Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2025

And at the same time no, nothing will be different if we don’t allow ourselves to also be changed by the possibilities psychedelics present. Author’s note: For transparency, I am the co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics, a state-approved training center for psilocybin mushroom practitioners in Colorado.

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ADDitude

JUNE 18, 2025

Dysregulated Nervous System Causes: Trauma, Stress, and Hypervigilance Scientific understanding of the ADHD-nervous system connection is still emerging. Many of us carry unresolved trauma — from childhood adversity, academic rejection, health misdiagnoses, or growing up feeling misunderstood or “too much.” And I wasn’t alone.

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My Psychiatry

JUNE 17, 2025

Whether it’s a job interview, a big presentation, or a first date, moments of anxiety happen to everyone. One common contributor is genetic predisposition —if anxiety runs in your family, you may be more likely to experience it yourself due to inherited traits that influence how your brain responds to stress.

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The Anxiety Guy

MARCH 31, 2025

Heres Whats Really Happening in Your Brain Dizziness from anxiety is one of the most unsettling symptoms people experience. If youve ever wondered why anxiety causes dizziness and whats really happening in your brain, youre not alone. Dizziness from anxiety is a major component to increased fear for health anxiety sufferers.

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Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

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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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 12, 2025

2 Realizing that, modern medical educators often morph traditional Socratic questioning into the embedding of “audience response questions” (ARS) within formal presentations. Author(s): Joseph F. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades.

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Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 14, 2025

As with many clinical conditions, each childs genetic, brain-based, and environmental influences blend into a distinct profile. We need to rule out other causes of inattention (like anxiety or trauma) and ensure were capturing the childs full spectrum of strengths and needs. And ADHD is not only a disorder of childhood.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses.

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Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

MAY 28, 2025

Equine-assisted interventions (EAIs) offer a powerful alternative to traditional talking therapies for patients with PTSD, trauma and autism, who struggle to express and regulate emotions through words alone. Skip to main content Your source for the latest research news Follow: Facebook X/Twitter Subscribe: RSS Feeds Newsletter New!

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

At present, the foundation for international law is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ( CRPD , 2006), of which Australia is a signatory. At present, the foundation for international law is the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ( CRPD , 2006), of which Australia is a signatory.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I had headaches, brain fog, and fatigue. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. “Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that really isn’t you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

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Lightwork

APRIL 10, 2025

These lingering wounds, known as unresolved trauma, can silently shape our behaviors, relationships, and daily experiences without us even realizing it. For women, unresolved trauma can manifest in unique ways, impacting mental health through anxiety, depression, and complex emotional responses. Many women share similar experiences.

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Mad in America

JULY 29, 2024

Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. This third part of this series on Neurodiversity consists of an essay by a therapist who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of the consequences for their job. The series is being archived here. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we—e.g.

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Mad in America

JUNE 17, 2024

I was grappling with the pressures of balancing the needs of my teenagers, who were struggling in different ways, and my two preschoolers with developmental delays that no professional could explain — all while attempting to manage and overcome my own trauma from military service. Two police officers stood inside my entryway, watching us.

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The Art of Healing Trauma

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing, A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping, by Cornelia Elbrecht, is an in-depth instructional textbook for the somatic therapeutic approach Guided Drawing. Based on leading edge understandings about trauma healing and the body (sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, etc.),

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The Art of Healing Trauma

JUNE 25, 2020

When we remember and then begin to do a writing practice about the memory, we are turning on many parts of our brains and awareness to interact with the memory, such as new knowledge, new experiences, and other frames of reference that did not exist when the experience happened.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

Below are excerpts from a talk given by Dina Tyler — a psych survivor, family counselor, and cofounder of Bay Area Hearing Voices, among others — at UCSF Grand Rounds last month. “I was and still would be non-compliant. I would never ever want to seek help in a psychiatric hospital ever again. Or did it come true?

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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? Genes and depression?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. T he one-size-fits-all autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, as configured in the Revised Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5-TR), is a clinical catastrophe. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Scuffling whispers echoing in the hall and in my brain halted, followed by a brief but sacred silence. Nevertheless, like USS Arizona and Utah, I lay immobile from what felt like a sneak attack. In the dim quiet of the calculatingly sterile room I was alone, awash with discouragement and sunken in the icy depths of depression.

