Anxiety & Depression Association of America

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

As part of Women's Health Month, ADAA's Women Mental Health SIG presents a series of blogs and videos showcasing women trailblazers in the mental health sector.

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Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 13, 2023

in Psychology from Yale University, Certifications in Coaching and Applied Positive Psychology, two federal judicial clerkships, and a former Adjunct Law Professor of the Year award at Fordham , Jordana Confino understands the unique stressors and demands of the legal profession. With a J.D. from Yale Law School , a B.A.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.” 19, lists “CRPD provisions for a rights-based approach to mental health,” including Legal capacity, Liberty and security of person, Free and informed consent, Living independently, Inclusion in the community, and Access to justice.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Power was consistently decentralised (hence, for example, my writing this blog—I’m one co-author amongst many; we have all stepped up at various points). Simon interviewed dozens of people with relevant expertise, including legal scholars, First Nations’ leaders, disability rights advocates and folks working in restorative justice processes.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

People can’t legally be nasty to us because disability abuse is a hate crime too but that doesn’t appear to stop them; there doesn’t seem to be any legal precedents, cases or arrests when people who are exhibiting bizarre behaviour, are subjected to abuse and called names. He scrawled something down on a notepad, something.

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Real Psychiatry

MAY 9, 2025

As readers of this blog know I am not high on cannabis. All of this was an obvious prelude to legalization of cannabis and being able to market it as an intoxicant. There was also the idea that the United States was lagging behind the rest of the world in legalization, when it is only fully legal in 9 countries in the world.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2025

Doing so would also include allowing them to bear the potential consequences of rejecting assistance, such as legal action and social disapproval, as well as the consequences of requesting assistance, such as the potential harms of pharmaceutical interventions.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2025

The JLECBH Charter indicates that it is [e]establishing an anticipated inventory of future services and supports with a specific emphasis on prevention, early intervention, and home or community-based capacity designed to reduce reliance on emergency, criminal legal, crisis, and involuntary services (emphasis added ) , among other actions.

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Lawyers with Depression

JULY 22, 2024

This is a guest blog by Nicole Roder, LCSW-C, a bilingual DBT therapist in Bethesda, MD , certified by the DBT-Linehan Board of Certification. The legal profession is renowned for its rigorous demands and high-pressure environment. They must constantly learn and stay updated on changing laws and legal trends.

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Mad in America

APRIL 22, 2025

The fact that a diagnosis such an antisocial personality disorder does not prevent a person from facing legal consequences suggests that we implicitly maintain the assumption of agency. If we reject this assumption for individuals with personality disorders, on what grounds do we continue to hold others accountable for their actions?

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Mad in America

JULY 3, 2025

Wilson finally, with the legal help of his family, regained his autonomy and with it his ability to make decisions about his own life. The substantial difference between kidnapping and forced treatment is that the former is illegal and the latter is legal. I lived the experience of being subjected to psychiatry as shown in the film.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Yet they laude legal poisons that make the side effects of street drugs look like candy bars. They have no address; the system has little legal access to them. I can speak with them of what I have experienced with drug side effects and possibly enlighten them to what may be going on in their own process with these drugs.

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ADDitude

MAY 23, 2025

Publishers like ADDitude are left with few legal options for fighting defamation and bias, despite the injury to their reputation and business. It’s important to note that section 230 of the Communication Decency Act protects social media companies from defamation lawsuits for statements made by their users and moderators.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2024

The societal expectations and legal consequences tied to these judgments reflect a departure from humanitys evolutionary roots. To me, when a persons natural statenakedis deemed illegal, and people using natures medicine cabinet for medicinal purposes are labeled as criminals, it signals that our ideas of common decency have gone too far.

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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. Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them. All chapters have been archived here. I’ve never experienced anything like this before!

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Worst of all, corporal punishment remains legal in 23 US states —so why are our efforts focused on TikTok and texting? In the US, about 10 percent of students are sexually abused in school , while schools continue to discipline students with disabilities by restraining or isolating them.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Unfortunately, we are moving in the wrong direction when it comes to student privacy, and constant online monitoring may soon become legally required, even when schools choose privacy-preserving mental health options. The bulk of these legally induced harms will fall on historically marginalized students.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

And yet it’s required to document itself as if it weren’t any different, and this language, as with all of health care, become the basis for billing, proving policy compliance, and legal protection. All of this documentation adds up to a significant psychological toll on the writer—how could it not?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

For his efforts, Silas received a very prestigious award, the Kafka award, which is given to a person who has made a special effort to strengthen the legal position of weak social groups in society. This should be done in all countries. Silas lived in a youth home for the last period of his life.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Only by following legal and financial motivations can one make sense of what has happened to our world’s handling of psychological distress. Any other time in history would laugh at how long it has taken the scientific community to acknowledge this reality (almost as though there were conflicts of interest at play all along).

