Mad in America

MARCH 27, 2025

In this article I will often refer to myself as Mad or touched by Madness instead of Bipolar. You may have the same label and have an entirely different lived experience than me my advice might not apply to you. Regardless I recommend you find your own truth, and not let it be dictated to you by a psychiatrist wielding the DSM.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

I was just struggling… I was referred to you by my surgical team because they thought I was depressed. Since there was no mention of my head injury, it took my family five years to get me referred to a neurologist who documented significant issues related to my head injury and offered some support and treatment for that.

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Mad in America

APRIL 29, 2025

In the biomedical model, this typically refers to constructs labeled as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe major depression, or personality disorders, etc. This can disrupt ones sense of self-integration and/or provoke profound inner torment, which may or may not interfere with major life activities.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When no physical cause is found the patients may be referred to psychiatrists, with at least the implication that the patients have a psychological problem.’ ’ He goes on to explain that O’Sullivan herself worries about this: ‘Like many Western doctors, I medicalise feelings and behaviour.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 29, 2025

Explicit instruction on thinking strategies, such as using 10 as a reference point for easy mental calculations. References Libertus, M. Early arithmetic instruction, they assert, should include the following: Early progress monitoring to identify gaps in a childs mental grasp of numbers. Feedback on this article?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2024

I draw my understanding of modernity from Anthony Giddens , according to whom, ‘modernity refers to modes of social life or organisation which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and which subsequently became more or less worldwide in their influence.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From OK Doomer : “These days, the phrase ‘mental health’ refers to your ability to engage in surface acting. It has very little to do with your actual emotions or sense of wellness. It has everything to do with how well you can continue fitting in with a group and how much you can contribute to the economy.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These are the types of patients that are often referred to our practice. I refer to the above-mentioned treatment methods as irrational polypharmacy. A few of our patients have developed delusional thought disorder that persisted for months even after the medication was discontinued.

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Mad in America

MARCH 29, 2025

Signs refer to what can be objectively seena head wound, for instance, whereas a symptom is the subjective experience (my head hurts). Similarly, without the black hand of depression pulling us down, we would not know we are depressed to begin with. As much as we would like them gone, symptoms refuse to be ignored.

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Mad in America

APRIL 22, 2025

It refers to the task that the participants are expected to perform: to gather the necessary information to evaluate a patients symptoms. Two other frames were the information-gathering frame and the everyday interaction frame. The information-gathering frame is the foundational structure of psychiatric assessment.

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Mad in America

APRIL 17, 2025

The Science : During REM sleep, your brain replays the day’s events, cross-references memories, and simulates solutions to unresolved problems. These examples arent quirky accidents. They are proof of a universal human superpower that exists within us. It’s a nightly therapy session and innovation lab rolled into one.

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Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2025

Going back to your question, we continued publishing papers on this issue of antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs, and the journal became sort of a reference to investigators not being tied to the industry, and had trouble publishing their papers. It’s over 126 references. Fava: Those were the days.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Headlines frequently refer to research participants describing their psychedelic experiences as among the most meaningful in their lives, helping them cope with past traumas or face impending ones. This contributes to a view of psychedelic experiences as intense, but also meaningful and transformative.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2025

This merger of medical and psychological thinking would eventually spawn the emergence of psychiatry and the clinical versions of psychology, counseling, and social work, which I will simply refer to in combination as psychiatry.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Institutionalization refers to the establishment of large, bland, uniform, impersonal, hierarchical, bureaucratic, and coercive entities that increasingly rule our lives. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 10, 2025

Miranda Frickers concept of epistemic injustice refers to the mistreatment of individuals as knowers or conveyors of knowledge. Helene Speyer, MD, PhD, is a consultant psychiatrist and associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Mad in America

MARCH 21, 2025

However, once again, it is easy to show that this dismissal of Inner Compasses links isn’t warranted, and instead, is best seen as deriving from a cognitive dissonance that arises when the conventional narrative of psychiatric drugs is challenged with references to published research.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The law empowers family members, social service providers, police, and first responders to refer primarily unhoused people diagnosed with schizophrenia or other severe mental illnesses to a regime of civil courts that would compel them to accept a ‘care plan’ handed down by a judge.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I did not get jokes, or references to famous people, places, or events. Attempting to make new friends four years after ECT, four of us, I being the new member of the group, went skiing and snowshoeing up to a remote backcountry hut. When we settled in at the hut, I was like a bump on a log. I sat with a blank mind and nothing to share.

