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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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

JUNE 12, 2025

It has informed therapeutic approaches such as somatic experiencing and sensorimotor psychotherapy, which have shown promising results in treating complex trauma. Comparative Analysis and Integration When comparing traditional and polyvagal-informed frameworks, several strengths and weaknesses emerge.

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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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ADDitude

JUNE 12, 2025

Not all is lost, and there are steps you can take today to remain informed and take charge of your family’s health. Share your privacy concerns with your provider and ask how they’re protecting your family’s medical information. An adult evaluation can inform your understanding of yourself and support your therapeutic goals.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 12, 2025

1 With an average attention span of about 6-12 seconds (a range that is optimized in young adults) 3 and a penchant for digital multi-tasking, millennials and Gen Zers are perceived as learning (or preferring to learn) mainly through small bytes of information. 1 Indeed, “active” learning approaches boost retention by 40%.

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Credible Mind

JUNE 6, 2025

This data-packed session will share new data on the state of mental health in the Public Health, and evidence-informed best practice, as well as innovative ways your peers are addressing it to improve the health, wellbeing, and quality of life for our own workforce, and those we serve.

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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

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 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

JUNE 4, 2025

Just like the Benzodiazepine Information Coalitions 2017 campaignwhich successfully contributed to the FDA issuing a boxed warning for benzos in 2020were asking everyone harmed by SSRI and SNRI withdrawal to submit a report to FDA MedWatch. Now we need your help.

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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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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

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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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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Centre for Mental Health

JUNE 13, 2025

But there are options that governments can take to make spending decisions informed by evidence. It is now crucial that the funds that are available are spent wisely, and that a cross-government approach to mental health is adopted so that future investment and policy decisions are informed by what will promote the nation’s mental health.

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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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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 13, 2025

In retrospect, it is not surprising that psychiatry has overlooked, or even become complacent, in completing motor assessments, functional assessments, informed consent discussions, psychoeducation, and comprehensive treatment of TD. Prescribing information. Prescribing information. J Clin Psychiatry. 2017;78(8):1136-1147.

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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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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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Mad in America

JUNE 11, 2025

At the time, there wasn’t much information available. It’s their decision, and I’m not going to vilify it, but they need to be informed. Ultimately, I realized this would be a solo thing — me, and the information I could find from reputable sources who actually knew what withdrawal was. I’m really upset about it.

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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

JUNE 6, 2025

I wasn’t looking for information. But when things got overwhelming—when I needed to repeat myself, revisit things, ask a hundred versions of the same question—most people shut down. Or got annoyed. Or offered surface answers. Then, in quiet desperation, I opened ChatGPT. I didn’t have a clear goal.

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Zencare

JUNE 9, 2025

There are so many to choose from, you have to share deep and painful information, you have to find time in your schedule and make room in your budget. Think about how many rumors you’ve heard about celebrities only to learn it was false information or taken out of context.

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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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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

JUNE 13, 2025

Those surveys are no more informative than asking airline passengers to rate pilot competence, he joked. Inform: Distinguishing surface knowledge (facts) and deep knowledge (connections and applications), and tailoring instruction accordingly. APS 2025 Convention registrants: Watch the recording of Hattie’s session.

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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

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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ADDitude

JUNE 10, 2025

Push yourself with informal exposure therapy I started small by joining a writing group. bond over our experiences, including our shared perfectionism. You’ll see that you’re not alone, and you’ll learn a thing or two about how others cope. There, I forced myself to share a few pages of a work-in-progress, even if I felt the story was crap.

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