Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2025

As can be seen, the article is informing readers that science had spoken, and the verdict was in. Once Barry informed me of her sources, I wrote Hilary Stout, Deputy Health and Science Editor at The New York Times. ” The article is informing readers that Inner Compass is linking to studies that can’t be trusted.

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Department of Psychiatry News

MARCH 25, 2025

Two researchers in the Department of Psychiatry contributed to key government reports on mental health for MPs and other policy makers.

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 18, 2025

Research from the 2025 APA Annual Meeting reveals a strong link between borderline personality disorder and problematic internet use, highlighting impulsivity and compulsivity in affected individuals.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

According to the author, this is a clear breach of informed consent. The failure to be informed, and to inform, may be understand able if psychiatrists are relying on inaccurate guidelines, drug company information or cultural norms within psychiatry.

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Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2025

Moncrieff and her co-authors succinctly summarized the public health implications for antidepressant prescriptions in a follow-up BMJ comment : The public should be aware that we dont know what antidepressants do to the brain or how they work to allow more informed choices about their treatment.

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Mad in America

MARCH 31, 2025

In a new article , mental health nurse Timothy Wand argues for conservative use of psychiatric drugs, for advising patients of the risks of the drugs, and for informing patients there is no known biological cause for mental illness. He suggests that mental health nursing has a key role to play in helping people discontinue the drugs.

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Critical Psychiatry

MARCH 20, 2025

In a reply to a letter from Peter Gtzsche, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency ( MHRA ) has made clear that it has no current plans to remove the references to chemical imbalance in the Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) of antidepressants (see reply ). previous post ).

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Mad in America

APRIL 18, 2025

A trauma-informed, art-based, deeply invested-in-people kind of counselor. . “Youre highly anxious,” she said. “This will help regulate the serotonin levels in your brain. Youll think more clearly.” ” The irony? I was a counselor. I had trained for this. Believed in the body-mind-spirit connection.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2025

In other words, it speculates about underlying dysfunctions of chemical and mechanical bodily processes displayed in symptoms and that can inform optimal treatment. That model assesses pathology. To qualify as dysfunction, the physiology must be working contrary to how it is structured for its role in keeping us alive.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Any wonder, when for decades, people have been deluged with information suggesting that depression is caused by a “chemical imbalance” in the brain—specifically, low levels of serotonin. Is there a programme of work to inform various sectors such as social workers, pharmacists, and GPs, as a starting point? This is simply not the case.

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Psychiatric Times

MARCH 6, 2025

All we can do is try our best to stay informed. The impacts of this pandemic continue to ripple. Thats where we come in.

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Mad in America

APRIL 29, 2025

The well-known psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams argues that while most clinicians can agree that psychotherapy should be informed by research, it cannot be like research, which is an unspoken assumption at the heart of the evidence-based craze. But psychotherapy is notand never will bea one-size-fits-all approach.

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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. South Koreas mental health crisis is not simply a matter of individual symptoms.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

One is on conflicts of interest in medicine broadly, looking at influential information sources that are used by physicians and other healthcare providers. That information wasn’t available. So, we wanted to help them out, if you will, and get this information into the public domain. I have two lines of research.

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The Online Therapist

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

It is not technically in the self-help genre, more technical, but it holds information essential to understanding how we see relationships. Change your thinking and change your life. However, there is one book that I have returned to many times.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Together, we have created a movement that rejects coercion, force, and pharmaceutical propaganda and embraces informed consent, individual choice, and alternative ways to deal with distress. People have the right to take informed risks if that’s what they want. What about the basis for informed consent?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It seems pretty clear that prescribers are not as informed as they should be. Being adequately educated about psychiatric drugs means knowing enough about what they’re prescribing to give patients the opportunity to provide informed consent to treatment. So poorly informed, they’re putting patients in danger.

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National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

MAY 15, 2025

It’s about creating spaces where trust can flourish, where trauma-informed approaches and hope-centered practices replace judgment, and where mothers feel empowered rather than diminished. Supporting postpartum individuals in long-term recovery from SUDs requires a holistic, trauma-informed and family-centered approach.

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Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2025

How did that clinical experience inform your thinking about what you would like to see in your journal? At that point, I was not even informed what was going on. It changed my life because it presented information that I could report on, and to lose that is just crushing. I’m resigning. What are you going to do?

