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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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Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz: Breaking Out of the Prison of Prescribing and Finding the Freedom of Therapy

1 week 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

3 weeks 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

3 weeks 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

1 month 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

2 months ago | 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

2 months ago | 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.
Kids Are Not the Problem: An Interview With Gretchen LeFever Watson

Jan 22, 2025 | madinamerica.com | Brooke Siem

In this interview, Brooke Siem, who is the author of a memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects, interviews Gretchen LeFever Watson, PhD. Gretchen is a developmental and clinical psychologist with postdoctoral training in pediatric psychology. She has served as a professor in multiple disciplines at universities and medical schools in the United States and abroad and as the patient safety director for a large healthcare system.
Rethinking the Black-White Mental Health Paradox Through Intersectionality

Jan 22, 2025 | madinamerica.com | Kelli Grant

For decades, researchers have been grappling with what’s known as the Black-White Mental Health Paradox (BWMHP): Black Americans consistently report lower rates of depression and anxiety than White Americans, despite enduring significantly greater social and structural stressors. A recent study by Megan E.
Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Jan 4, 2025 | madinamerica.com | Robert Whitaker

Last spring, it seemed certain that the story of the STAR*D scandal, which Mad in America has been reporting on for 14 years, would finally attract the attention of the mainstream media. All of the ingredients for a blockbuster article were now clearly visible, including an acknowledgement from inside psychiatry that this story was of profound importance for all of our society. Yet, the media has remained silent, and now the scandal is fading away.
Video: Origins of Mental Disturbance in a 'Normal' Family - Like Mine - Peter Sterling

Dec 18, 2024 | madinamerica.com | James Moore

ABSMC Psychiatry Grand Rounds presentation by Neuroscientist Peter Sterling, PhD on December 2, 2024. In this video, Peter Sterling talks of his family experiences and it follows on from a previous discussion where Peter explained that mental disorders are not brain disorders. To view the video, click here. The video is free to watch after filling in name and email address.