Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Clients should be well aware of the responsible boundaries separating them from their therapist. ” Yet, all the elements describing that cursed disorder, except for the tendency to engage in random fights with strangers, appeared to mirror my own self. It was a wholly unfamiliar dynamic they had never encountered before.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

I was a shell of my former self, unable to think, staring off into space; all while trying my best to care for my family. Taking my family away Just as I was feeling as though I were myself again, my children were removed from me in emergency custody hearings that I hadn’t even been aware of.

Trauma and the brain 135

Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Self-awareness 135

Lightwork

MARCH 19, 2025

While the medication can effectively clear stubborn acne and boost confidence, it’s important to also be aware of the reported psychological effects. The visibility of facial acne creates constant awareness, leading to negative self-talk and reduced self-esteem.

Genetics and mental health 52

Genetics and mental health Nutrition and mood Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Why, she can send an email home to John boy’s parents—make them aware of his deficits. And Miss Brown will not be made aware of this until the day of. A huge benefit for students, parents and teachers in having Adderall and Ritalin-like drugs prescribed to students is the accompanying legal document: the 504 plan.

Education 118

Education Self-awareness Legal Pharmaceuticals 118

Child Mind Intitute

MARCH 4, 2025

We believe that everyone can benefit from tools that promote self-reflection and emotional growth and that these tools can serve both as standalone resources and complements to professional mental health care. This AI-driven feedback is designed to enhance self-awareness in a safe and privacy-conscious way.

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Lightwork

JANUARY 2, 2025

Introduction Mental health awareness has skyrocketed in recent years, pushing self-care from a luxury to an essential practice. Our Massachusetts-based treatment center specializes in providing women with the tools and support needed to build sustainable self-care routines.

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Psychosocially focused interventions may foster better engagement.

Early intervention 129

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Lightwork

JANUARY 23, 2025

These practical strategies will give you the skills to: Process complex emotions Maintain stability during uncertainty Build stronger support networks Create sustainable self-care practices Let’s take a look at these tools that can turn difficult transitions into opportunities for growth and self-discovery.

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Lightwork

MARCH 6, 2025

The Suffrage Movement and Its Impact on Mental Health Awareness The women’s suffrage movement was a significant period in American history, but the mental health impact on its participants went largely unnoticed. Lucy Burns documented the emotional suffering of fellow suffragettes who endured force-feeding and solitary confinement.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

DECEMBER 21, 2018

While scribbling, the children became wild, energetic, expressive and enthusiastic, a complete contrast to their previous self-conscious or restless and distracted states. In a Guided Drawing session, time is spent in the beginning becoming aware of various sensations going on in the body while in a safe container.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Just for context, the decade of the brain was defined as the period between 1990 and 1999, and it was part of a large effort involving the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institutes of Health to enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research. Whitaker: Yes, these fit in hand in glove.

Pharmaceuticals 145

Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Hospitality Biopsychosocial model 145

Zencare

APRIL 14, 2025

This stance acknowledges that we as therapists can never be fully expert in any one cultural group rather, we commit ourselves to lifelong learning, openness, and self-reflection, both as it relates to cultural groups we identify with, as well as those we dont. It is not a place for repression or self-erasure.

Resilience and coping 52

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Five months after Prozac came to market, the NIMH launched a “Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment” campaign. Indeed, as Pigott and collaborators reported in their 2010 paper , of the 4,041 patients who had entered the study, only 108 were well and still in the study at its end, a documented stay-well rate of less than 3%.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Hospitality Education Self-awareness 145

Mad in America

MAY 10, 2025

My journey with this condition led me down a path where I ended up engaging with community efforts to investigate it, to try to spread awareness, and to elucidate aspects that I believe urgently need research so patients can access the correct diagnosis and potential access to treatments. I ended up housebound for the next four years.

Sleep and mental health 135

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 135

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

T wo years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 300-page document titled “ Guidance to Community Health Services ” that called for a paradigm shift in psychiatric care, with the biomedical model replaced by one that promoted “Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches.”

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Moncrieff: I was aware when I was still a fairly junior trainee psychiatrist that there were other people who were similarly critical of the mainstream medical model. Self-identity changed and their use of these medications changed. I thought that was important to document that process.

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Mad in America

APRIL 19, 2025

Dick argues that S4S was not intended to be research at all, but just a registry, a database of genetic material (despite the fact that the initial proposal documents showcase clear intentions for individual, actionable clinical results from their project).

Genetics and mental health 122

Genetics and mental health Technology Self-awareness Education 122

Mad in America

APRIL 27, 2024

Mad in America published two of his blogs and reported on his journal publications, and he provided Mad in America with STAR*D documents, including the protocol, that we posted on our website. You had documents that told of the protocol violations. Yet, no mainstream media reported on this scandal.

