Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The usefulness of this construct is almost never questioned by the mainstream, taken as fact because “experts” deem it so. Only by following legal and financial motivations can one make sense of what has happened to our world’s handling of psychological distress. Pesky “mental illness.”

Pharmaceuticals

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.

Aging and mental health

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.

Legal

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Psychiatry’s mental illness theories are a major component of what Antonio Gramsci described as cultural hegemony —the prevailing cultural beliefs of a society that are social constructs implemented by the ruling class through favored institutions so as to maintain domination.

Technology

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

There can even be a legal dimension in which a doctor is held culpable if he contravenes a guideline. Foucault believed this concept is faulty because it ignores its cultural background—namely, the construction of an institutionalized education system. “If The guidelines thus formed shape how doctors are trained and how they practice.

Pharmaceuticals

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

With cannabis being a great example, we have this experiment going on in our country where we’re decriminalizing and legalizing a schedule one substance, the most criminalized substance category in the country. From a diagnosis perspective, we are baking in variants related to constructs that are not related to addiction.

Personality disorders

Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2024

While corporal punishment was legal, and may have been believed to be ‘normal and acceptable’ in the 1970s, the sexual abuse of an 11-year-old boy by a 19-year-old woman was not. At the heart of the changes is the safeguarding of children and promotion of their welfare.’

Eating disorders

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

This implies that the construct of ‘schizophrenia’ is, contrary to decades of critique and the admissions of DSM committee members themselves, a reliable and valid way of categorising a certain group of people. The journal editor then required substantial revisions before the final version was published in 2023.

Trauma and the brain

Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

If we construct elaborate systems of defenses to buffer us from reality, this is only testimony to the raw, tender quality of the open mind and heart underlying them. If we can sharpen our awareness, then we can catch ourselves in the act of constructing these stories and so begin to see through them.

Construction

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our brain is not a computer, and our heart is not a pump, though the materialistic world view is pretty good at convincing us to believe we are devoid of Spirit, the divine creative part of us which is never wounded and if not eclipsed by legal or illegal substances, is able to always make a choice. Though, naturally, we can feel a victim.

Trauma and the brain

Real Psychiatry

APRIL 20, 2025

A poorly constructed fire can lead to a smoke signal for people to see for miles. That rapidly evolved to conspiracy theories the led to threats of physical harm and legal action against some of the top scientists. Four days of starvation is enough to make most people desperate and at that point they cannot be trusted.

Manufacturing