Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. Waking dreams are natural phenomenathat occurwhen people experience dreamlike mental activities while awake. I grew up in China and immigrated to the U.S.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like. I have seen this merry-go-round all too often.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me.

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. If you struggle mentally, it does not mean that you are ill. It is psychiatry’s view of what mental problems are and how they arise which in itself is pathological. The author, Erik Rudi.

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Sleep and mental health Healthcare Construction Self-awareness 135

Sanity Daily

APRIL 15, 2025

I know how hard it must be for you, or else you would not have ended up reading this blog. And I believe anyone of us who thinks of ending thier life must have gone through the same thought process of ending the life mentally a hundred times before actually doing it. To be able to forgive your younger self 27.) Taking own life?

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Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Theo Resslers journey to sobriety spans decades of courage, support, and deep self-reflection. Living on his own in San Carlos Hills at just 18, Theos life revolved around maintaining a facade of freedom and success while his addiction and mental health struggles grew unchecked. Courtesy of Theo Ressler. Theo, happy and healthy.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MARCH 2, 2025

In 2025, as mental health awareness continues to grow, counseling is playing a more prominent role in education. This blog explores the top 10 benefits of counseling for students, highlighting how it enhances mental well-being, academic success, and overall personal growth. Why is counseling important?

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The London Psychiatry Centre

JUNE 2, 2025

Dr Manan Thakrar , Consultant Psychiatrist at The London Psychiatry Centre, says, Talking to someone about your mental health can make you feel very vulnerable so hearing advice as reductive as just go for a walk can leave you with feelings of disappointment and frustration, and reluctant to share your vulnerabilities in future.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 59

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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Lawyers with Depression

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

True Stories is a series of guest blogs I am running on mental health in the legal profession. She has grown into a more compassionate and well-rounded Certified Health Education Specialist and Mental Health First Aid provider from her experiences with her husband’s mental health issues.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness Education 52

Lawyers with Depression

JUNE 29, 2025

This guest blog is written by Shebna N. Osanmoh, PMHNP-BC , a board-certified psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner affiliated with Savant Care , Los Altos, CA, a mental health clinic. Depression in the Legal Profession: A Gender Breakdown Mental health struggles are common daily among legal professionals.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Vibrant Says… Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant) is described as “one of the nation’s leading mental health organizations.” But never have I ever ‘secret shopped’ anything in the ‘mental health’ world before. Mental health system providers rarely apologize, so that was meaningful even if only a small thing.

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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.

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Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

Would you tell us a little bit about what it was like for you in the mental health system before you went into withdrawal? In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this blog, he addresses antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine and esketamine, and the new frontier of drugs for postpartum depression. Psychiatry has been going down this mental disease road for 75 years or more, and I doubt, for psychiatry, that there is any turning back. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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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. Wehrenberg: Because depression comprises sadness.

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health 52

Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. The Lancet Global Health, Volume 11, Issue 1, e155 – e164 Cook, J.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 111

The London Psychiatry Centre

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders. In fact the World Health Organisation estimates that 5% of adults live with it around the globe. However, depression is a mental health condition that if left unaddressed can become worse and cause a host of unwanted cognitive and physical effects.

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Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health Self-awareness 52

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows substantial reductions in mortality rates from infectious diseases that once caused widespread fatalities.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, for those ages 35 to 44, there was an increase in chronic health conditions from 48% in 2019 to 58% in 2023. The same age group reported an increase in mental illness from 31% to 45%, although the highest rate of 50% was reported in the age group of 18 to 34.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our Spirit is also referred to as our “Witness”, “Charioteer”, or “Higher Self”. They have no awareness of the dormant forces within them awaiting recognition and activation, because the emphasis is to look outside of oneself for comfort and relief. I believe that because we each have our own resilient Spirit, we are creators.

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Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 122

Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In late 2022, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued a public request for grant proposals, and our organization was chosen to create and operate a peer respite in Southern Oregon. In the year since the Oregon Health Authority issued its Intent to Award notice, Oregon’s peer respite’s have come under attack from many sides.

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Psychiatric Times

JULY 9, 2025

Previously, he received the Administrative Award in 2016 from the American Psychiatric Association, the one-time designation of being a Hero of Public Psychiatry from the Speaker of the Assembly of the APA in 2002, and the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in 1991. Louis on Sunday, May 19, 2024.

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