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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · Jun 3
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 7h
Joining us on our #podcast are Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff to discuss a recent FDA panel on potential harms caused by #antidepressant use during pregnancy. #mentalhealth #psychology #psychiatry

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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 15h
Joining us on our #podcast are Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff to discuss a recent FDA panel on potential harms caused by #antidepressant use during pregnancy. #mentalhealth #psychology #psychiatry

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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 16h
Less Screen, More Sleep: Cutting Smartphone Use Lifts Mood and Lowers Stress

A randomized trial finds that reducing daily screen time improves well-being and sleep quality among young adults.

By Richard Sears

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Less Screen, More Sleep: Cutting Smartphone Use Lifts Mood and Lowers Stress
Participants who kept their smartphone use under two hours a day saw the largest gains in well-being and sleep.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 1d
An Open Letter to Those I Love Whose Neurotypical Privilege Keeps Them from Seeing What They Need to See
by Dana Henry Martin

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An Open Letter to Those I Love Whose Neurotypical Privilege Keeps Them from Seeing What They Need to See
The next time you see someone who is unhoused and dealing with mental-health issues, have some compassion as opposed to callousness.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 1d
Psychiatric Labels Confine More Than They Clarify, Researchers Argue

A new article reviews evidence that diagnostic categories shape identity and worsen outcomes, calling for alternatives to fixed labels.

By Laura López-Aybar

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Psychiatric Labels Confine More Than They Clarify, Researchers Argue
A new article reviews evidence that diagnostic categories shape identity and worsen outcomes, calling for alternatives to fixed labels.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 2d
Poem of the Week: "Beauty Remains" by Diana Spore
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 2d
Medicine Is on the Brink of “AI-Induced Deskilling”

Research is piling up to show that once doctors use artificial intelligence, they begin to lose their vital skills—and trainees may never learn them.

By Peter Simons

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Medicine Is on the Brink of "AI-Induced Deskilling"
Research is piling up: once doctors use artificial intelligence, they begin to lose vital skills, and trainees may never learn them.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 4d
A Call for Evidence-Based, Fear-Free Practice
An MIA Essay by Martin Plöderl, PhD

It is right to criticize MAHA, but poorly researched, fear-based responses by mainstream psychiatry only further mislead the public.
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A Call for Evidence-Based, Fear-Free Practice
It is right to criticize MAHA, but poorly researched, fear-based responses by mainstream psychiatry only further mislead the public.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 5d
Sweltering in My Own Sour Breath
by Rituparna Sahoo

All I could feel was nightmares budding and leafing darkly from my nerve endings, swinging and rustling in the black air of my grief.
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Sweltering in My Own Sour Breath
All I could feel was nightmares budding and leafing darkly from my nerve endings, swinging and rustling in the black air of my grief.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 5d
From Molecules to Meanings: Scholars Call for ‘Pharmaceutical Humanities’

The authors contend that pharmacists need narrative competence and a new disciplinary home that joins ethics, culture, and care with pharmacology.

By Justin Karter

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From Molecules to Meanings: Scholars Call for ‘Pharmaceutical Humanities’
A review argues that “Pharmaceutical Humanities” and “narrative pharmacy” can bridge lab science and lived experience to tackle crises from opioids to microplastics.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 6d
“How Are You?” The Strangest Question to ask in a Psychiatric Hospital
by Vikky Leaney

Inside a psychiatric hospital, the social script doesn’t fit the situation. The location itself undermines the premise.
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“How Are You?” The Strangest Question to ask in a Psychiatric Hospital
Inside a psychiatric hospital, the social script doesn’t fit the situation. The location itself undermines the entire premise of the question.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 6d
A longitudinal study from Norway connects early behavioral patterns and experiences, such as bullying and emotional difficulties, to the emergence of cluster A personality traits in teens.

