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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

Mad in America

Psychiatric medications are often offered as the default solutionbut without complementary options such as therapy, community support, or trauma-informed care, these prescriptions can become long-term crutches rather than bridges to healing. South Koreas mental health crisis is not simply a matter of individual symptoms.

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Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing

Mad in America

We wrote a blog about women’s leadership in the psychedelic space as an essential part of doing power differently. Psychedelics move us to sharing power with our communities, holding humility for what remains unknown, and honoring the wisdom that is distributed across people and groups.

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Soteria—A Human Response to a Human Problem

Mad in America

The principles that guide us at Soteria House are consistent with the understanding that the social rupture is central to mental crises and therefore healing and coping with these situations require a community support system and a pleasant and inclusive environment as much as possible.

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Overcoming Disaster Fatigue, Part 2: Some Solutions

Psychiatric Times

Increase emotional strength with a renewed vision and community support, but also be aware that too much resilience can be numbing and thereby even risky. It may seem paradoxical, but those who care most and work most to prevent and address disasters often have the most difficult mourning process because they did care so much.

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Irrational Polypharmacy: How Integrated Mental Health Treatment Can Help

Mad in America

Our practice recognizes that a person’s maladaptive behavior and emotional dysregulation is closely related to the individual’s experiences and is maintained by dysfunctional family dynamics, lack of community support and unhealthy interpersonal relationships.

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

Mad in America

Suppose exercise is constrained by co-morbidities; and behavioral activation is unrealistic due to life circumstances; and peer and community support is limited; and fish oil is not regarded as a sufficiently robust intervention.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

That’s one of the reasons, by the way, that Mad in America has personal stories, and that we also have blogs talking about these initiatives such as respite houses. Moore: This is from Kent who says, why is the critical psychiatry community often so skeptical of psychedelics? Whitaker: That’s why we need a grassroots rebellion.