Mad in America

APRIL 15, 2025

Psychiatric medications are often offered as the default solutionbut without complementary options such as therapy, community support, or trauma-informed care, these prescriptions can become long-term crutches rather than bridges to healing. According to OECD data, South Korea has the highest suicide rate among member nations.

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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. From the safety of ones surroundings to access to proper nutrition, sleep, and social stability, the circumstances of life have a lasting biochemical effect on the brain. These areas of the brain impact how a person reacts to the world.

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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

MAY 13, 2025

The way we think about mental distress today is based on a big mistakethat emotional pain comes from brain chemistry problems rather than from people’s experiences, social conditions, and how they make sense of things. Doctors stopped seeing distress as a reaction to life events. Now, they focused on managing symptoms.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 12, 2025

Author(s): Joseph F. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon) Now more than ever, capturing and scaling the ingredients that make for compelling and impactful teaching for trainees is vital to our future. andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The Danish Psychiatry Top Summit (“Psykiatritopmødet”) is an annual event that is organized by a social-activist organization called The Social Network (“Det Sociale Netværk”). T he text that follows is the English translation of a speech I gave at The Danish Psychiatry Top Summit in 2024. W e need a revolution.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. She is also a writer and producer on Netflix’s 3 Body Problem.

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Lightwork

APRIL 10, 2025

Life’s challenging experiences can leave deep emotional scars that persist long after the initial event. These lingering wounds, known as unresolved trauma, can silently shape our behaviors, relationships, and daily experiences without us even realizing it. Many women share similar experiences.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

JUNE 23, 2025

If you felt as though your heart broke, or you’d been punched in the gut, that’s because social rejection and physical pain share the same neural circuitry in the brain, according to research by Naomi Eisenberger , a professor of social psychology at UCLA. … Write a letter but don’t send it. . … Write a letter but don’t send it.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The agenda of the launch event is here , and the full video here ). This outlines in considerable detail the current international legislative framework with which mental health acts in signatory nations need to comply, and provides examples to show how each element of the law can be implemented and tested.

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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. M y brother Jesse sat next to me on the couch in my living room. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us. My mind raced. I believed my brother’s life was in danger.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals. Trauma fragments our being as we disconnect from our experiences, suppress our feelings and hide away our wounded parts. When trauma is healed, so do our bodies. When trauma is healed, so do our bodies.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping, by Cornelia Elbrecht, is an in-depth instructional textbook for the somatic therapeutic approach Guided Drawing. Based on leading edge understandings about trauma healing and the body (sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, etc.),

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The Art of Healing Trauma

JUNE 25, 2020

When we remember and then begin to do a writing practice about the memory, we are turning on many parts of our brains and awareness to interact with the memory, such as new knowledge, new experiences, and other frames of reference that did not exist when the experience happened.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

Eleven years earlier a deeply damaging romantic relationship had coincided with a series of other stressful events and precipitated a manic episode, which then progressed to psychosis once I was trapped in the terrifying environment of the psychiatric ward. Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in the UK.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This was the onset of the “tic” that would haunt me for years as a foreboding precursor to “events.” Scuffling whispers echoing in the hall and in my brain halted, followed by a brief but sacred silence. Nevertheless, like USS Arizona and Utah, I lay immobile from what felt like a sneak attack. The voice was comfortingly familiar.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MAY 17, 2025

Unlike generalized anxiety or depression, PTSD develops specifically as a result of psychological trauma. This could be a car accident, natural disaster, loss of a loved one, abuse, combat, or any event that overwhelms a persons sense of safety or control. The most important is its origin: trauma. Yes, it is.

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Child Mind Intitute

MARCH 24, 2025

OCD, ADHD, conduct disorders, psychotic disorders, and trauma disorders also occur. Others may have IDD as a result of a brain injury or epilepsy. Researchers note that the risk of developing mental health disorders may be increased by some genetic conditions, as well as abnormalities in brain development, associated with IDD.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

But my lived experience goes back to childhoodIve dealt with trauma, major depression, suicide attempts, some addiction problems, and night terrors. B ecky Brasfield has emerged as a formidable advocate for change in the complex landscape of mental health care.A The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

APRIL 3, 2025

For those seeking a gentler, whole-body approach, holistic trauma healing focuses on treating the mind , body, and spirit rather than just suppressing symptoms. Breathwork and Meditation Breathwork and meditation help rewire the brains response to stress and trauma by activating the parasympathetic nervous system, which promotes relaxation.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 20, 2023

There appears to be more dopamine uptake due to the antipsychotic-induced brain compensatory mechanism as a response to the suppressed blockade state in an effort to achieve energy equilibrium. A fter 22 years and many attempts I finally stopped taking antipsychotics.