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Mad in America

APRIL 12, 2024

A nutrition geek and nature fanatic who loved learning about the healing power of food, I could not wrap my mind around how I needed prescriptions to balance my brain. I arrived at my 18 th birthday 20 pounds overweight, insecure, and foggy, thanks to Depakote and Zyprexa. It was the perfect way to start my senior year of high school.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in the UK. The author, Catherine Heseltine, is a psychiatric survivor, a mum to three wonderful children and a political activist in London. I want to start my story at the end. This holiday has been amazing. How heaven could possibly be more beautiful than this island I can’t imagine!

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Apart from seeing and experiencing very unusual things, they also healed me from terrible stomach pain and trauma from my adolescence. S omeone asked me the other day: but what has changed in terms of psychiatric treatment in twenty years? I can reflect on this question because I have been dealing with the psychiatric system for a long time.

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The Anxiety Guy

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Your brain becomes overactive, producing an endless loop of thoughts that often revolve around worry, fear, or worst-case scenarios. Your brain continuously searches for solutions, even when they arent needed. Enjoy today’s podcast friends! Reminder : This podcast episode is brought to you by the Inner Circle Program.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Can we identify them before they start an antidepressant? With so much debate and discussion about “how many” (including the previous two essays in this series), it’s surprising that so little has been written about “why some and not others?” Yes, being on an antidepressant for a long time increases the risk of severe withdrawal when stopping.

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Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Self-defeat is a common symptom of Complex Trauma or PTSD. Unfortunately, these shutdown states and self-defeating thoughts are all too common with PTSD and Complex Trauma. A 15-30-minute mandatory daily walk, no matter what, can help clear a lot of brain fog. The Next Step Is Action! That gets your energy moving again.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 8, 2025

But my lived experience goes back to childhoodIve dealt with trauma, major depression, suicide attempts, some addiction problems, and night terrors. B ecky Brasfield has emerged as a formidable advocate for change in the complex landscape of mental health care.A The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. Indigenous culturesaround the worldrecognize and intentionally cultivate waking dreams for both personal and communitywell-being.

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Center for Integrative Psychiatry

APRIL 3, 2025

For those seeking a gentler, whole-body approach, holistic trauma healing focuses on treating the mind , body, and spirit rather than just suppressing symptoms. Breathwork and Meditation Breathwork and meditation help rewire the brains response to stress and trauma by activating the parasympathetic nervous system, which promotes relaxation.

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Epigenetic tags allow each of these cells to “read” only the parts of the DNA sequence that are relevant to them, in order to become skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, muscle cells, and other unique cells with the right structure and functions for their specific role. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.

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Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

During the summer, YMHA students participated in five weeks of academic enrichment activities and project-based learning, culminating in the presentation of group capstone projects on a chosen mental health focus.

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Now Psych

MAY 20, 2024

While the exact cause is still not clear, most experts point to a combination of genetics, brain chemistry and structure, and environment. Stressful events like trauma and substance abuse can trigger onset of or make symptoms worse in people who might be vulnerable. How Common is Schizoaffective Disorder?

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Lightwork

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This combination of diagnoses presents specific difficulties in both identifying and treating these conditions. Introduction Research consistently shows that women experience anxiety disorders at nearly twice the rate of men. Studies indicate that 60-70% of women with anxiety disorders also qualify for major depressive disorder.

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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Alcohol is reinforcing because it increases dopamine release in the brain's reward system, particularly in the mesolimbic pathway, leading to feelings of pleasure, relaxation, and euphoria. Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is the most common substance use disorder , affecting millions worldwide. Highest rates in ages 1829.

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Lightwork

JUNE 5, 2025

Understanding High-Functioning Anxiety in Women High-functioning anxiety presents a unique paradox in women’s mental health. It’s characterized by the ability to maintain successful careers, relationships, and daily responsibilities while battling intense internal struggles.

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Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

Hallucinations can cause an individual to see, hear, or feel things that are not present in reality. Defining Psychosis Psychosis is a condition that affects the brain, causing a person to experience symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking.

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Zencare

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Robbins is well known for her tough love attitude that supports people in their relationships, career, personal development and overall leads to more thriving in their lives. The Let Them theory is generally popular among therapists as a simple phrase to describe the complexity of setting boundaries and prioritizing the self. Lets break it down.

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