Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics. Much has already been written about these points, for example in my book on mental health and substance use (open access).

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

© Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish. .

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

A new Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM-MEG) brain scanner has been installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), based at the Department of Psychiatry. By measuring tiny magnetic fields generated by the activity of neurons in the brain the OPM-MEG scanner reveals which areas are active during specific tasks.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. medical schools.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. After opening my private practice, one of my specialties was perinatal mental health, supporting women during pregnancy and postpartum.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop.

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Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Norton, including, The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It and Anxiety + Depression: Effective Treatment of the Big Two Co-Occurring Disorders. The first part is genetics. Its a genetic predisposition towards depression.

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Now Psych

MARCH 25, 2024

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. According to surveys, approximately 1.6% of the population has borderline personality disorder.

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Child Mind Intitute

MAY 15, 2025

Is clinical anxiety merely excessive worry or does it reflect genuine differences in how the brain processes stress? Although ADHD often prompts these debates, similar questions swirl around autism, depression, PTSD, and other brain-based conditions. Mental health disorders are similar.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. Hes a professor of psychology and the director of the Psy.D. He earned his Ph.D.

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