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Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity

Mad in America

APRIL 8, 2025

Clinically speaking, early childhood trauma often leads to insecure attachment styles and maladaptive survival strategies. While some neurological and genetic conditions may exist, they are less common than often assumed. Even these conditions can be managed and mitigated through a modified version of this approach.

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The Power Dynamics of Psychedelic Therapy

Mad in America

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Or, my childhood trauma of feeling like at any moment, if I didn’t do what I was supposed to do, I could be shamed or punished according to the rules of obedience training my parents learned from Dr. Rather than the therapist innately trusting the initial impulse of the client for the change in music, there is an element of mistrust.

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How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Childhood trauma and further adverse events in adulthood such as bullying, social discrimination or exclusion, migration or visibly marginalized status may, for example, increase risk of developing what is then labeled as psychotic disorder.

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3 Types of Somatic Therapy: Finding the Right One for You

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

APRIL 26, 2025

Its a beautiful option for anyone whos experienced trauma, particularly developmental or childhood trauma. Disclaimer: The information provided in this blog is for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace professional medical or psychological advice. </p>

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Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care

Mad in America

MAY 13, 2025

When we pin the problem on brain chemistry, we: Make social factors affecting mental health less visible: Studies keep showing that things like being poor, facing discrimination, childhood trauma, loneliness and isolation, and social inequality affect how healthy people are.

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

A functional psychiatrist may consider one patient’s depression to be the compounding result of childhood trauma and hypothyroidism, and another’s to be the result of metabolic issues, autoimmunity, and food allergies. For example, a condition like depression can both contribute to, and be caused by, multiple other health conditions.

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The Most Important Thing I Learned in the 8th grade….

Real Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

My speculation is that the commonest cultural factor in play these days is childhood trauma because the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) checklist is available and considered a measure. I did not touch on the rhetoric involved and that is long, detailed, and discussed in other places on this blog.

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Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”

Mad in America

APRIL 28, 2025

I had already gained the insight that my original emotional crisis back in1994, was not in fact the beginning of what was later diagnosed as severe treatment resistant depression, but a completely understandable reaction to the then current circumstances and my childhood trauma. At the end of 2001, I had a temporary reprieve.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. The relationship between childhood trauma and later development of psychotic symptoms has received increasing attention in recent years.

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

I was given psychotherapy all through this time, but the therapists were not impressed by my accounts of childhood trauma. I never improved, instead slowly became worse and worse, as a revolving door patient. Apparently, nothing I told them was sufficient to cause the state I found myself in.

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Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em: Rethinking Smoking as a Trauma Response

Mad in America

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It will come from addressing the root causes—childhood trauma and the systems that perpetuate it. Until science fully understands the relationship between trauma and smoking (i.e., People don’t choose their trauma, and many wouldn’t smoke if they didn’t feel they had to. drug use), let’s pause the blame game.

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‘Delusions’ and ‘Paranoia’: What Are They, Really, and How Can We Engage Them in a Loved One?

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After discussing the “age of alters” on my blog one time, it was suggested by one of my readers that the age at which the dissociation occurs—due to trauma—is the age that becomes associated with that part of the trauma sufferer. Our son and I freaked out! I believe this was a different aspect of the Rip Van Winkle effect.

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The Ouija Board and the Skeptic

Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2025

Martin Teicher, a neuroscientist renowned for his work on childhood trauma, has demonstrated how exposure to stress and trauma during critical developmental periods can physically alter the structure and function of the brain. His research was confirmed by CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACE studies involving 17,000 individuals.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, c.

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Greater Role for Experts by Experience in the Dialogue on Euthanasia in Cases of Psychological Suffering Is Desired

Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Processing (early childhood) trauma requires space and safety. Human experiences cannot be captured in protocols and recovery takes time. Patience, compassion and customization are needed to guide someone through such a process.

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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) The rise in trauma diagnoses is partly driven by the misuse of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) framework, which was designed to study the link between childhood trauma and long-term health, not as a diagnostic tool.

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We Can’t Help People With Trauma If We Can’t Say Trauma

Mad in America

MAY 15, 2025

In recent years, thanks to efforts from prominent pediatricians like Dr. Nadine Burke Harris , the former Surgeon General of California, and other notable professionals, enormous strides have been made in understanding childhood trauma.

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Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity

The Power Dynamics of Psychedelic Therapy

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

The Most Important Thing I Learned in the 8th grade….

Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”

Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em: Rethinking Smoking as a Trauma Response

‘Delusions’ and ‘Paranoia’: What Are They, Really, and How Can We Engage Them in a Loved One?

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

Greater Role for Experts by Experience in the Dialogue on Euthanasia in Cases of Psychological Suffering Is Desired

The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

We Can’t Help People With Trauma If We Can’t Say Trauma

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