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On Monday, September 28, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins announced actions the VA will take to address mental health prescribing safety issues outlined in a joint letter to Congress and the VA Secretary by more than 30 national veterans organizations in April. The letter was inspired by
From Truthout. “Involuntary psychiatric treatment is a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s mental health policy, and liberal governors like Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul, and Wes Moore have also increasingly embraced coercive approaches to mental health care. Yet a central question often goes unaddressed by the lawmakers puttin
Have you ever wondered if one word could destroy your entire life? If so, what word do you think it might be? I had never considered this scenario either—until it actually happened to me. It was one word. One word in the English language. One word out of the roughly 600,000 words in the dictionary. […] The post My $100
Modern studies find that fluoxetine has lost its efficacy for children and can now be considered clinically equivalent to placebo. The post From Efficacy to Non-Efficacy: Lessons from Pediatric Fluoxetine Trials appeared first on Mad In America .
DESSI trial results provide a beginning for rethinking psychiatric care The post The ODDESSI: Open Dialogue, The Lancet, and a Trojan Horse appeared first on Mad In America .
I found Open Dialogue to be a compelling and deeply humane way of working but I also learned how hard it is to implement and sustain. The post Open Dialogue and ODDESSI: What Have We Learned? appeared first on Mad In America .
From The Guardian. “Proposals to limit the number of patients being formally diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have been attacked as “rationing” healthcare and pushing children and adults to self-diagnosis via social media. The comments came before a government review due next week, which is expec
Adults With Severe Mental Illness die 15 to 20 Years Earlier From Diseases Such as Cancer The post Adults With Severe Mental Illness die 15 to 20 Years Earlier From Diseases Such as Cancer appeared first on Mad In America .
It didn’t have to be this way— She begged for help, took the drugs, admitted herself to a psych hospital, worked with a psychiatrist. Her doctor treated her over Zoom— 17 minutes, 20 minutes A few supportive words More drugs I wonder if Lindsay and her doctor Had met face-to-face Human to human in close […] The post A
Journal editors should change their practices profoundly. They should welcome academic debate instead of censoring it. The post The BMJ Refused to Publish Criticisms in Print of its Highly Misleading Suicide Prevention Articles appeared first on Mad In America .
The Soteria care model is an alternative to restrictive inpatient psychiatric care for people experiencing psychosis in which patients and service users stay in residential housing largely staffed by lived experience experts and laypeople. This model emphasizes communal living, personal autonomy, non-hierarchical relat
Psilocybin seemed less interested in helping me avoid the abyss than in showing me that there was an entire landscape beyond it. The post The Abyss and Beyond appeared first on Mad In America .
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