Yearly Archives: 2012
Billing the Victims of Unethical Medical Research
Imagine for a moment that you are seriously injured in a medical research study and require expensive medical care.Ā Ā Imagine further that the study...
ADHD in DSM-5: Lower Specificity, Increased Rates
Research from Iran points out that "there is no empirical literature about the American Psychiatry Association proposed new diagnostic criteria for attention deficit disorder."...
Antidepressant Nation
From Youtube:
"A Recent study on antidepressants has shown that the drugs have some serious side effects: those taking certain prescriptions could lose their sex...
Seeing Mental Illness as a Spiritual Illness
I am a simple woman, 47, single mother of two beautiful children, diagnosed bipolar 10 years ago, and I want more from the way...
“The Disease Entity in Psychiatry: Fact or Fiction?”
In the context of the debate concerning revisions of the DSM and ICD, an article in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences offers "an overview of...
Ted Chabasinski – Short Bio
Still Crazy After All These Years: Ted Chabasinski, now a patients' rights lawyer, was taken from his parents when he was six years old,...
A Child on the Shock Ward
"I was six years old, and so, finally, all the symptoms of my supposed mental illness ... especially, being born to a crazy mother, came to a head. And now I was officially a schizophrenic, proving that the disease was inherited."
A Collective Human Potential Movement
A Mental Health Recovery Movement is a good start, but frankly I am more interested in a movement that uses the language of ātransformation," a movement that recognizes the powerful of our collective potential to transform the world, that isnāt willing to compromise our visions of a better world, has the ability to capture many peopleās imaginations, and is capable of building coalitions across many boundaries.
Normal Anxiety vs. Mental Illness
Sharon Begley, author of "Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain," asks about the distinction between normal, healthy anxiety and mental illness and the implied...
Nurses Confront the Myths of Psychiatric Drugs
The July issue of Nursing Ethics takes on the myths of psychiatric drugs, saying that "psychiatric drugs are used only to control āpatientā behaviour...
Are There Gifts In and From Our Madness That Our Culture Needs to Not...
Do we bring gifts to our family and community that are born of suffering but infused with spirit? Has our madness been in vain,...
Antipsychotics During Pregnancy Raise Diabetes Risk
Swedish researchers find, in a study of all women giving birth in Sweden from July 1, 2005 through December 31, 2009 that those taking...
Department of Defense Reveals Forced Drugging of Detainees
A report from the Deputy Inspector General of the Department of Defense, obtained by Truthout under a Freedom of Information Act request, confirms that...
Mad in America Blogger Elected President of NAMI
Keris Jan Myrick, aĀ Mad in America blogger, as well asĀ president and CEO of Pasadena-based Project Return Peer Support Network, has been elected president of...
Bob Faw – Long Bio
POSITIVELY HEALING: TRANSFORMING VICIOUS CYCLES INTO VITAL CYCLES.
Bob Faw is the President of the Board of the Directors for Vital Cycles and the Director...
Bob Faw – Short Bio
Positively Healing: Transforming Vicious Cycles into Vital Cycles:Ā Bob Faw writes about the Vital Cycles program, which seeks to empower those who seek joy in...
Self-Esteem Deficits Predict Paranoia & Positive Symptoms
Researchers from Indiana University find, in a study of 57 individuals with schizophrenia diagnoses, that "decreases in self-esteem at any given time point were...
Individualism a Risk Factor for Depression
Findings from a survey of 6,082 individuals, designed to explore racial and ethnic differences in mental disorders, reinforce the relationship between social support and...
The Coming Tsunami of Mental Health Care for ‘Boomers
A report released yesterday by the Institute of Medicine, at the request of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says "at least...
The Triumph of Bad Science
If we want to understand how our society may end up deluded about the merits of psychiatric medications, we can look at the research...
Site Updates and Posting Policy
Shortly after Mad In America launched at the beginning of the year I was invited to take over the siteās web development and to...
Expressed Emotion in Families of 1-year-old Children
This study, in Child: Care, Health and Development, adds to the research that "high levels of expressed emotion (EE) in parents have been found...
Sickness Absence From Work: More Anxiety Than Otherwise
Norwegian, Australian and U.K. researchers find, in a study of 13,436 community members, linked with official records of sickness absence from work (SA), that...
Beliefs About Psychosis Predict Engagement With Therapy, and Outcomes
A study by U.K. researchers finds that patients with schizophrenia diagnoses are more likely to engage in therapy and to experience positive outcomes when...
Yoga is Effective for Neurological and Major Psychiatric Conditions
A literature review by the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center and UCLA school of medicine, published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical...
