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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

Mad in America

This parallels Micha Frazer-Carrolls argument that mainstream mental health awareness campaigns tend to normalize mental illness for the so-called worried well, while deliberately excluding those deemed mad or seriously mentally ill. As a result, this promotes the funneling of the mad toward psychiatry and institutional care.

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

Mad in America

While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. Many were not aware of these risks prior to starting them. Millions of others share this experience.

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The Key to Critical Self-Awareness

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

… You may be wondering how all of this squares with the conventional wisdom that peoples self-esteem needs careful nurturing and protecting, especially in the case of kids, if they are to thrive and succeed.

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

Mad in America

Consensus reality would have us believe that increased compulsory schooling equals increased education, however, a critical thinker questions this certainty. If a major part of true education is inspiring and energizing us to be curious and enjoy reading, there is empirical evidence of standard schooling’s anti-educational effects.

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How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

Mad in America

Financial disadvantage, unemployment, low income, low education or low material standard of living directly impacts mental health. It is important to educate people on how to process the pain in a constructive manner, how to give oneself more options or how to find more options in scarce circumstances.

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“What to Expect After Your AuDHD Diagnosis”

ADDitude

My tendency to self-isolate. Take This Self-Test: Autism in Girls ] But thats just the tip of the iceberg. Youll Develop a New Interest: AuDHD Awareness and Advocacy One of the pleasant surprises of my post-diagnosis existence was the opportunity to hyperfixate on a good cause. The executive dysfunction that plagued me.

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Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment

Mad in America

However, careless, discouraging drive-by comments on a social media platform may have unintended consequences, even if meant to be educational. Telling people theyre destined for the worst possible outcome can create a self-fulfilling “nocebo” effect, reinforcing the very dependence they seek to escape.