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Solara Mental Health

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Traumatic events, like a violent assault or military combat, can overwhelm a person’s positive coping skills. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Traumatic events, like a violent assault or military combat, can overwhelm a person’s positive coping skills. Numbers taken from the U.S.

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Zencare

APRIL 21, 2025

The trauma stories we carry. In this piece, well explore why we keep falling for these dangerous dynamics, how fantasy and unresolved trauma shape attraction, why audiences sympathize with TV show villains, and what Joe Goldberg can teach us about emotional survival and self-protection. On a trauma level, Joe mimics attunement.

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Now Psych

MAY 20, 2024

While the exact cause is still not clear, most experts point to a combination of genetics, brain chemistry and structure, and environment. Stressful events like trauma and substance abuse can trigger onset of or make symptoms worse in people who might be vulnerable. How Common is Schizoaffective Disorder?

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The Art of Healing Trauma

JULY 22, 2021

Summary: In this article, I go over a number of cognitive difficulties I experienced after getting PTSD. In the Snapshot (story) part, I describe an experience of riding in the car after my third Somatic Experiencing Session. Then I talk about how my nervous system felt right after getting SE treatment. Terrible Short Term Memory (2.)

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Solara Mental Health

MAY 11, 2022

This condition causes flashbacks that feel realistic, nightmares, and other negative memories of traumatic events. These flashbacks to wartime events have long-term effects, impacting approximately 10-20 percent of veterans. However, it is important that service animal assistance is combined with other treatment options.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2024

There are a few potential causes and shared symptoms that may explain why these two disorders often coexist: Biological Factors: Both bipolar and anxiety disorders are linked to imbalances in brain chemistry. Have you noticed them feeling anxious during their manic episodes or perhaps experiencing panic attacks while feeling down?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 12, 2024

I was experiencing my first manic episode, brought on by a traumatic event. I reacted to my emotions with the weight of stress on my chest. I was assaulted, by someone who was supposed to love and protect me. I confided in my mother, who seemed to believe me at first. I struck out in a place of fear, anger, and pain. I was troubled.

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Zencare

JANUARY 23, 2025

Unf*ck Your Brain by Faith G. Harper Ever feel like your brain is working against you? Dr. Faith Harper gets it and shes here with no-nonsense advice to help you tackle anxiety, depression, and all the other ways your brain might freak out. Ive done trauma therapy in the past, but this is what worked for me.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 29, 2025

Host zge Grcanl Fischer-Baum is joined by Jessica Fritz from Osnabruck University, and Marilyn Piccirillo from the Rutgers Addiction Research Center and Brain Health Institute, who are among the coauthors of a new article published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. Thank you so much for the invite.

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Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

This year marked a significant milestone for the Child Mind Institutes Youth Mental Health Academy (YMHA) a community-based program that provides hands-on knowledge and skills development to underserved youth.

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Kids Mental Health Info

APRIL 6, 2015

Reasons for Bedwetting Here are 3 of the most common reasons for bedwetting, according to the AAP: Communication between the brain and bladder. If the bladder signals the brain that it’s filling up with urineand the brain doesn’t send a message back to the bladder to relax and hold the urine until morningbedwetting will happen.

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The London Psychiatry Centre

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Neuroscience has demonstrated that outrage can arouse the brains reward centres. Or maybe youve been feeling flat but you suspect that underneath that sensation is ongoing frustration, anger and irritability. If youre concerned about anger and mental health, youre not the only one. But what happens when you get angry too much?

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Lightwork

JUNE 5, 2025

Understanding High-Functioning Anxiety in Women High-functioning anxiety presents a unique paradox in women’s mental health. It’s characterized by the ability to maintain successful careers, relationships, and daily responsibilities while battling intense internal struggles.

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Lightwork

APRIL 3, 2025

This simple act of writing helps your brain make sense of difficult experiences. The simple act of putting pen to paper creates a direct connection between your thoughts and emotions, helping you process difficult experiences. Journaling becomes a form of self-therapy, helping you gain clarity and perspective on challenging situations.

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How Psychiatry Works

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This post is built on what I often say to adult clients with ADHD. ADHD has advantages as well as challenges We start by countering the negatives about ADHD. This form of neurodiversity comes with definite advantages along with the challenges. The motivational factor is the reason why others’ suggestions usually don’t work.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

Accept all cookies Reject all non-essential cookies Find out more Accessibility Cookies Contact us IT Support Knowledge Base Log in About News Events Our research Study with us Work with us Our team 60 seconds with. It also records data millisecond-by-millisecond, meaning it can track neural oscillation (or ‘brain waves’) in real time.

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