Mad in America

MARCH 27, 2025

Hope Moon Event poster generated with the help ofChatGPTandDALL-E But to understand my story of hope, we have to go back to the beginning. When emotionally devastating events happened to me, I would really struggle. And soon, I will get this entire sequence in a brief 2 hours, while my beautiful Luna flies in Virgo, my Zodiac sign.

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Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

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The Online Therapist

MARCH 16, 2025

Someone who is disciplined may give us solace in the event that we are lacking structure. Those of us who battle with self-assurance may find ourselves drawn to someone who is aggressive. In the beginning, these characteristics might make us feel excited and complementary. It seems as if the other person "completes" us.

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Mad in America

MAY 19, 2025

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Mad in America

MAY 11, 2025

It was an association between two events taking place closely in timethe feeders coming into the room and the dogs getting fed. When dog feeders came into the dogs room without food , the dogs still produced saliva, as if food was present. Pavlov called this a conditional reflex. Emotional Conditioning Homer B.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2024

H uman behavior is shaped by a complex interplay of lifes events, conditions, and circumstances. For instance, a person who behaves differently may have been exposed to conditions and events that are anything but common. To truly understand a persons actions and behaviors, one must ask: What was this person exposed to?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2025

What I really respected about the whole event was that I just could do my thing. I was surrounded by people who had these incredible violent experiences in the psych wards, and I was one of the people who had participated in this kind of violence. It was not forced.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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OCTOBER 8, 2024

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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Mad in America

APRIL 17, 2025

Little did she know ending that call would set off events she would regret. I did not want to keep burdening my family and friends with my problems, Isbell said. But she didnt find the sympathetic ear she was hoping for on the other end. Frustrated, she hung up.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I did not get jokes, or references to famous people, places, or events. I can only say half, maybe less, of big eventful happenings I can remember a month later. When we settled in at the hut, I was like a bump on a log. Sitting with the others, so very close in quarters, but so very disconnected. I’m NOT 46 years old! Frustrating.

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Mad in America

MAY 18, 2025

While they spent their first year as a team learning to work together and determining a pace that fit everyones needs, theyre now excited to grow their network, beginning with a small event where the group will meet with others whose projects align with their mission.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

The process of creation of trauma usually happens when people are not able to process a certain event which exceeds their ability to cope and it is too overwhelming. This constitutes the re-enactment of the original event that has overwhelmed the organism. Rationally, a person can be aware of this.

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Asian Journal of Psychiatry

APRIL 20, 2025

Publication date: Available online 19 April 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Alcia Colomer-Salvans, Regina Vila-Badia, Clara Serra-Arum, Ariadna Corbella-Sotil, Manuel Abella, Jordina Tor, Arnau Carmona, Aida Fernndez-Sanz, Nria del Cacho, Anna Butjosa, Judith Usall, PROFEP Group

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Mad in America

AUGUST 6, 2024

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Prior to the 1990s, people generally thought of depression, in particular, as a reaction to life events. You need a hypothesis to test. And the serotonin hypothesis was a testable hypothesis. And they thought that taking drugs to modify your mood was generally not a good idea.

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Mad in America

APRIL 15, 2025

Many of my patients began medication not after a traumatic event or persistent disorder, but simply because they were feeling overwhelmed during exams or going through a breakup.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 10, 2025

In total, the studies comprised 3,203 participants, some of whom had experienced a traumatic event. Thinking about their trauma in different ways instead of essentially reliving it could help a person work through a painful event, Yeung explained. In the first study, participants ranged in age between 18 and 83.

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ADDitude

MAY 13, 2025

For others, body image struggles may be triggered by later-in-life events. Divorce, an empty nest, widowhood, and other life events may lead to or reactivate disordered eating. These include: Perimenopause and menopause. 4 Aging and unrealistic ideals. Transitions.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Childhood trauma and further adverse events in adulthood such as bullying, social discrimination or exclusion, migration or visibly marginalized status may, for example, increase risk of developing what is then labeled as psychotic disorder.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 14, 2025

when temperatures were below freezing, a higher increase than the social spike seen during an event like the Boston Marathon, Minor explained. In these cases, social media posting rose above some of the largest social events in the United States, up to three times more activity than New Years Eve in New York City.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

The mania, paranoia, delusional thoughts and rage I’d been experiencing in the days and weeks leading up to this event became an untenable crisis. My older children had been angry with me for years because I had not corrected the bad information they’d been told about my psychotic events.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

MAY 22, 2025

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) is pleased to share with its global community an important upcoming event hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO): the launch webinar of WHOs new guide, Educating Medical and Nursing Students in Mental, Neurological and Substance Use (MNS) Care.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Through a series of events that took place in my late 20s and early 30s, I began to live with depression. Looking back on my latest visit to the hospital I discovered some things that might have gone unnoticed if this event never took place. As we grow older and our lives change we experience new things, some good, some bad.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Mary has also supported me personally while I was in an extreme state, keynote at a PeerZone event—her ways of being with me exemplified mutual aid, enabling me to navigate my extreme state outside of the carceral mental health system, including presenting my keynote, held in collective care.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2024

My concern is that this tone blames the victim and I would like to offer a few thoughts from my experience and from the rich literature on childhood adverse events. .'” The essence of the first half of the article is nobody is perfect, get over it. Not blame; it is simply how nature works.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The therapy was based on strong science: DBT incorporates some classic techniques from therapy, such as cognitive reappraisal , or reframing negative events in a more positive way, and it also includes more avant-garde techniques such as mindfulness, the practice of being in the present moment.

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