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 30, 2025

REQUEST FOR RECEPTION OF PATIENT INTO A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL Please receive Sylvie Raymonde Leber for observation and treatment into the psychiatric hospital of which you are Superintendent for a period of 21 days subject to the provision of the Mental Health Act 1959. Id had three brief hospitalizations before Larundel.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT. The whole of my family had suffered horrendously during the seven years from 1994, when I was repeatedly hospitalized as a psychiatric patient, drugged, and given ECT.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Personality disorders Pharmaceuticals 145

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? How Common is Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Personality disorders Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Self-awareness 52

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We remind readers that we wholeheartedly respect and uphold people’s personal right to describe their difficulties and differences in any way they find helpful (although we argue that clinicians do have a duty to use concepts that are in conventional terms evidence-based). The series is being archived here.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 144

Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. The relationship between childhood trauma and later development of psychotic symptoms has received increasing attention in recent years. Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology Allan M.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Perhaps if I took a different prescription or combination of prescriptions, my brain would magically adjust and rid me of my alleged ‘chemical imbalance’. I had been diagnosed with numerous ‘disorders’ because I had a traumatic childhood. My brain sat in my skull like a dead goldfish. I was severely unwell. I was disgusted.

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