Mad in America

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I was diagnosed with Bipolar II at age 12 and attempted suicide at age 13. I read books from the library on Taoism, Buddhism, nihilism, and modern psychology. A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. I was in ICU for 11 days, and on a ventilator for four of those days. So to back way up, as a kid I was brilliant.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 12, 2025

Author(s): Joseph F. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon) Now more than ever, capturing and scaling the ingredients that make for compelling and impactful teaching for trainees is vital to our future. andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades.

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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. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives.

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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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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

MAY 3, 2025

Thus, establishment psychiatry is unthreatened by the idea that trauma and adverse childhood experiences are a cause of emotional suffering and behavioral disturbancesas long as these conditions are medicalized. F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine.

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Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

It is now common knowledge that there is no reliable biological test, or biomarker, for any of the hundreds of disorders in the DSM-5. 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.

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