When she was fourteen, Lauren thought she was crazy. She didn't think she was 'clinically depressed'. That word only came later, when a doctor told her that she was. Last month Lauren came to ...
On my chest, over my right pectoral, I have a tattoo. It isn’t a ribbon for recovery. It isn’t a semicolon, though I’ve got a few of those in other places. It’s the pagan symbol of Mephistopheles — ...
Inger-Mari Eidsvik, together with Føniks Lawyers and support from ICJ-Norway (the International Commission of Jurists), has ...
The global mental health movement has faced criticism for its promotion of standardized interventions that lack cultural ...
In this short film, we meet Heidi, who has now put her ballet career behind her after developing an eating disorder. The ...
This week, Mad in America examines three studies related to economic disadvantage and mental health issues. The first finds ...
This excerpt is from the end of my 135-page-long story “Yesmad Journey” ( originally published in Finnish on Mad in Finland ) ...
It was something we set up through Antidepressant Risks, the not-for-profit I founded to improve informed consent around ...
What was gained and what was lost in the translation of something ancient and human into the language of biomedical ...
Anyone who talks about fundamental rights should not overlook psychiatry. It is precisely here that the state and ...
This week’s Song of the Week was suggested by Anonymous. Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These ...
Serotonin is a signaling molecule (neurotransmitter) that plays an important role in the brain in regulating mood, sleep, appetite, and cognitive functions, while in the gut it participates in ...
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