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Mad in America
APRIL 22, 2025
W hen asked about her behavior during a psychiatric assessment for personality disorders, one patient’s response included this description: It was completely crazy. Professionals assess and diagnose the disorder situated in a patient’s mind so that interventions can be targeted to alleviate the disorder.
Mad in America
APRIL 29, 2025
This parallels Micha Frazer-Carrolls argument that mainstream mental health awareness campaigns tend to normalize mental illness for the so-called worried well, while deliberately excluding those deemed mad or seriously mentally ill. As a result, this promotes the funneling of the mad toward psychiatry and institutional care.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic. A person may come into hospital on no drugs at all, only to leave with several psychiatric drugs, often causing adverse side effects which leads to more prescriptions to counteract the side effects.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. But you cannot ‘recover’ from an identity, or from being a certain kind of person.
Real Psychiatry
MAY 26, 2025
Since this is a psychiatry blog, I want to add a psychiatric definition of empathy and that is: Empathy is achieved by precise, insightful, persistent, and knowledgeable questioning until the doctor is able to give an account of the patients subjective experience that the patient recognizes as his own. (2)
Mad in America
MARCH 21, 2024
Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. Forest’s internal documents showed that company staff were aware of the problems.
Mad in America
MARCH 12, 2024
Mental health awareness is a movement that has everyone seeking treatment and support for their “mood disorders” and “personality disorders” and “neurodivergency”, but this system isn’t leading to wellness—it’s impeding it. Psychiatric verdicts are not just the property of those who deliver them.
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