Mad in America

MARCH 25, 2025

Critically, while recovery-oriented language has permeated Irish policy documents, the lived experience of service users frequently suggests a continued emphasis on biomedical interventions over holistic, person-centred care. The result?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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

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

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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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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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.

Sleep and mental health 145

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Legal 145

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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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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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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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 24, 2025

I think that’s a really great approach to always start with the qualitative when you come to a new context to really get the things that are not always documented, and then build from there, Uugwanga said.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2024

One study [Scholastic, 2013] documents a drop from 48% of 6- to 8-year-olds down to 24% of 15- to 17-year-olds who are daily readers; another [National Center for Educational Statistics, 2013] shows a drop from 53% of 9-year-olds to 19% of 17-year-olds.”

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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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

With the entirely benevolent aim of publicising this important document, I emailed the editors of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry to see if they would accept a paper on the Guidelines as a “Viewpoint.”

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Your student may need to provide documents to verify their diagnosis and transition their care. Check the institutions website or call its health clinic to determine whether ADHD services are offered. The advantages of these clinics: They are on campus and are usually cheap or free. College can be a rewarding time for students with ADHD.

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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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Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)

JULY 29, 2014

Such calls for action are science-based document[s] to stimulate action nationwide to solve a major public health problem. surgeon general on July 29 released a call to action on preventing skin cancer.

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Sane Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

This is the first documented mental health episode in my family. When now in my 50s, I look back, seeing there are intergenerational mental health symptoms in my family. My maternal grandfather was hospitalised in the 1930s with depression. Then the line runs to me, then from me to my sons.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In his book CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami , Dalal documents how this has led to a systemic ‘gaming’ of results that is prolific throughout many healthcare organizations.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 8, 2024

It is true that blaming the client for their problems, insisting upon forgiveness or maintaining familial relationships, and ignoring trauma are well-documented issues in many practices. However, a full swing to the opposite extreme is just as damaging.

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Mental Health America (MHA)

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A Framework for Public Healths Role in Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention October 05, 2023 MHA Admin Thu, 10/05/2023 - 17:01 Download the framework Download supplemental framework document In 2023, Mental Health America, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), (..)

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Mad in America

JULY 9, 2024

A recent SAMHSA document explains : “Draper and colleagues (2015) noted almost a decade ago that even though the 988 Lifeline’s imminent risk definition is unique given the inclusion of core concepts from the Lifeline’s suicide risk assessment standards (i.e., How exactly do call-attendants make this assessment?

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Lightwork

APRIL 3, 2025

This documentation becomes invaluable for both personal development and therapeutic progress, providing concrete evidence of one’s mental health journey. Journaling becomes a form of self-therapy, helping you gain clarity and perspective on challenging situations.

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