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This blog will break down the scope of naturopathic practice , the role of naturopathic pharmacy, and whether or not naturopaths can prescribe drugs as part of their treatment approach. While naturopathic doctors focus on natural therapies, their ability to prescribe pharmaceutical drugs depends on licensing, education, and state regulations.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

.’ The day featured a number of talks by academics and experts from the faculty and guest speakers, covering topics such as proposals for a young onset dementia service, integrated care in health services, innovations in service delivery, clinical and legal updates and more. View the programme of the day below

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

APRIL 18, 2025

Disclaimer: This blog provides general information about couples therapy and should not be taken as financial, legal, or medical advice. Studies show that about 70% to 75% of couples report improvements in their relationship after therapy, especially when both partners are actively engaged in the process.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

APRIL 14, 2025

Disclaimer: This blog provides general information about therapy and should not be taken as financial, legal, or medical advice. If youre even slightly considering it, thats probably a sign its worth exploring. Therapy is a safe place to reflect, grow, and feel supported. So yes, its a good idea.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MARCH 19, 2025

Such a multilayered legal process would also be unimaginably complex, cumbersome and costly. .[…] It should not be possible for a person to be deprived of their liberty on the basis of mental illness but not treated for it. That is simply imprisonment. That makes no sense either.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MAY 19, 2025

I have been told that a non drug-using cohort would have gummies in a middle-aged grouping because they see it as legal and see nothing wrong. Dr O’Gara said: From testimony from both patients and others, it is not uncommon for dinner parties. Everybody is vulnerable to HHC. Read the full article on the Irish Examiner website here.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A huge benefit for students, parents and teachers in having Adderall and Ritalin-like drugs prescribed to students is the accompanying legal document: the 504 plan. But the benefits go far beyond the chemical advantages of the drug. What are its benefits?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 2, 2025

This laid some of the legal ground work for the use of seclusion and restraint we have now. However, Oregons guardians did have the authority to the extent necessary to confine or guard the individual if they believed it was necessary for the safety of the insane person, or the property of others.

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Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. In this article, we explore the affect depression has on loved ones and their struggles to help. Katie has been married to her law student husband for almost four years.

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PsychStaffing Blog

JULY 29, 2024

This clarity also helps maintain legal compliance and sets clear expectations for employees, enhancing overall performance and alignment with organizational goals. When you ensure only qualified candidates apply, you streamline the screening process, save time and resources, and minimize misunderstandings between employers and candidates.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents. I just “blindly trusted” my family doctor.

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Lawyers with Depression

JUNE 29, 2025

This guest blog is written by Shebna N. The legal profession is known for long hours, adversarial culture, and high stakes. There’s been increasing awareness of mental health in the legal field, but how depression shows up and is managed in men has been underexamined. 19% had anxiety. 21% were problem drinkers.

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Lawyers with Depression

MARCH 11, 2024

Carrie Barron is a board-certified psychiatrist on the Columbia College of Physicians an Surgeons clinical faculty who also has a private practice in New York City.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A legal guardian and conservator have hijacked her father’s life and estate and she cannot get him out. My friend, who I will call Lilly to protect her and her family, is amidst a legal battle with her sibling and a cabal of lawyers over the legal guardianship and conservatorship of her 74-year-old father, though he can still make decisions.

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Lawyers with Depression

JUNE 12, 2024

This podcast features my interview with Courtney Schulnick, Esq., a lawyer and certified mindfulness educator. She is Special Counsel at the law firm of Marshall Dennehey in Philadelphia, defending individuals and businesses in casualty matters in the local, state, and federal courts.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. The implications for therapeutic intervention were discussed in the previous blog. And, tellingly, Aftab used his ‘moderator’ powers as blog owner to block any comments that corrected these lies. The series is being archived here.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That is, the legal framework and policies and practices for services and support still need to be created, because it is still very institutional, is what activists there have told me, but there are all these reforms underway. I started the book project for two reasons.

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