A roundup of Mad in America's most read blogs and personal stories of 2025 as chosen by our readers.

A new systematic historical and meta-analytic review published in the Journal of Affective Disorders found inconsistent and ...

Limiting someone’s dreams based on a professional opinion of what is possible for people with serious mental illnesses is ...

A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

As a certified paranoid schizophrenic who inadvertently took my own mother’s life while going through my first major ...

Response and remission rates failed to beat placebo in a new Harvard meta-analysis, throwing the inflammation hypothesis into ...

It seems fitting that this history of mental health ends with Oregon’s attempt to grapple with the needs of children and ...

The focus on crisis work displaces our attention and resources onto the symptomatic rather than the essential issues.

Mental health services force electroshock, rarely asking about causes like childhood adversities and recent stressors; few ...

The irony of antidepressants was that they were supposed to lift me out of depression, but they only dragged me down deeper.

A new study examining 218 mental health professionals in Spain reveals that recovery-oriented training doesn't impact ...

In a new paper published in NPP – Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience, researchers argue that including scientists with lived ...