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One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. In this interview, Cartwright charts her journey of painful and lonely disillusionment with the “mental illness” framework. This was short-lived. My OCD had relapsed.

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We Can’t Help People With Trauma If We Can’t Say Trauma

Mad in America

Nadine Burke Harris , the former Surgeon General of California, and other notable professionals, enormous strides have been made in understanding childhood trauma. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse , children and adolescents who experience trauma are particularly susceptible to developing a substance use disorder.