.). Also associated with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, personality disorder, somatic symptom disorder, and illness anxiety disorder. poor sleep hygiene, substance abuse (e.g.,

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If you go before 1980, back to DSM-I and DSM-II, those books tell of how psychiatric disorders often are reactions to difficulties in the environment or, say, to stressors in the family. There was always a core group of biological disorders, but that was a small group. Then we got juvenile bipolar disorder.

Pharmaceuticals 145

Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Hospitality Biopsychosocial model 145

Bullet Psych

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movement disorder (day #157) Narcolepsy (already discussed above) Depressive disorders and bipolar disorders (during a depressive episode) Chronic fatigue syndrome Traumatic brain injury Autoimmune disorders , e.g., hypothyroidism, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis.

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The Anxiety Guy

AUGUST 5, 2024

Resources Mentioned: The Health Anxiety Recovery Program Online Guided meditation ( surrender sessions on YouTube ) 101 Short Lessons for an Anxiety Free Life (Latest Book on Amazon) Listener Takeaways: Recognize the influence of the frantic self and subconscious mind on your anxiety.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

There are many patients who have been diagnosed with so-called serious mental illness (such as so-called schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) who ultimately reject psychiatric treatment including psychiatric drugs, and become highly functioning.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. 650 None of this history is found in Insel’s book or on NIMH’s website.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. 650 In 2022, he published the book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health.

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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). Bipolar disorder 413,000 64 4.6

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 18, 2025

The symptom(s) cannot be better accounted for by another mental disorder, including depressive or bipolar disorder with psychotic features, and cannot be attributed to the physiological effects of substances or other medical conditions. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2024;33(4):645-658.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

Higgins, MD Explore transformative memoirs and insights on estrangement in these 2 brief book reviews. BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS Popular Books Relevant to Mental Health Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover; Random House, 2018 352 pages; $12 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edmund S. The family, unsurprisingly, calls her book “fake news.”

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Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Eating disorders 52

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 11, 2025

He is now editing the final book in a 4-volume series on religions and psychiatry for Springer: Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianity, and now The Eastern Religions, and Spirituality. Daniel Morehead, MD June 6th 2025 Brief Book Reviews: June 2025 Edmund S. Daniel Morehead, MD June 6th 2025 Brief Book Reviews: June 2025 Edmund S.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Furthermore, key members of establishment psychiatry have also acknowledged the scientific invalidity of psychiatry’s DSM diagnostic manual, with Insel in his 2022 book Healing stating: “The DSM had created a common language, but much of that language had not been validated by science.” Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Her book, Mad Sisters , is a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13. It struck me as odd that throughout the book, you refer to your parents as Norman and Lorna rather than father and mother. She divides her time between Montreal and London. Im not sure.

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Hospitality Sleep and mental health Resilience and coping Aging and mental health 118

Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

Unbeknownst to Matt and me, he was being admitted to the psychiatric ward, where his basic rights were being taken away with no phone, laptop, books and pens. The psychiatrist called me the next day and announced that Matt had “bipolar disorder” as if this were a “new” diagnosis — and had clearly not seen Matt’s medical records.

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NAMI

MARCH 18, 2025

Each year, roughly two million people with serious mental illness are booked into jail. Kimberlys story is not new to the NAMI community, it was highlighted in NAMIs 2022 book You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Health. People with mental illness are significantly overrepresented in our nations jails and prisons.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

E xuberant individuals who disregard societal consensus reality are routinely diagnosed by psychiatrists with bipolar disorder; however, among psychiatrists themselves, exuberance about psychiatry regardless of the reality of psychiatry’s repeated scientific failures makes one a leading psychiatrist. Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To

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Mad in America

JULY 6, 2024

The author, Laura Guerra, is the author of the book Stopping Psychotropic Drugs: How and Why and has translated books by Joanna Moncrieff and Peter Breggin. Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in Italy. She has a degree in biological sciences and a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Ferrara.

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Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

fibromyalgia, arthritis, cancer), asthma or other respiratory issues like COPD, heart disease (angina, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea), GERD, hyperthyroidism, prostate disease, urinary frequency/urgency, neurodegenerative disorders, pregnancy, menopause, restless leg syndrome. dementia), and substance use disorders.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Socrates third indication of schizophrenia can be found in Book VII of The Republic. The French psychiatrist Charles Binet-Sangl published La Folie de Jsus (The Dementia of Jesus) in 1911 and the American psychiatrist William Hirsch made his contribution to the controversy in 1912 with his book Conclusions of a Psychiatrist.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Her book, Mad Sisters , is a highly personal account of her caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13. It struck me as odd that throughout the book, you refer to your parents as “Norman” and “Lorna” rather than “father” and “mother.” She divides her time between Montreal and London.

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Sleep and mental health Hospitality Resilience and coping Aging and mental health 52

ADDitude

APRIL 16, 2025

To do so, he latches onto the Multimodal Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA) study , without any meaningful clinical understanding of its nuances. ” As I say in my books, “If you are taking meds only for ADHD, its like putting gas in your car and driving around and around the parking lot.”

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

Depressive and bipolar disorders: patients attitudes and beliefs towards depression and antidepressants. Cambridge: Perseus Books Group; 2002. Delusions and the dilemmas of life: A systematic review and metaanalyses of the global literature on the prevalence of delusional themes in clinical groups. 3 Whitaker R. 7 Whitaker R.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 144

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 19, 2025

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Nutrition and mood 40

Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Eating disorders 40

Bullet Psych

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

bipolar disorder, MDD with psychotic features). Prescribing quetiapine for insomnia is controversial due to the risk of metabolic side effects in long-term use. I tend to avoid prescribing antipsychotics for patients with insomnia unless there is a clear comorbid condition that could also benefit (e.g.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 19, 2025

He is now editing the final book in a 4-volume series on religions and psychiatry for Springer: Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christianity, and now The Eastern Religions, and Spirituality. Louis on Sunday, May 19, 2024. He is an advocate and activist for mental health issues related to climate instability, physician burnout, and xenophobia.

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