Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2024
In a recent study published in BMJ Mental Health , a team led by Ethan Sahker from Kyoto University’s Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, alongside an international cohort of researchers, confronts a pressing question in depression treatment: What is the smallest beneficial effect of antidepressants that patients deem worthwhile given their burdens?
Bullet Psych
JANUARY 21, 2024
Today we will discuss Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders (CRSWDs). We will cover an introduction, definitions, diagnostic criteria, risk factors, and treatment. Today's Content Level: All levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) Refresher on the Circadian Rhythm 1 Circadian rhythm = roughly 24-hour cycle that is synchronized with the day-night cycle of the Earth.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 24, 2024
A recent article published in the Health Expectations journal reveals that discontinuing the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI withdrawal) has an impact on the emotional, cognitive, and social aspects of the lives of users, in addition to causing physical withdrawal symptoms. The study, led by Raqeeb Mahmood from the University of Bath, also suggests that withdrawing from SSRIs has positive effects on health.
Mad in America
JANUARY 24, 2024
P recision medicine promises a new era of highly targeted treatments akin to precision strikes in warfare, aimed at ‘combating’ disease at the most individual, localised level. Hailed as the future of mental health care, it conjures images of medical interventions as carefully planned and executed military operations, striking with lethal accuracy at the heart of mental suffering while minimising collateral damage.
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!
Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2024
F amily estrangement is on the rise, headlines read, followed by many articles about setting healthy boundaries, communication, self-care and emotional maturity. However, a recent article titled “Growing All The Way Up” (the online version is titled “ The Words Every Adult Child Needs to Hear ,” January 2024) in Psychology Today suggests adult children estranged with their parents take control of creating the life they want by “getting past old hurts” that they may have with their pa
Mad in America
JANUARY 22, 2024
2am is a bipolar blessing. On the one hand, Her clock ticks, waking worlds away. On the other… Dreams tattoo pulses of heart, Maneuvered by her beaten, brush stroking pen. Playing on punctuation, Pushing paper preying and praying: Nevermore. Nothing remarkable here, Just another ‘Starry Starry Night’ Vincentanian Plight. Crafting worlds of her own, Growing tired of midnight awakenings, She lay in waiting.
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Mad in America
JANUARY 22, 2024
Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses increases in suicide and homicide caused by antidepressant drugs. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here.
Mad in America
JANUARY 23, 2024
O ne of the defining features in the socially constructed mental disorders in the DSM is the concept of “impairment.” In order to get a diagnosis for certain mental conditions, significant distress or disturbance in functioning in certain areas of life is required. Functional impairment may seem like a clear criterion on the surface, but in practical application, it is not in the slightest.
Mad in America
JANUARY 25, 2024
In The New York Times , Christina Jewett and Benjamin Mueller report on the widespread prescription of the asthma drug Singulair despite severe known harms including suicidality, especially among children—and despite a black-box warning added decades after the drug was first marketed amid early indications of the risks: “In early 2020, the FDA responded to decades of escalating concerns about a commonly prescribed drug for asthma and allergies by deploying one of its most potent tools: a stark
Mad in America
JANUARY 26, 2024
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.” — Joseph Campbell W ords like interconnection and oneness point to an underlying unity, an ocean of consciousness, in which we swim. And yet, as individuals with a fixed point of consciousness, humans experience the Great Mystery through a narrow lens. The tension of experiencing union as an individual is at the heart of a spiritual awakening; the desire to transcend this narrow lens, innate in humanity.
Mad in America
JANUARY 24, 2024
From Current Affairs : “The Robbins coaching formula is simple. If Robbins was able to face his fears and overcome such challenges, so can you. Victims are self-made losers. Poverty, trauma, abuse, and life-threatening illnesses can be reframed as badges of honor—opportunities to transmute life’s lemons so one can become a winner. Coaching immediately conjures up the realm of sports and gamesmanship with clear winners and losers.
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