Mad in America

APRIL 5, 2025

We observe this in Lauras story where, in retrospect, some of the psychiatrists claimed (and even documented at the time) their diagnostic uncertainty. In my experience, the act of providing a diagnosis is so influential on a persons sense of self that its limitations need to be repeated again and again and again.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In 2019, we published a Call to Action in the British Medical Journal documenting our concerns regarding protocol violations, 7 gave the STAR*D PIs fair warning of our intentions, and asked whether they would undertake the reanalysis themselves. The reanalysis was funded by the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) initiative.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 13, 2025

This 60-year gap likely contributed to the progressive decrease in screening, documenting, and discussing the cause and course of TD with patients.

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The Whole Psychiatry & Brain Recovery Center

JUNE 18, 2025

Then, add one thing at a time, asking your body to judge, ‘yes’ or ‘no’ For Adults: Implement visual organization systems (calendars, reminder notes, lists) Designate specific locations for important items (keys, bills, documents) Use environmental cues as behavioral prompts Structure spaces to support executive function Hoarding (..)

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

JULY 5, 2025

Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome (FHS) is a rare but documented neurological disorder in cats that causes episodes of bizarre, erratic behavior. What Is Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome (FHS)? FAQs About Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Cats What is Feline Hyperesthesia Syndrome (FHS), and how does it relate to schizophrenia in cats?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

profession once the research misconduct in the STAR*D trial had been so clearly documented. 3) Categorizing early dropouts as non-evaluable patients The STAR*D documents told of how those who dropped out without having an exit HAM-D score would be counted as treatment failures.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Thus STAR*D could only document a get-well/stay-well rate at the end of a year of only 3%. This in contrast to the previously mentioned 2006 NIMH-funded study that documented a one-year remission rate of non-medicated depressed patients of 85%.

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Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

APRIL 29, 2025

Fast-track certifications and accelerated clinical degree programs reduce therapy to a mix of buzzwords, enabling therapists to meet insurance documentation standards without true understanding or application. These surface-level applications mask the growing gap between therapeutic labels and actual clinical practice.

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Very Well Mind

MARCH 15, 2025

I took it for a month and documented my results. Useful for everything from improving your mood to powering up your brain, lion's mane is a popular supplement. Read what happened.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What nurse documented that? But after driving from Fort Worth, Texas, she said hospital staff refused to release him. ‘Sure enough, they said, “Oh, well he claimed that he was going to hurt himself.” ” And I said, “Well, who heard him say that? What was his plan?” on Tuesday, Nov.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

JUNE 22, 2025

The Role of the Hippocampus: Why Trauma Impacts Memory One of the most well-documented effects of PTSD is hippocampus damage. This leads to PTSD and executive dysfunction , difficulty organizing, prioritizing, or following through with tasks.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 10, 2025

Slowly at firstmissing details in documentation, feeling the weight of every session settle in my chest like concrete. I bought into the idea that being a good therapist meant running myself into the ground. Wasnt everyone tired? Turns out, no. Not like this. I wasnt just tired; I was unraveling.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Securing College Accommodations: A Timeline At Connecticut College, where I work, these are the deadlines to keep in mind when considering accommodations. Timelines vary among colleges.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Since there was no mention of my head injury, it took my family five years to get me referred to a neurologist who documented significant issues related to my head injury and offered some support and treatment for that.

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Mad in America

JUNE 26, 2025

While grapheme-colour synaesthesia remains the most commonly recognised of the over sixty documented types of synaesthesia, accounting for as much as 80 percent of cases in literature , it is also the easiest to measure. This has shaped research priorities. But conceptual synaesthesia doesn’t always have a single sensory output.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2025

Then she dismissed everything else as overstimulation, without ever explaining what that meant or documenting the rest of my symptoms, despite me asking her in a follow-up email. The doctor smiled politely but clearly didn’t believe TMS could have caused any of this. She ran some surface-level tests and repeated them until I “passed.”

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Toxicity That Psychiatry Refuses to Acknowledge Mainstream psychiatry acknowledges that antipsychotics can cause neurotoxicitytardive dyskinesia is a well-documented condition. And what Ive found is deeply troubling. But the field refuses to extend that acknowledgment to other psychiatric drugs.

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The Whole Psychiatry & Brain Recovery Center

JULY 2, 2025

The Paper and Document Struggle: The part that fears losing important information wants everything kept and visible, while the part that needs to find specific documents quickly gets lost in the abundance.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2025

In science journals, reviewers had documented that I had cherry-picked data to support my argument, and these scientific reviews had collectively shown that the book should be dismissed. Whitakers analysis as polemical, cherry-picking data to support a broad, oversimplified argument. Case closed.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The World Health Organization, in two lengthy documents , has twice called for a radical change in psychiatric care, away from the disease model and toward one centered on human rights and the social determinants of health. We can see this paradigm shift in societal thinking happening even within prominent institutions.

