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Study Reveals Racial and Gender Stereotypes Skew Diagnosis of Childhood Psychopathology
18+ hour, 36+ min ago —...A recent study conducted by Sungha Kang and colleagues reveals the... ...promote racial equity in all child-serving institutions in the United States...
Killing In the Name by Rage Against The Machine
1+ day ago —...This weeks Song of the Week was recommended by an Anonymous MIA Reader... ...Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers.... ...They"ll threaten you with incarceration if you refuse to take their drugs...
We Don’t Know If Most Medical Treatments Work, and We Know Even Less About Whether They Cause Harm: Study...
1+ day ago —...(University of Oxford), US, Switzerland and Greece conducted a large... ...Cochrane Reviews are rigorous studies that amalgamate all available...
Twin Studies Suggest Childhood Trauma is Major Determinant in Development of Psychiatric Disorders
1+ day ago —...The study, led by Hilda Björk Daníelsdóttir at the University of... ...Iceland, leveraged the unique situation of twins to dissect the complex... ...or neglect, physical neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, rape... ...multiple ACEs were experienced or if one of the ACEs was a sexual abuse...
Committed: An Interview With Suzanne Scanlon
2+ day ago —...time, you lived in the New York State Psychiatric Institute on Manhattan... ...’s Upper West Side—an institute central to the DSM [Diagnostic and...
Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death
3+ day ago —...with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing.... ...And psychiatric drugs are the third leading cause of death Overtreatment... ...As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding... ...Most people who are killed by their drugs die outside hospitals,...
I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d Been Told About 'Mental Illness"...
3+ day ago —..., watching an actor recreate one of the most intense moments of my... ...sat halfway up a spiral staircase in an old medical library in London... ...said actor Charly Clive as she read a list of symptoms from the medical... ...Charly wept in front of the camera while I wept behind it as we rolled...
What Is "Care" in a Psychiatric Medical Camp for the Unhoused in India?
6+ day ago —...The author, Indian doctoral scholar Neha Jain, writes about her field... ...Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in South Asia... ...Then the social worker asked her name in Kannada, and she responded... ...alley that houses a posh private veterinary clinic as well as a Girls High...
Researchers: Depression Is “A Normal Brain Responding to Stress or Adversity”
4+ day ago —...The authors, led by Joanna Moncrieff, argue that there is no real... ...Moncrieff et al. write, “There is abundant evidence that it is the... ...instance, they cite a 2022 study in JAMA Psychiatry led by Nils Winter... ...psychiatric diagnoses, a 2022 article by influential neuroscientist Raymond Dolan...
A Felt Sense of Safety – From Disassociation to Embodiment
1+ week ago —...My lovely psychiatrist, Dr.... ...Volls, advised me on the concept of “mood management.”... ...Hospital in Dallas, Texas.... ...system, “safety” was a portion of my care plan completed by a social worker...