Reframing inertia as an adaptive, biologically based survival response offers a powerful alternative to traditional deficit-oriented models.| Mad In America
Despite clear risks, benzos and z-drugs remain widely prescribed to the elderly. New research explores what helps—and what doesn’t—when trying to stop.| Mad In America
The idea that human value can be reduced to economic contribution is not merely reductive—it is deeply dangerous.| Mad In America
Accounts of deinstitutionalization fail to describe recovery, peer support, or what it was actually like to be in the state hospitals.| Mad In America
It is very difficult to get off a mental health commitment. The counties fight tooth and nail to keep people in the system.| Mad In America
From CNN: "If you search “Adderall” on Spotify’s podcast page, you’ll find health podcasts about ADHD, shows about addiction recovery and comedy podcasts| Mad In America
Ayurdhi Dhar interviews influential cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer on how metaphors, histories, and social structures contour our experiences of suffering and healing.| Mad In America
Families are not merely a source of comfort and support but also a breeding ground for dysfunction, unhealed trauma, and emotional neglect.| Mad In America
from KCRG.org: On Friday, a federal court gave its approval of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit against the Iowa Department of Health and Human| Mad In America
Every time I agreed to 'treatment’, I was told that it was necessary to save my life. I was sold a bunch of lies.| Mad In America
Persistent antidepressant withdrawal is a debilitating experience, but little research exists about its prevalence and treatment.| Mad In America
Mad in Portugal's readers can find blogs, book reviews, and first-person testimonials from voices less present in mainstream narratives.| Mad In America
The focus on diseased brains and genes threatens to obscure the significance of social and environmental influences.| Mad In America
Our citizens would be far better off if we removed all the psychotropic drugs from the market, as doctors are unable to handle them.| Mad In America
Although the medical care Cary received was excellent, no one mentioned “trauma” or counseled us on how it might manifest emotionally.| Mad In America
In my case, writing was the beginning of healing. It pulled me out of the abyss and gave me structure, voice, and purpose.| Mad In America
By tackling social causes of distress along with personal support, we prevent suffering rather than just reacting to emergencies.| Mad In America
From Josef Witt-Doerring's YouTube Channel: "In this interview, David Carmichael shares his devastating experience with psychiatric medications,| Mad In America
Alienating someone from their own meaning-making is a violent action, but happens when professionals use decontextualised diagnoses.| Mad In America
Those using antidepressants long-term were more likely to experience withdrawal and to have severe withdrawal symptoms.| Mad In America
Joanna Moncrieff joins Robert Whitaker to talk about her latest book, titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. They discuss the serotonin story and the fact that there is no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency is a primary cause of depression.| Mad In America
The focus on the "worried well" and the exclusion of the "mad" serves to legitimize psychiatric control and surveillance.| Mad In America
From Med City News. "A Bristol Myers Squibb drug whose landmark FDA approval introduced the first novel mechanism for treating schizophrenia in decades| Mad In America
It’s never too late to seek another explanation for the problems you’re facing, to change your mind and get your life back.| Mad In America
Millions of people are trying multiple antidepressant drugs without success, and psychiatry labels them “treatment resistant.”| Mad In America
From The Guardian. “Across the country, a troubling trend is accelerating: the return of institutionalization – rebranded, repackaged and framed as| Mad In America
Delusions are more than fleeting mental turmoil; they reveal the unconscious mind’s storytelling power.| Mad In America
Exhaustive, data-driven, systematic research topples the conceptual house of cards in which the antidepressant hegemony resides.| Mad In America
Peter Lehmann is a central figure in the struggle for emancipation and dignity of people with lived experience of psychiatric treatment.| Mad In America
From the Daily Mail in the UK: Katinka Blackford Newman interviews Laura Delano about her memoir Unshrunk. "My life nearly fell apart because I was put on| Mad In America
Professionals in the field must recognize psychiatry's connection to social norms rather than portraying it as a neutral branch of medicine.| Mad In America
