Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

I hope that by telling it, I can help others find a better way to manage their own healthcare, diagnoses, and whatever medications they may or may not choose to take. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal.

Insurance

Dr. Deb

MAY 15, 2025

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Self-awareness

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.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

JULY 28, 2025

The Asylum opened in 1816 as part of Massachusetts General Hospital, and then was renamed after John McLean, a merchant and benefactor. The Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital was placed out of sight across the river from the thriving city of Philadelphia. By 1916 the Asylum had 8,000 public-funded patients. In 1844 Luther V.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

He was confused, not fully out of the psychotic episode that had landed him in the hospital weeks before. The topic of mental health is on the public’s mind, whether it’s the popularizing of therapy speak, the increased attention paid to severe mental illness and homelessness, or pop psychology advice on TikTok.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

The author, Erik Rudi, voluntarily relinquishes the authority of being a “psychologist” and “healthcare professional.” I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. The author, Erik Rudi. Psychologists cure nothing.

Sleep and mental health

Lightwork

APRIL 17, 2025

Navigating medication safety during pregnancy can feel overwhelming, especially for women managing mental health conditions. While it’s FDA-approved for treating nausea related to chemotherapy and surgery, many healthcare providers prescribe it “off-label” for pregnancy-related morning sickness.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Advocates push for “housing first” as a solution for the homeless to solve their problems, which allows unconditional housing as a right regardless of mental health or addiction status. Providing long-term shelter without strings attached does not pay dividends to Governor Newsom’s healthcare industry donors.

Sleep and mental health

Credible Mind

JANUARY 29, 2025

Rethink Mental Health Intermountain Health and CredibleMind Offer Mental Health Resources and Tools Customized mental wellbeing platform to be integrated and offered community wide to boost health equity, promote early intervention, and streamline care access SAUSALITO, Calif.

Aging and mental health

Doctors In Distress Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

by Dr Anna Baverstock and Dr Jess Morgan Dr Anna Baverstock is a consultant community paediatrician at Somerset Hospitals Foundation Trust and lead for senior doctor wellbeing @anna_annabav Dr Jess Morgan is a paediatrician and Dinwoodie RCPCH Clinical fellow @doc_bipolar The workplace experiences of doctors in the UK continue to be very concerning.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. This distinction is important because the MD is basically a practitioner degree (which is appropriate for the practitioner) and not a research degree, which unfortunately has shaped the quality of healthcare in the 20 th century and beyond. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare.

Healthcare

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. Psychiatry has been going down this mental disease road for 75 years or more, and I doubt, for psychiatry, that there is any turning back. The patient self-administers the esketamine nasal spray under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a certified doctor’s office or clinic.

Healthcare

Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2024

She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was transferred to the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal, a psychiatric hospital housed in an imposing white mansion on Mount Royal. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasnt just the breakit was what happened in the hospital.

Hospitality

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I found a very informative letter dated years after Mom’s hospitalization addressed to her new psychiatrist. But the drugs failed to help my mother’s depression, and Dad told the doctor that “by the end of May ’59 she was so bad…I didn’t see how she could avoid hospitalization.”

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

I’ve come here from the surgical emergency department, where I spent a week to date before having my third mental breakdown that spring. Even before that, I had had covid and sustained long-term breathing difficulties that the health center refused to investigate. I don’t know if there is a custom of modesty in hospitals.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 23, 2024

She was never again able to function at the high level she did before, sleeping a lot at first and then developing insomnia afterward. She spent three years living with us, in and out of short stays in psychiatric hospitals, getting more and more depressed. And that is when the window of opportunity closed.

Hospitality

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Vibrant Says… Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant) is described as “one of the nation’s leading mental health organizations.” But never have I ever ‘secret shopped’ anything in the ‘mental health’ world before. Mental health system providers rarely apologize, so that was meaningful even if only a small thing.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Little did it know that this incident would alter the course of the nation’s approach to mental health care. For centuries, this dargah had attracted pilgrims from diverse faiths, all drawn by the belief in the shrine’s miraculous powers to cure mental ailments brought on by evil spirits, djinns , and black magic.

Sleep and mental health

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.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

I don’t think there’s enough actual oversight, whether civilian or governmental, of the mental health system, and it does a ton of harm.” Every time I was in the hospital, they always had a little flier that said, ‘Know your Rights.’ “They’re good people and they give a s**t,” he said of the volunteers. “I

Legal

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.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

She was taken to the hospital, and a few days later, they diagnosed her with schizophrenia. She was transferred to the Allen Memorial Hospital in Montreal, a psychiatric hospital housed in an imposing white mansion on Mount Royal. Like you said, the pivotal moment wasn’t just the break—it was what happened in the hospital.

Hospitality

Mad in America

JULY 26, 2024

He went to the hospital—subdued and in custody—for his wounds, and I went to the hospital for mine. One was for anxiety, one was for sleep, one was to help my heart rhythm for panic attacks—something for everything I described and couldn’t understand was happening to my body. I deserved to be Meagan again. It wasn’t easy.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] Katinka ended up in the private Florence Nightingale psychiatric hospital in London.

Aging and mental health

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?

Sleep and mental health

Department of Psychiatry News

JULY 1, 2025

Valeria Frighi Dr Frighi was a Senior Clinical Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Her work focused on improving health outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities and those experiencing severe mental illness.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. Life expectancy has increased globally due to advancements in medical technology, better hygiene, and improved access to healthcare.

Resilience and coping

Zencare

MARCH 3, 2025

Mental health professionals recommend ongoing support to help manage mood swings, prevent relapses, and ensure overall well-being. There are different types of mood episodes: Manic episodes (severe symptoms that may require hospitalization). Sleep deprivation with little need for rest. Impulsive decision-making (e.g.,

Bipolar disorder

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.

Neurotransmitters and mental health

Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Peer respites are an innovative and cost effective alternative to psychiatric hospitalization, and these resources are badly needed across the country. In late 2022, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) issued a public request for grant proposals, and our organization was chosen to create and operate a peer respite in Southern Oregon.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

JUNE 29, 2024

The theme of the conference was public mental health. Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals. This is known as the Movement for Global Mental Health.

Global mental health

Mad in America

JULY 30, 2024

Recovery activists and Black Panthers in the 1970s experimented with ear points to arrive at a simple procedure that community health workers could safely apply it in underserved areas of the world. Acudetox arrived here to the Mescalero reservation in 2001. I perennially surprise my small self witnessing the hidden heroism of those people.

Education