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I Am Looking for People I Miss

Mad in America

I am looking for Sam. I met Sam during one of my spells in a psychiatric hospital in Sheffield. She was very funny, beautiful and kind. With lustrous blond hair, she was liked by everyone, including the nurses. We became friends at once. I always found it important to make friends if I was in a hospital (a few times). I never believed in solely individual resilience.

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Emotional blunting more a reflection that antidepressants don’t work than how they do

Critical Psychiatry

Ive mentioned before my concerns about the notion that antidepressants work through being emotional suppressants (see eg. previous post ). In fact, Im more inclined to think antidepressants dont work any better than placebo (see eg. last post ), so theres no need to explain how antidepressants work, as such. Although the emotional numbness theory has been promoted by Joanna Moncrieff, in her recent book she does qualify this hypothesis by saying she thinks we should be cautious about assuming em

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You Are A World by Tara Rae Behr

Mad in America

You are a world. You are not a sign, a category, a personality, a label, a diagnosis, a spectacle, a thing to be analyzed, or figured out. Others who lost their world will try to eat your world to be their world. You are a world of infinite possibility. We do not know you totally, and anyone who promises they do, wants to consume you. They secretly say, and I know it well, Come, be like me.

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The sorry state of modern academic psychiatry

Critical Psychiatry

Im not sure who advised the king about the appointment of Ed Bullmore as Regius Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at Kings College London (see announcement ). I wrote a satirical, even rude, review of Bullmores book The inflamed mind a few years ago (see previous post ). As Ive always said, psychiatry has been too dominated by biomedical psychiatrists, like Bullmore (see eg. previous post ).

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Keeping Teens Safe in the Mirror Journaling App

Child Mind Intitute

How weve created a secure space for teens to share their thoughts At Mirror , we give teens a private space to write about their feelings, allowing them to express themselves freely and make the most of their journaling practice. We know that privacy is essential for genuine self-expression, which is what makes journaling powerful. But we also know that safety is important.

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21 Freaking Ways To Beat That Self-Doubt Monster

Sanity Daily

5/5 - (1 vote) Beating self-doubt as a woman is as important as you breathe without even thinking about it. Because it is very easy to judge and doubt your own efforts when no one is clapping for you. Self-doubt and procrastination are not only time thieves but energy killers too. They ruin the beauty of your life and destroy your goals. When you doubt your own feelings, emotions, efforts, commitment, dedication, and determination, you lose control of your life.

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Researchers awarded ARIA funding for future adoption of neurotechnologies

Department of Psychiatry News

Associate Professor Apostolos Tsiachristas is part of a team that has been awarded funding from the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) to advance research that could unlock next-generation precision neurotechnologies.

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Hello world!

American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists (AACP)

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

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Hello world!

American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists (AACP)

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

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