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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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Students Need "Pockets of Humanity" in a Harmful System, Study Finds

1 week ago | madinamerica.com | Kelli Grant

A new study published in SAGE Open offers insights into how U.S. schools, even amid systemic inequities and post-COVID stressors, can serve as “pockets of humanity” that support student mental health. The qualitative study conducted by Kate Somerville of the University of Virginia draws on interviews with 12 students involved in mental health activism.
A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment

2 weeks ago | madinamerica.com | Brooke Siem

Nelson Lee is a therapist and mental skills coach with a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling and an MBA. In 2024, he attempted to get off antidepressants that he’d been on for 15 years. This led to significant long-term medication withdrawal that Nelson is still navigating at the time of this interview. As a therapist, Nelson specializes in helping clients transform their relationships with themselves and others and overcome anxiety and OCD.
Addicted to Masculinity: How Patriarchal Ideals Fuel Substance Use

1 month ago | madinamerica.com | Kevin Gallagher

A recently published qualitative study in the journal Healthcare investigates the complex relationship between hegemonic masculinity, heteronormative sexual expectations, and addiction in men undergoing substance use treatment. The research, conducted by Camacho-Ruiz, Galvez-Sánchez, Galli, and Limiñana-Gras, draws on interviews with male participants at a residential addiction treatment facility in Spain.
Why We Need Sociology at the Heart of Mental Health Discourse

1 month ago | madinamerica.com | Kelli Grant

Sociology teaches that although social forces are not always visible, they are constantly at work, shaping relationships, systems, and experience. In a recent chapter titled “A Critical Manifesto for the Sociology of Mental Health”, sociologist Bruce Cohen, writing from New Zealand, urges the field of psychiatry to grapple with this reality.
Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care - Mad In America

1 month 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

1 month 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 months 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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months 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.