Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health Trauma and the brain 
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. Psychiatric institutions are increasing rapidly across the country.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 21, 2024
From the safety of ones surroundings to access to proper nutrition, sleep, and social stability, the circumstances of life have a lasting biochemical effect on the brain. These areas of the brain impact how a person reacts to the world. and of course a host of pharmaceutical drugs.
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
She’s the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety and takes a functional medicine approach to mental health. Sometimes, we think we’re experiencing deep mental health issues when we’re actually dealing with inflammation, chronic sleep deprivation, or blood sugar fluctuations. That’s false anxiety.
Mad in America
JUNE 13, 2024
I was still only 17 years old but it was a great relief after the horrendous years I had spent at an all-girls boarding school. My fellow students and I started our first year ‘pre-clinical’ training with 4 ½ days a week of lectures. Those who failed would have one chance to re-sit and if unsuccessful, they would have to leave medical school.
Mad in America
JUNE 29, 2024
The theme of the conference was public mental health. Elites of the global mental health movement such as Vikram Patel were also present and so were eminent Indian psychiatrists, especially from public sector teaching hospitals. This is known as the Movement for Global Mental Health.
Mad in America
MAY 9, 2025
The woods swallowed the headlights that swept the trees, burning a negative image on the mens brains. W hen Polly left home, she wore a straitjacket over a light cotton housedress of pale yellow scattered with wildflowers. My mother wore that dress when she disappeared from my life for the first time shortly after my second birthday.
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