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This website aims to be a helpful resource and a community hub for individuals looking to rethink mental health care in the U.S. and around the world. We strive to offer our readers the latest news, inspiring recovery stories, access to important documents, and insightful articles from various bloggers to support this mission. Our bloggers come from diverse backgrounds, including individuals with personal experiences, peer support specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, program managers, activists, lawyers, and journalists. Although they may have different viewpoints, they all share a common belief that our current mental health care system requires significant improvement, and many argue it needs a complete overhaul.

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Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care - Mad In America

2 days ago | madinamerica.com | Letephia Hiler

By tackling social causes of distress along with personal support, we prevent suffering rather than just reacting to emergencies.
Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

6 days ago | madinamerica.com | Jon Jacobsen

For nearly two decades, I have suffered from a debilitating condition known as PSSD, short for âpost-SSRI sexual dysfunctionâ. Contrary to what the name suggests, the condition often encompasses a much broader constellation of symptoms than simply sexual difficulties, such as cognitive deficits, emotional blunting, and anhedonia which can severely impact a personâs functioning and quality of life.
The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

2 weeks ago | madinamerica.com | Rob Wipond

Spurred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been leapfrogging each other in recent years from California and New York to Oregon, Oklahoma, Indiana and beyond.
Who Speaks for Global Mental Health? New Study Exposes Narrow Power Base

3 weeks ago | madinamerica.com | Kelli Grant

A new study published in PLOS Global Public Health finds that the global mental health field remains largely shaped by elite, Western, and medicalized voices. The mixed-methods analysis, led by Farah Shiraz and colleagues from Denmark, Singapore, and the UK, reveals deep inequities in influence and calls for urgent reform to improve diversity, collaboration, and representation in global mental health policy.
Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz: Breaking Out of the Prison of Prescribing and Finding the Freedom of Therapy

1 month ago | madinamerica.com | Brooke Siem

On the Mad in America podcast this week, Brooke Siem, author of May Cause Side Effects, talks with Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz about their journey from working in the prison system to challenging conventional psychiatric narratives in their therapy practice and podcast, The Gaslit Truth. Dr. Teralyn Sell is a distinguished expert in Psychology and Brain Health, holding a PhD in Psychology and an MS in Counseling Psychology.
Why Neighborhood Matters in Psychosis Risk

1 month ago | madinamerica.com | Kevin Gallagher

In a recent review, researchers Deidre M. Anglin and Francesca Selloni chart a compelling case for expanding our understanding of psychosis by integrating biological, psychological, and social factors. Their work, published in Psychiatric Services, draws from the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) framework and connects psychosis risk to neighborhood-level factors, including ethnic density, structural racism, and social exclusion.
Confessions of an Advertising Writer: How I Helped Pharma Sell Antidepressants - Mad In America

1 month ago | madinamerica.com | Lydia Green

As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.
“Dad, Something's Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

2 months ago | madinamerica.com | Brooke Siem

Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I’m the author of May Cause Side Effects. Today, I’m here with Rick Fee, president of the Richard Fee Foundation. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to the audio of the interview here. Brooke Siem: We’re going to get straight into it because neither of us have letters after our names. We don’t need to go into a whole academic bio because that’s not why we’re here, is it? Rick Fee: No, it’s not.
Mental Health Care Is Stuck in the Wrong Frame and People Are Suffering

Feb 13, 2025 | madinamerica.com | Kevin Gallagher |in Pittsburgh

Dominant approaches to mental health have focused on the individual—framing distress as a result of biology, willpower, or personal coping failures. The field has made only limited forays into understanding the social conditions that shape mental well-being, typically in ways that reinforce societal norms and emphasize reintegrating individuals into the very structures that may be harming them.
Beyond Techniques: The Common Factors That Drive Healing

Jan 28, 2025 | madinamerica.com | Max Guttman

I still remember the first time I heard the acronym ACT. It was in graduate school, and the term felt both seductive and mysterious. Intrigued, I dove deeper, eventually applying for social work internship with the Southern Tier ACT Team. A few months later, I began my role as a social work intern for an evidence-based pilot program through the state university system.