Insurance Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 
Mad in America
APRIL 15, 2025
As a Doctor of Korean Medicine who helps patients taper off long-term psychotropic medication, I see the cracks in the system every daypatients who were placed on antidepressants, sleeping pills, or antipsychotics decades ago and never given a clear path to recovery. Ive also been one of them. This is a sharp increase from 63.8%
Mad in America
MAY 10, 2025
Once again, a pharmaceutical had altered an essential part of my body. I got insomnia and could barely sleep. Countless supplements and over 30 different pharmaceuticals, I pretty much tried it all. I cant feel hunger, my sleep is never refreshing, and I feel like Im in a constant fog, unable to think clearly.
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Mad in America
MARCH 5, 2025
He started working with me at the shop, and I tried to put him on my insurance. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse. His irregular sleep patterns, staying up all nightit all started coming into focus. I put a lot of blame on insurance companies, too. I was shocked.
Mad in America
JULY 31, 2025
1 This burden in mental health systems is paralleled globally, and yet, the WHO estimates that 35 to 50% of individuals in high income countries like the U.S. do not receive mental health care. 2 There is a significant treatment gap coupled with global underfunding in mental health care.
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.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 18, 2023
In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. The patient is often in the best position to help and address their own health problems but patients need knowledge in order to help treat their health problem.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Both practitioners and health researchers shape the kind of healthcare delivered to patients but, unfortunately, practitioner influence has been substantially greater than the scientific health research influence in shaping clinical practice. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare.
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