Mad in America

MAY 13, 2025

I n the clean hallways of today’s mental health centers, a quiet change is taking shape. You won’t see big protests or new laws, but more people are starting to see that the main way we treat mental healthfocusing on chemical imbalances and managing medshasn’t helped many folks who need real healing.

Trauma and the brain 102

Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Self-awareness 102

Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

It was written by David Hansen, a crisis worker at a person-centred, survivor-led mental health crisis service. I have tasked myself with mapping out my understanding of how therapy and mental health relate to politics. Mental health is also political. Is therapy political? Of course it is.

Trauma and the brain 105

Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Pharmaceuticals Genetics and mental health 105

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. In this interview, Cartwright charts her journey of painful and lonely disillusionment with the “mental illness” framework. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Psychedelic therapy Mental health advocacy 124

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense?

Poverty and mental health 145

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

M any people are traumatised rather than healed by their interaction with mainstream mental health services, especially their admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit. Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals. What do we mean by healing?

Hospitality 89

Hospitality Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Construction 89

Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

To understand mental illness, we first need to understand what a person really is. Science has a pretty good grasp of how the body and brain work, right? Psychologists help people who feel bad and doctors prescribe medicine for broken brains with a lack of one or another neurotransmitter. W hat is a human being?

Neurotransmitters and mental health 98

Neurotransmitters and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Pharmaceuticals 98

Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

His critiques extend to how psychiatric categories reflect colonial histories and obscure social causes , as well as how attempts to localize mental health interventions may still impose Western norms. L aurence Kirmayer is one of the most influential figures in cultural psychiatry today.

Trauma and the brain 126

Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health Resilience and coping 126