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Mad in America

MARCH 22, 2025

This was a documented stay-well rate of 3%. In 2010, Ed Pigott and colleagues published their first review of the STAR*D findings, telling of how, at the end of the one year, only 108 of the 4041 patients who had entered the study had remitted during the acute phase of the study and then stayed well and in the trial to its one-year end.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

Of the 4,041 patients who entered the trial, only 108 had remitted and then stayed well and in the study to its one-year end, a documented stay-well rate of 3%. The public now had easy access to source documents that told of how the STAR*D investigators had deviated from the protocol to produce their inflated 67% remission rate.

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Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

Four publications have documented how these are fabrications, not the studys findingsa major example of research fraud. They have succeeded in leading the public (and other doctors) to believe these drugs are of great value when that is not at all what the study found. The evidence has been detailed in these pages (see Whitaker, R.,

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

We add: ‘The three largest online surveys included in our review document the experiences of hundreds of people who have taken antidepressants for between 1 year and several years (ie, typical antidepressant users).’ The typical antidepressant user, however, takes these drugs for several years.’

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I began documenting my journey about twenty years ago, intending to show the process rather than just before and after pictures of weight loss. I am currently sharing my documented work on Substack, called Just Doing the Little Things, and on my blog at www.mitzysky.com. Every experience brings new insights.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

JUNE 25, 2025

Using this setup, the researchers documented a slow brain wave in children aged one year and older that resembled the P300 brain response of adults—although it appeared much later than in adult participants. While wearing these caps, the young participants saw faces on a screen for different lengths of time.

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APRIL 15, 2025

One of the most compelling AI use cases in the healthcare space is automated documentation , and for most organizations, documentation is pretty much synonymous with EHR. You need a solution that aligns closely with your organizations current documentation structure and templates. Theres no one-size-fits-all answer.

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National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

APRIL 15, 2025

One of the most compelling AI use cases in the healthcare space is automated documentation , and for most organizations, documentation is pretty much synonymous with EHR. You need a solution that aligns closely with your organizations current documentation structure and templates. Theres no one-size-fits-all answer.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2023

And the media are not reporting the truth even when it is very well documented. The public is being sold an illusory, commercially lucrative narrative about mental health care.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

He wanted the settlement to benefit other patients and demanded that the Ministry of Health acknowledge that the belt fixation was a violation of human rights, which documented serious problems in the psychiatric wards. But the money was not important for Silas.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Legal 145

Mad in America

JULY 19, 2024

In a Word document, I wrote down what the idea was about. This Word document was actually an integral part of the system. This reflected the number of ideas running through my mind that I considered thrilling. If I had three such ideas in the morning, I entered 3 into Excel. If I had one such idea, I entered 1.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Court documents revealed that, in 1999, two such US psychiatrists, Charles Nemeroff and Alan Schatzberg, published a psychiatry textbook that was ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. Those who shape psychiatry are often deeply corrupt, 7,533 and they often “forget” to declare their conflicts of interest against the rules.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 18, 2025

Black people, women, and sexual minorities), I am expanding this work by illustrating how it overlooks the fact that individuals are embedded in relationships, implicating that discrimination is a bigger public health issue than we have documented, as it affects many people, above and beyond the victims of discrimination.

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Lightwork

MARCH 19, 2025

Psychiatric Side Effects of Accutane Research has documented several mental health concerns linked to isotretinoin use. It’s crucial to address these issues holistically, which may include cultivating self-compassion as part of the healing process.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2024

The overwhelming research and well-documented evidence about attachment can remove the insincere tone of “allegedly” from these statements. It cites the “alleged” refrigerator mother of the 1940s as well as the rejecting and overprotective mother “allegedly” causing mental illness from the 1950s-1970s.

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Centre for Mental Health

DECEMBER 12, 2024

At the Hepatitis C Trust, a group of Peer Researchers have been discussing the use of stigmatising language in policy and research documents and service delivery. Plenty of evidence demonstrates how stigmatising language in policy documents leads to bias and discrimination in service commissioning and design.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

APRIL 10, 2025

While there are some improvements compared to the Heads of Bill, this convoluted and unhelpful document will make it almost impossible to do our jobs and, most importantly, lead to greater suffering of our patients. They ramble on without substance, quoting documents and charters.

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