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Successfully Prescribing MAOIs for Depression

Psychiatric Times

Physicians (CME) 2. Other All other clinicians either will receive a CME Attendance Certificate or may choose any of the types of CE credit being offered. ACTIVITY GOAL To inform readers of best practices in prescribing monoamine oxidase inhibitors for the treatment of major depressive disorder. LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1.

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Healing from Within: Trauma Therapy for Women Who’ve Been Told They’re ‘Too Sensitive’

Lightwork

Healing from Within: Trauma Therapy for Women Who’ve Been Told They’re ‘Too Sensitive’ Have you ever been told that you’re “too sensitive”? The combination of trauma and sensitivity presents unique challenges.

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

Mad in America

Some neuroscientists argue that we should rather focus our efforts on the upstream social and structural factors, such as trauma and inequity , that create the conditions for mental health concerns to arise. A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ”

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Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care

Mad in America

The way we think about mental distress today is based on a big mistakethat emotional pain comes from brain chemistry problems rather than from people’s experiences, social conditions, and how they make sense of things. I n the clean hallways of today’s mental health centers, a quiet change is taking shape.

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A Mad Perspective on IFS Training

Mad in America

On day one of this sixteen-week course, I hoped that this popular methodology, Internal Family Systems, might be the answer to addressing my own complex trauma. On day one of this sixteen-week course, I hoped that this popular methodology, Internal Family Systems, might be the answer to addressing my own complex trauma.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

Mad in America

The real question is whether the “brighter future” is always so distant. When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? I believe these kinds of questions will shape our understanding of the future of mental health. Yet these things are not acts of God.

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.