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2024

The debate editor wrote to me that they, unfortunately, could not publish it, as the article I referred to did not contain factual errors. I wrote a short comment to the newspaper, which I expected them to publish, as the article contained factual errors.

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Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

My therapy training has played a part; I am now able to step into other peoples frames of reference. If we listen to people on an ongoing basis, then we can build forms of support collaboratively, using their frame of reference and preferences as a guide. References: Bellizzi, K. 2022, August 11). The Conversation.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Armed with the settlement funds, tribes across Indian country are launching their own treatment programs incorporating their culture and values, a strategy sometimes referred to as ‘Indigenizing’ addiction care and harm reduction.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the field of psychotherapy, the term ‘transference’ refers to the attitudes, feelings, desires, and fantasies that a patient holds towards their therapist. Hospital departments hold ‘business meetings’, patients are referred to as ‘consumers’, and austerity doctrine reigns.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So many complex trauma survivors like to believe ‘it wasn’t that bad’ CPTSD survivors have no point of reference for what life could look like. In those with CPTSD, the nervous system remains prepared for danger always. Complex trauma survivors think they’re broken. Attachment trauma is complex trauma.

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Mad in America

APRIL 9, 2025

David Goodman: In the article you’re referring to, McDonaldization of psychotherapy , I draw the parallel between therapy and food deserts in the United States. What are the consequences for real people when they’re forced to fit their life into a therapeutic language that doesn’t suit them?

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Real Psychiatry

MAY 6, 2025

One of the most interesting aspects of reference 1 is the phylogenic tree of the family Canidae showing the relationships between different phyla. George Dawson, MD, DFAPA Graphics Credit: From reference 1 with permission - Copyright Clearance Center License Number 6004620929064 References: 1: Lindblad-Toh K, Wade CM, Mikkelsen TS, et al.

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Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2024

The authors write that antipsychotic effects on the self and identity are often not considered in the clinical discussions surrounding their use and that a better understanding of the complex interplay of factors that impact an individual decision to take or discontinue antipsychotics is crucial.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Except for what I will refer to as Blue Ribbon Medicine, a great deal of the medical care delivered in the U.S. To see the list of all references cited, click here. .” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. W e are currently spending over $3.6

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This textbook claimed, with no references, that studies from the London School of Economics show that it is a really good business for society to offer treatment of psychiatric disorders. To see the list of all references cited, click here. When I point this out to them, they have no shame or regrets.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

That bears out in the data; instead of referring students to mental health services, spyware more often sends students to disciplinary officers, or even law enforcement , who are not adequately qualified to provide short or long-term care. It seems obvious that surveillance is not the answer to the mental health crisis.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

From an institutional-regulatory perspective all that counts, anyway, is that the correct words are there to demonstrate policy adherence; what they mean or refer to is unimportant.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

My mother made that abundantly clear when she referred to me as “an accident.” The Past is a universal reference library which warehouses wisdom, our own and the vicarious victories of others. We weren’t just “sandwiched” together, our house was a friggin’ sardine can!

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They included the usual falsehoods, e.g. that antipsychotics emptied the asylums and made it possible for people to live normal lives, and that “pharmacological treatments have been shown to reduce the risk for suicide” (avoiding mentioning which drugs they were), with no references, only vague statements like “an extensive body of data.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

20 It has three full pages describing imaging studies in depression, with many references. To see the list of all references cited, click here. One of the textbooks, Clinical Neuropsychology , which has three psychologists as editors, exemplifies this issue. There is a huge risk that they will be harmed.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 24, 2025

References Pennebaker, J. And of course, I’m particularly interested in psychological science because what we do is critically important to the culture. Feedback on this article? Email apsobserver@psychologicalscience.org or login to comment. Writing about emotional experiences as a therapeutic process. Pennebaker, J.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 10, 2025

References Anderson, R. Clinicians could design interventions that illicit and strengthen a persons spatial imagery, which could, in theory, help patients work through their trauma and become less burdened by it. Feedback on this article? Email apsobserver@psychologicalscience.org or login to comment. Dewhurst, S. A., & Dean, G.

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