Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Moreover, in stark contrast to the discoveries by medical researchers of biological causation for many physical illnesses, psychiatric researchers have failed to find physiological or genetic causation for the most diagnosed mental disorders—the anxiety disorders and depression—negating the rationale for the prescription of these drugs.

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Mad in America

APRIL 22, 2025

Understanding these hidden dynamics can facilitate reflection on psychiatric institutions and increase the awareness of the social and cultural factors embedded in mental health assessment. Perhaps mental health professionals need to engage in moral discussions to some degree to maintain a strong working alliance with their patients.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Unbalanced, for instance, in the sense that much emphasis is placed on brain and genetic studies that to this day have cost billions of dollars, while showing only very small associations—not providing any basis for biological screening. Genetic studies are also the cause of many misunderstandings.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In this last blog in the series, he presents his concluding thoughts and suggestions for the future of psychiatry. In the protocol for my study, I noted that the textbooks should mention that the causes of psychiatric disorders are mainly environmental, and not genetic or related to a visible brain abnormality. 695 This is sickening.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.

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NAMI

DECEMBER 13, 2024

” The thought of waiting for results terrified meI was in a bad place mentally and didnt have time to wait and deal with medication trial and error. PGx tests analyze your DNA for genetic variants that may impact how your body metabolizes or responds to certain medications. My platform is mental health.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

.” —Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955) W ith the mainstream media finally reporting that “ depression is not caused by low levels of serotonin ,” many people ask me: Why does psychiatry repeatedly get it wrong when it comes to not only to its theories of mental illness but in so many other areas?

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Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

The prevailing logic goes: if we can validate biometric tests that are clinically predictive of mental health concerns like in other medical fields, we can more precisely, effectively, and without (solely) subjective clinical observation, treat the malady. Should we give up the search for biomarkers altogether?

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 8, 2025

Anxiety is one of the most common mental health challenges, affecting millions of people worldwide. Functional medicine, however, takes a holistic approach to treating anxiety by identifying and targeting the underlying imbalances that contribute to mental health concerns.

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ADDitude

MAY 13, 2025

Eating disorders are serious, brain-based mental illnesses with a strong genetic link. 2023) The longitudinal associations of body dissatisfaction with health and wellness behaviors in midlife and older women. Int J Environ Res Public Health. The genetics of eating disorders. BMC Womens Health. Hooper, S.C.,

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Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects an individual’s perception of reality. Understanding Psychosis Psychosis is a mental health condition that affects a person’s ability to think, feel, and behave. It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. So why do we call schizophrenia a mental disorder, but not believing in conspiracy theories?

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

These signs could point to something more than just occasional stress; they could be part of a more profound mental health condition. I’m Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee, and I’ve spent years in the field of mental health, helping individuals and families navigate the often challenging terrain of psychiatric conditions.

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Lightwork

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This stark difference isn’t just a statistical anomalyit reflects complex biological, social, and cultural factors that shape women’s mental health experiences. Biological Factors Contributing to Anxiety in Women Women’s bodies go through complex hormonal cycles that have a significant impact on their mental health.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 1, 2024

In this blog, he addresses the scientific literature on antidepressant efficacy and FDA approval. I do not want to imply that there are no biological or brain factors in depression or indeed in many of the mental disorders, because there are. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. Within this, some parts of the neurodiversity movement take an uncritical or neutral perspective on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses such as—but not limited to—ASD and ADHD, backed up by unsubstantiated claims about biological and genetic causal factors.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

During 2024, we published 155 blogs , 244 reviews of scientific findings , 43 personal stories and 41 MIA reports , of which 22 were podcast interviews. Here we highlight the top ten of Mad in Americas most-read blogs and personal stories of 2024. Subscribers get free access to all Mad in America content and webinar events.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

I was tremendously excited at the launch to see the latest data in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in children.’ Search NIHR OXFORD HEALTH BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE NEWS Please follow the link below to read the news on the NIHR BRC website.

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ADDitude

MAY 23, 2025

The MAHA Report , spearheaded by Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Robert F. It disregards the genetic underpinnings of ADHD to suggest it is caused by environmental factors and foods, twists data to stoke fear over rising diagnosis rates, and excludes a wealth of studies that link stimulant medication use to improved health outcomes.

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Mad in America

MAY 20, 2025

But the focus on genetics doesnt tell the whole story. While there may be some genetic component, a growing body of research suggests that epigeneticsthe study of how experience can alter gene expressionmay provide an even more nuanced understanding of how traditions of distress are inherited.

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Mad in America

JULY 25, 2024

My mental health went down fast this time. All those symptoms came back and worse until I was unable to get out of my bedroom, stuck in a world of mental terror. This simple understanding has helped thousands of people recover from all kinds of mental distress. We all have innate wellbeing. What is the one cause?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this blog, he introduces the book. My views, which are based partly on my experience as a clinical psychologist/neuropsychologist and my 22-year career managing behavioral healthcare for large national employer health plans, are not those of most physicians or the vast majority of the media and general public. as in a Ph.D.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In this blog, he discusses the many studies finding poor long-term results with psychiatric drugs and how the drugs lead to a more chronic course for depression and psychosis. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook.

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Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg coaches people with anxiety via the internet and phone. Shes a frequent contributor to the award-winning magazine, Psychotherapy Networker and she blogs on depression for the magazine Psychology Today. The first part is genetics.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Another paper confirmed that, like the public but unlike most psychiatrists, the majority of people who are prescribed antipsychotics have psycho-social rather than bio-genetic causal explanations for their difficulties 11. Perhaps they have personally had a bad experience with mental health services but not with this particular treatment?

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Mad in America

JULY 6, 2024

Premise In our information we always emphasize that psychotropic drugs do not have a specific action on mental problems or psychopathology, but only on their symptoms. Essentially, the development of this hypersensitivity can cause abnormal reactions when the same drug or a different drug is reintroduced.

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Mad in America

MARCH 12, 2024

Instead, it is thought of as an illness with a designated diagnosis, a medical condition causing you to be feeling, thinking, and behaving in ways that are either complicated and neurodivergent or dysfunctional, imbalanced, and mentally ill. Losing your mental disorder means losing the frame that has upheld you with “diagnostic veracity”.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. After opening my private practice, one of my specialties was perinatal mental health, supporting women during pregnancy and postpartum.

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Depression and antidepressants in Australia and beyond: a critical public health analysis (PhD thesis).

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Lawyers with Depression

JANUARY 28, 2024

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. In most cases depressed lawyers, like most depressed individuals, have a genetic predisposition to the disorder. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his Ph.D.

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. Genetic association studies have come up empty-handed and so have brain imaging studies, which are generally highly flawed. Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The truth is that, in our “diagnostic culture,” all these behaviors and emotions will be translated as symptoms of some mental disorder classified in the DSM. Fear of returning to a place where they give you medication and channel you back to mentally ill normality.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. Number eight was my comment on the National Board of Health’s website. ” It is elementary knowledge that it is statistically completely wrong to adjust for something that is part of the causal chain.

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