Mad in America
APRIL 30, 2024
A n article in a Danish newspaper from 14 April was very frustrating to read but was typical for the totally uncritical way journalists deal with issues in psychiatry. It was about the fact that significantly more middle-aged and older people receive an ADHD diagnosis today than earlier. This, the readers were supposed to think, was a good thing. The article says that children do not outgrow their ADHD diagnosis.
Mental Health America (MHA)
MAY 2, 2024
Youth Mental Health Data in the Context of OMB SPD 15 May 02, 2024 MHA Admin Thu, 05/02/2024 - 16:10 Download the Youth Mental Health Data report In 2024, for the first time since 1997, the Office of Management and Budget published revised standards for federal data on race and ethnicity, but more progress is needed to better understand mental health disparities in the U.S.
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Dr. Deb
MAY 1, 2024
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The designation of Mental Health Awareness Month was created more than 60 years ago by Mental Health America to raise awareness about mental health conditions and the importance of mental wellness and promoting good mental health for all. During Mental Health Awareness Month professionals, organizations, schools, communities, hospitals and even media outlets will join together in an effort to raise the awareness about mental health and attempt to decrease th
Mad in America
MAY 2, 2024
A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ” 1 This is one of many recent, oversimplified headlines that encourage us to think we are on the brink of discovering the next biomarker that will scientifically validate biomedical psychiatric disorders. The prevailing logic goes: if we can validate biometric tests that are clinically predictive of mental health concerns like in other medical fields, we can more precisely, effectively, and without
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Mad in America
APRIL 30, 2024
Katinka Blackford Newman, who runs the website antidepressantrisks.org , has put up a petition on change.org urging suicide prevention hotlines “to ask callers if they are taking medications” that can cause suicide. The post Petition: The Question About Medication that Can Save Lives appeared first on Mad In America.
Mad in America
APRIL 27, 2024
A fter Ed Pigott and colleagues published their patient-level reanalysis of the STAR-D results this past summer in BMJ Open, it seemed that this scandal—which is a tale of research fraud—might finally be reported on by the mainstream media, and thus burst into the American consciousness. But eight months have now passed, and while the Psychiatric Times, much to its credit, did publish a cover story of the reanalysis, American newspapers have remained mute, even though Pigott and colleagues have
Mad in America
MAY 3, 2024
triggers are slashing my mind I process the memories of one strange summer ; Where was I ? How long did I wander ? I walked a lot nowhere and everywhere, until I collapsed What was I looking for ? I found nothing but I was found lying no longer down to earth; to the ER it is – and then they gave me meds to shut up, to shut down my wonder and my wander. then later on, in the ambulance a police squad escorts me, hands tied and barely alive, thinking I’m dead, off to the psych ward, they said
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