By Richard Sears

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New Research Suggests Early Childhood Behavior May Predict Cluster A Personality Disorders
Data from more than 1,000 children suggest a feedback loop between personality, social response, and long-term well-being.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 7d
Study Finds Bipartisan Support for Mental Health Care Without Coercion

The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that federal calls for increased use of coercive measures run counter to public opinion.

By Ashley Bobak, PsyD

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Study Finds Bipartisan Support for Mental Health Care Without Coercion
While the Trump administration has called for expanded use of involuntary psychiatric care, a national survey shows Americans largely prefer alternatives.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 8d
Peer Advocates Who Made Things Happen in Oregon
by Robert Nikkel, MSW

We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a vision for system change.
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Peer Advocates Who Made Things Happen in Oregon
We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a viable alternative.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 8d
New #Podcast Interview with John Ioannidis

The Stanford professor behind the most famous paper in modern medicine warns that much of today’s research is unreliable, yet insists the project is worth defending.

By Ayurdhi Dhar, PhD
Science Under Pressure, Humanity at Stake: An Interview with John Ioannidis
The Stanford professor behind the most famous paper in modern medicine warns that much of today’s research is unreliable, yet insists the project is worth defending.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 8d
Prescription Stimulant Use Linked to Higher Rates of Psychosis

A systematic study finds a higher incidence of psychosis in individuals diagnosed with ADHD who are prescribed stimulants.

By Joe Huang

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Prescription Stimulant Use Linked to Higher Rates of Psychosis
A systematic study finds a higher incidence of psychosis in individuals diagnosed with ADHD who are prescribed stimulants.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 8d
Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice?

The program reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how it was able to achieve that goal—and the barriers preventing it from being used more often.
Trauma-Informed Care and the PTMF: How Does It Work in Practice?
It reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how it was able to achieve that goal—and barriers preventing it.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 9d
Counter Archiving “Mental Health Records”
This article first appeared on Mad In Ireland

Standing in front of the mirror, i wonder, “what outfit should i wear for scanning my psychiatric records at the local library?”
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Counter Archiving “Mental Health Records”
Standing in front of the mirror, i wonder, “what outfit should i wear for scanning my psychiatric records at the local library?”
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 11d
"We were both victims of psychiatric abuse, having been incarcerated in insane asylums against our will, deprived of all our human rights, humiliated, mistreated, and tortured, all for the sake of obtaining a psychiatric cure for being ourselves."
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 11d
Fifty Years of Grief
by Robert Dole

"This is the 50th anniversary of the ignominious death in prison of my dearly beloved friend Mark Frechette. The star of Antonioni’s film Zabriskie Point, he was, for me, the friend who cured me of my schizophrenia."
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Fifty Years of Grief
September 27, 2025, is the fiftieth anniversary of the ignominious death in prison of my dearly beloved friend Mark Frechette.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 12d
Beyond Medication: Meeting People in Their Worlds
by M. Tehsin Satti

Dementia strips away memory and function, but it does not erase the longing for meaning. If anything, it exposes it more starkly.
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Beyond Medication: Meeting People in Their Worlds
Dementia strips away memory and function, but it does not erase the longing for meaning. If anything, it exposes it more starkly.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 12d
In NUTRIMUM, a placebo-controlled trial of micronutrients for pregnant women with depression, newborns ended up startlingly healthy, with fewer complications than even the newborns of women who didn’t have depression at all.

By Peter Simons

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Micronutrient Supplements: Better Than Antidepressants for Depressed Pregnant Mothers and Their Babies
In NUTRIMUM, newborns ended up with fewer complications than even the newborns of women who didn’t have depression at all.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 13d
The Vanity Fair of Magic Potions
by Yishay Ishi Ron

I know better now. I know the truth: there is no single potion, no ultimate cure. There are only fragments, partial reliefs, things that help until they don’t.
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The Vanity Fair of Magic Potions
When someone is searching for medicine, there will always be someone else ready to sell them the “cure" to make them whole again.
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 13d
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Mad in America @mad-in-america.bsky.social · 13d
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