Blog Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 
Mad in America
APRIL 15, 2025
As a Doctor of Korean Medicine who helps patients taper off long-term psychotropic medication, I see the cracks in the system every daypatients who were placed on antidepressants, sleeping pills, or antipsychotics decades ago and never given a clear path to recovery. Psychiatric institutions are increasing rapidly across the country.
Mad in America
APRIL 17, 2025
For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. These examples arent quirky accidents.
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Mad in America
DECEMBER 21, 2024
From the safety of ones surroundings to access to proper nutrition, sleep, and social stability, the circumstances of life have a lasting biochemical effect on the brain. These areas of the brain impact how a person reacts to the world. Theyre more likely to develop heart and lung diseases, cancers, and other health issues.
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.
ADDitude
JULY 8, 2025
I had to sleep alone to avoid the distressing sounds of someone else’s breathing. I already had diagnoses of ADHD and complex trauma , but I still had many questions. I thought I sucked at life. On the outside, I was positive and upbeat, a married mom of three, a business owner. I had friends, prospects, blonde highlights. That’s me!
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.
Center for Integrative Psychiatry
MAY 17, 2025
Others arent sure if it even counts as a mental illness. The truth is, PTSD can affect anyone who has gone through something deeply distressing, and yes, it is classified as a mental health disorder. PTSD Classification: Where It Fits in Mental Health So, is post traumatic stress disorder a mental illness?
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