Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We remind readers that we wholeheartedly respect and uphold people’s personal right to describe their difficulties and differences in any way they find helpful (although we argue that clinicians do have a duty to use concepts that are in conventional terms evidence-based). The series is being archived here.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 144

Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. The relationship between childhood trauma and later development of psychotic symptoms has received increasing attention in recent years. Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology Allan M.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy 145

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

On top of it, during the last few years, when I spent more time detained in hospital than at home, some of the nurses accused me of “not wanting to get better” and urged the doctors to label me with “personality disorder.” “T he only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke.

Hospitality 145

Hospitality Trauma and the brain Personality disorders Social Services 145

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Perhaps if I took a different prescription or combination of prescriptions, my brain would magically adjust and rid me of my alleged ‘chemical imbalance’. I had been diagnosed with numerous ‘disorders’ because I had a traumatic childhood. My brain sat in my skull like a dead goldfish. I was severely unwell. I was disgusted.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Autism spectrum Anxiety disorders 144

Mad in America

JULY 25, 2024

I was never given an official diagnosis. Back in the early 1980s in the UK no one would have thought to ask what their doctor was writing in our file. It was for them, not us, full consent wasn’t in our consciousness. I had been sent to a psychiatrist at Manchester Royal Infirmary after my 2 nd violent mugging; I wasn’t eating or sleeping.

Resilience and coping 143

Resilience and coping Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 143

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

In psychotic disorders, motivation and pleasure (MAP) deficits are associated with decreased affiliation and heightened functional impairment. Participants ( N = 122) who reported poorer belonging at baseline experienced greater depressive symptoms, greater worry, and worse psychological well-being over the 14-month follow-up period.

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Resilience and coping Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 59

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

Autism spectrum 40

Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40