Despite finding no meaningful correlation between genes and substance use, high-profile geneticists misleadingly conveyed optimistic results.| Mad In America
From KFF Health News: "Overcome by worries, Lynette Isbell dialed a mental health hotline in April 2022. She wanted to talk to someone about her midlife| Mad In America
By honouring dreams, we honour our innate creativity, our shared humanity, our capacity to reimagine reality.| Mad In America
On the Mad in America podcast, Brooke Siem talks with Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz about their journey from working in the prison system to challenging conventional psychiatric narratives in their therapy practice and podcast, The Gaslit Truth.| Mad In America
South Korea ranks among the highest in the world for suicide, and its people are turning to psychiatric drugs in record numbers.| Mad In America
The studies are of short duration and are riddled with methodological issues like unblinding and failure to assess withdrawal.| Mad In America
From The New York Times: "From 2012 to 2022, the total number of prescriptions for stimulants to treat A.D.H.D. increased in the United States by 58| Mad In America
The guidance emphasizes shifting away from institutional mindsets and practices, the biomedical approach, and the use of psychotropic drugs.| Mad In America
I have been on Cymbalta for 17 years now and am gutted that my five-year taper did not free me of the drug.| Mad In America
"Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Jim Banks (R-IN), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the| Mad In America
The whole system is broken and I pray for my friends in Great Britain. They need a reform, not cuts or euthanasia.| Mad In America
I reject psychiatry. But I also reject the critic. In the final analysis psychiatric abolition must be a deeply personal act.| Mad In America
Mental health nursing has a key role to play in helping people discontinue the drugs, writes Timothy Wand.| Mad In America
Given the lack of objective signs, surface psychology can only ever be the treatment of subjectively distressing symptoms.| Mad In America
My madness forged me. Madness led me to deeper truths. Madness discarded beliefs which no longer served me.| Mad In America
Giovanni Fava joins us to discuss the uncertain future of the journal 'Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics' which he edited for thirty years and which has been essential to our understanding of the impact of psychiatric treatments.| Mad In America
Those with mental health difficulties continue to face systemic barriers to holistic, person-centred care.| Mad In America
Researchers: Fetal exposure to vilazodone hampers neurodevelopment and leads to "long-lasting neurodevelopmental impairments."| Mad In America
For the mainstream media, reviewing Laura Delano's memoir "Unshrunk" is an exercise in cognitive dissonance.| Mad In America
Psychiatry is a moral ideology, making and enforcing judgments about the appropriateness of people's experiences.| Mad In America
Tim Beck interviews Jeff Sugarman on the psychology of personhood, the influence of neoliberalism on mental health, and the need for a more philosophically informed psychology.| Mad In America
Tapering is stepping into each individual’s complex world of biology, history, psyche, circumstance, and tolerance for discomfort.| Mad In America
A large-scale study reveals that antidepressant use is linked to faster cognitive decline in dementia patients, raising concerns about their widespread prescription.| Mad In America
Psychiatry has offered many biological theories, but the ones that stick are the effective marketing devices for money-making drugs.| Mad In America
If we want to advocate for a better mental health system, we have to integrate our own shame. And that is what happened to me at Mad Camp.| Mad In America
Can we resist turning to private practices masked in social justice rhetoric as a substitute for genuine movement building and advocacy?| Mad In America
From The Independent. "Patients who were prescribed drugs for restless legs syndrome (RLS) have said doctors did not warn them about significant side| Mad In America
The Vermont Longitudinal Study, led by Courtenay Harding, belied conventional beliefs about schizophrenia by showing remarkably good outcomes.| Mad In America
Between 1883-1955, little attention was given to the value and contributions of those who were “patients” at the Oregon State Insane Asylum.| Mad In America
In appointments that last five to seven minutes, all doctors do is push drugs—psychiatric drugs, ADHD meds, everything.| Mad In America
Using genetic analysis, a new study finds that antidepressants—not depression—are responsible for a significant rise in type 2 diabetes risk.| Mad In America