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ADDitude

MAY 19, 2025

May 19, 2025 Typing and handwriting lecture notes are equally effective methods for helping students with ADHD learn and recall information presented in class, and each one is far superior to taking no notes, finds a new study conducted by researchers at Indiana University. Susan Kreuger, M.Ed.,

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Psychiatric Times

MAY 12, 2025

Here, you can find important information about recognizing the signs of the stroke to share with patients. May is American Stroke Month.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 1, 2024

. “This has never been properly investigated and described, and there is an urgent need to understand the incidence, prevalence, and natural history of PSSD, with a focus on informing prevention as well as investigating treatments.” ” You've landed on a MIA journalism article that is funded by MIA supporters.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Overall, sensitivity is a heightened ‘ability to perceive, process, and respond deeply to one’s environment,’ which means sensitive people absorb more sensory information (often unconsciously), think more deeply, and find more interconnections among disparate things than less sensitive people typically do. Sensory intelligence.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its a harsh reality, but one that most patients are never informed about. We need to start informing patients about these risksbefore they become another needless casualty in the growing crisis of psychiatric drug-induced harm. T aking psychiatric medications long-term is like playing Russian roulette.

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Mad in America

MARCH 25, 2025

Training and Cultural Change Healthcare professionals need training in non-coercive crisis management, trauma-informed care, and community-oriented practices. Rights-based legislation can drive cultural change and accountability.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This discussion provides essential information to protect and promote your health.” They delve into institutional corruption, misinformation, the shift from prevention to treatment, and the urgent need for healthcare reform.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

He could see something wasnt right, and once he had obtained a copy of the STAR*D protocol through a freedom of information (FOI) request, he and his colleagues, starting with a paper published in 2009, were able to detail the ways that the STAR*D investigators had deviated from the protocol to inflate their published remission rates.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I do not think that anyone who has not already experienced akathisia can realistically be prepared for this possibility through informed consent; it is simply too uncomfortable to be fully imagined in advance. As a consequence of tapering, akathisia is devastating. This is what keeps me from my string of withdrawal clinics.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The studys results indicate the following impacts of various types of exercise on children with ADHD: Cognitive-aerobic exercise demonstrates the most significant effect on working memory, or the capacity for holding and using information over a short period of time. Mind-Body Exercise for Working Memory Mind-body exercises (e.g.,

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Mad in America

MAY 18, 2025

One thing people with experience point out is that people that have access to English are able to access all these groups and all this information, says Vilas-Boas. Translations of material from other Mad in the World affiliate sites and various places around the Internet are also prominent on Mad in Portugals website.

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MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

APRIL 8, 2025

By implementing trauma-informed strategies, healthcare providers can help create a safe and supportive environment for sexual trauma survivors during pregnancy, labor, and delivery.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 6, 2024

’ There’s some very useful information in those words. .’ Allred tweeted this in response to writer Ashlee Vance sharing that he’d been told by a venture capitalist, ‘We’ve lost several really good founders to ayahuasca. They came back and just didn’t care about much anymore.’ I mean, think about it.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

Mark co-authored the recent Royal College of Psychiatry’s guidance on stopping antidepressants, and his work has informed the recent NICE guidelines on the safe tapering of psychiatric medications, including antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and z-drugs. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 6, 2024

With 70% of patients desiring to quit antipsychotics, the authors emphasize the ethical responsibility of clinicians to support informed and patient-driven decisions. They argue that slow tapering and careful monitoring can mitigate risks, ensuring that the principles of nonmaleficence and beneficence are upheld.

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The Anxiety Guy

MAY 23, 2025

Its a digital-age twist on hypochondria but with access to endless (often unfiltered) information at your fingertips. Most of the time, the answer isnt more information its more inner regulation through presence, Surrender Sessions on YouTube , and a reminder that all this is coming from a part of you, but it’s not you.

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Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2024

The authors conclude: “ C lients need to be informed about potential adverse effects and alternative treatment options; and the treatment team need to ask questions to understand the effects of treatments so that tweaks and changes can be agreed together.

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ADDitude

APRIL 30, 2025

Join ADDitude in sharing the following information during Women’s Health Month in May. And check back daily for updates. “Women Need Better, More Accurate Diagnostic Tools for ADHD” “Most diagnostic tools have been developed by men and screen for symptoms seen in boys with ADHD.” Removed

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