Self-awareness 145

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Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

Those with a “history of treatment nonadherence” who have had two hospitalizations, even voluntarily, within three years; or have self-harmed or attempted self-harm; or attempted suicide or an act of harm to others; or have made credible threats of harm to others during a three-year “lookback” period, would be deemed eligible for the program. .”

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 27, 2023

They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — otherwise known as the American dream. My mother passed away in 2001.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2024

Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. Forest’s internal documents showed that company staff were aware of the problems.

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Manufacturing Self-awareness Legal Personality disorders 145

Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

In addition to the onsite visits, the survey drew on a variety of documents. You might lose months of memory and some loss of self-esteem. Simply becoming aware of the concept is a start. The survey noted a need for more school classes for defective children. Both OSH and Eastern Oregon State Hospital were visited.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Self-awareness 91

Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Patients often find such a level of self-disclosure about the therapist’s problems burdensome and distracting, and I immediately felt less confidence in her ability to help. And too often he retreated to superficial, self-help maxims—“there is no such thing as perfect”—a “look on the bright side” attitude that trivialized my concerns.

Aging and mental health 144

Aging and mental health Insurance Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Self-awareness 144

Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

of the patients, and the authors said that their study “provides new evidence to suggest little to no relation between use of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and self-reported suicidal ideation.” Insel is aware of this and promises to investigate why mental health outcomes in the United States are so poor.

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Mad in America

MARCH 7, 2024

Documents from the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service state that Patient A – who has since died – was vulnerable due to a variety of mental health conditions Dr Sessa was aware of.

Self-awareness 115

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

For these residents, their ART booklet, provided by the local ART center is their only legal identity, which makes availing of any form of government mandated “care” other than their dose of antiretroviral medication difficult, as all such facilities now require possessing a national identity document (the AADHAR card). and Trundle, C.

Sleep and mental health 117

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality Self-awareness 117

Mad in America

MARCH 2, 2024

In 2009-2010, things did not go well for me due to a combination of extreme insomnia, a seriously diminished self-image, setbacks in all kinds of areas and the partial loss of my social safety net. Anniek: I had cleared six months of time to make sure I had time for optimal self-care. Over the years, the diagnoses all fell away.

Sleep and mental health 143

Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Neurotransmitters and mental health Resilience and coping 143

How Psychiatry Works

JANUARY 14, 2025

The clarity I want to share here is about how we relate simultaneously to our conscious client and to a nonconscious, inner self. Inner selves The first part of the chapter opens with three visions of the inner self, and each turns out to be a different way of looking at the same thing. It is what our clients need.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

The current approach to suicide prevention and supporting people in distress in Australia is a system of failure: the current approach is dominated by influential organisations and self-anointed mental health experts who work aggressively to perpetuate an unhelpful over-medicalised approach to distress.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Of course, the World Health Organization has twice now issued 300-page documents saying we need a radical change away from the disease model and towards a human rights model, one that recognizes that there are social determinants of health. Will they give up that power, that domain, that authority, that sense of self?

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Mad in America

MAY 7, 2025

Im defining an audience as a bunch of strangers who are aware of each other and are reacting together and reacting to each other. It was about creating this sort of, I’m going to call this sacred space in which people are aware of each other and interacting. Whitaker: The audience has a shared response in a way. Cole: Yes.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. In this document, delivered to the Chief Coroner of Ontario, they stressed the need for the government to alter the law on the availability of recreational firearms. Those endeavours became Bay St.

Self-awareness 108

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National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

JANUARY 16, 2025

This imbalance often drives the use of substances like alcohol, cannabis or opioids as a means of self-medication. The reasons are likely both physiological and behavioral, rooted in well-documented environmental triggers like temperature and light exposure. suicide rates are highest during spring , peaking in April and May.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people. Russell: At this point, many people are aware that trauma is a major factor that can lead to psychosis.

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Real Psychiatry

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The inventory itself consists of 24 self-competed questions and can be viewed here. For example, the severe illnesses I have experienced were all most likely related to inflammatory signaling and the well documented effects of some of those molecules like cytokines. Many of the items (eg. Do you often feel miserable or depressed?)

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm. Third: It feeds into the epidemic of self-diagnosis raging across the internet, particularly among teenage girls, and particularly on TikTok with its “sick-role subculture.” For the brain.

Aging and mental health 138

Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 138

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. As these terms become ubiquitous on social media, they play into the hands of a culture that shuns self-improvement and coping skills.

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