Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

In the article, Torrey reviews the history of the Human Genome Project, their hopes for identifying the genetic basis for schizophrenia, and how those hopes have been dashed by the complete failure to find anything of the sort. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

I was in the hospital with an undiagnosable physical illness that presented with multiple, some would say peculiar, symptoms. I probably would have died in the psych hospital because they refused to let me go to the medical hospital for a feeding tube. I had no history whatsoever of mental health issues or mental illness.

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Dr. Moncrieff is a psychiatrist who works in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Moncrieff: When I was in medical school we were taught, as we’re still officially taught now, the biopsychosocial model of mental disorders. Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital.

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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. medical schools. Worldwide, there are parallels to U.S. Iatrogenesis , which is defined as illness or injury caused by medical treatment.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Searching for the Psychiatric Yeti: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic In January, Peter Simons wrote that the decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Nor have any new treatments become available from this research.

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ADDitude

MAY 23, 2025

The MAHA Report , spearheaded by Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Robert F. It disregards the genetic underpinnings of ADHD to suggest it is caused by environmental factors and foods, twists data to stoke fear over rising diagnosis rates, and excludes a wealth of studies that link stimulant medication use to improved health outcomes.

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Mad in America

JULY 25, 2024

I was now terrified to leave my home and so it had taken several panic attacks just to get to the hospital. My mental health went down fast this time. All those symptoms came back and worse until I was unable to get out of my bedroom, stuck in a world of mental terror. They beat me so hard I ‘knew’ I was going to die.

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Real Psychiatry

APRIL 18, 2025

Two questionnaires were administered at baseline one to look at psychosocial determinants and risk factors for mental illness and the other for substance use history. The short-term goal is stabilizing them enough for hospital discharge with a plan to minimize or eliminate recurrent episodes.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. For Illich, the iatrogenesis of modern medicine is clinical when harm to individuals results specifically from medical treatment.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Within this, some parts of the neurodiversity movement take an uncritical or neutral perspective on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses such as—but not limited to—ASD and ADHD, backed up by unsubstantiated claims about biological and genetic causal factors. This heterogeneity makes it difficult to generalise.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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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. My eyes were first opened during a clinical psychology internship at a local psychiatric hospital.

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. 8,9,11-14 In 2019, a Norwegian study found that 52 of 100 consecutively admitted patients to a psychiatric hospital would have wanted a drug-free alternative if it had existed.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Hospitality 143

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. He sets out to study the genetics of schizophrenia, through twins.

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Mad in America

JUNE 28, 2024

She also revealed that a neighbor had to take us to the hospital. I believed my alcoholism was genetic and treated it as a spiritual malady. The long-term effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are not limited to mental health problems, not by a long shot. She doesn’t remember why Dad didn’t go. I can smile.

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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. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? What Causes Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

It influences one or more mental functions, including memory, orientation, mood, judgment, and behavioral and social functioning. Epidemiology: The "Who" and the "Why" 5 , 6 , 7 SUDs are a major public health issue, leading to substantial morbidity, mortality, and economic burden.

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.

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Aging and mental health Hospitality Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health 145

Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 2, 2025

Genetic predisposition, a history of trauma, mental health disorders, and even the accessibility of opioids all contribute to an individuals vulnerability to addiction. Fentanyl : Although sometimes used in hospital settings, illicit fentanyl is also manufactured and distributed on the street. What is Opioid Detox Like?

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Mad in America

JANUARY 16, 2024

S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The truth is that, in our “diagnostic culture,” all these behaviors and emotions will be translated as symptoms of some mental disorder classified in the DSM. In his words: “Hospitals are part of life in this world. That anguished search ended, tragically, with her first psychiatric hospitalization.

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ADDitude

APRIL 16, 2025

and suggested that the diagnosis of ADHD was arbitrary because it relies not on a biomarkers or genetic tests, but on a trained clinicians careful review of patients self-reported and observed symptoms in several settings. Tough dismissed the lifelong work of esteemed ADHD researcher Russell Barkley, Ph.D. , The late Joseph Biederman, M.D.,

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Zencare

JANUARY 22, 2025

There are 298 mental health conditions currently recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition-TR, which is the standard reference for clinical practice among trained, licensed mental health professionals, in the US. Written by Rebekah Ferguson, LMHC.

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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. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Serious mental illness can lead to psychiatric contact and the use of other psychiatric drugs and to a suicide attempt. Number eight was my comment on the National Board of Health’s website. ” The authors presented another analysis in which they had adjusted for psychiatric hospital contact.

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Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Pharmaceuticals 145

Bullet Psych

AUGUST 12, 2022

Individuals with other mental disorders may display a disordered relationship with food or their body image but not meet full criteria for anorexia. Mental health treatment should be focused on psychotherapy as opposed to medication management.

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