“Assault” and “Torture”: Patients Recall the Institutional Violence of Forced Drugging By Richard Sears www.madinamerica.com/2026/07/assa...

Mad in Mexico: This essay addresses several debates surrounding “borderline personality disorder (BPD),” a highly stigmatized and gendered psychiatric label disproportionately applied to cisgender women and used to invalidate their experiences. buff.ly/5vWFOA0

Mad in the UK: When someone seeks therapy, they are often already carrying more than they can comfortably manage. They may be distressed, frightened, grieving, overwhelmed, isolated or trying to make sense of experiences they have never spoken about before. buff.ly/TJtR4MZ

Mad in Germany: This is the story of my life – as I experienced it. I cannot definitively prove what role the antibiotics, the mental health crises, or other stressors played. #madintheworld

From Mad in Portugal: In this haunting account of a community art project, Anthropologist and artist Adriana Santos Lopes describes entering the grounds of a Portuguese psychiatric hospital as part of an artist residency. #madart buff.ly/szadOaN

Featured Artwork: Blossom Buddha by Tybee Maitri Mixed Media Collage, 2025 Visit our gallery and share your artwork here: buff.ly/gCcRpeT

From Mad in Slovenia: Modern positive psychology offers an interesting answer: well-being is not something we achieve once and for all, but something we build every day. buff.ly/APec24m

From Mad in Puerto Rico: Despite being given this cocktail of medications supposedly treating the symptoms of emotional distress they are experiencing, suicide rates among veterans are extremely high. buff.ly/E3J8WqH

From Mad in Brazil: The demedicalization and depathologization of care and life are favored by the expansion of collective autonomy and care capacity through belonging to an affective network. buff.ly/0xbJkmH

Depression Drug Approved by FDA Had 11 Failed Trials and an Advisory Committee Vote Against Approval by Peter Simons on the Mad in America Substack Two positive studies out of 13 conducted. Rejected by the FDA four times. buff.ly/cupIIWm

From Locura en Argentina: In this piece, writer Bernabé De Vinsenci challenges the notion of contemporary normality as a legitimate attitude within an apocalyptic social process.

From Mad in South Asia: Divya Kalathingal examines the emotional, ethical, and practical burdens of psychiatric caregiving, critiquing medication-focused treatment, limited patient autonomy, inadequate support for families, and persistent stigma surrounding mental illness and ageing buff.ly/kUlDOyq

MIA affiliate, Mad in Norway, is hosting an international film festival from September 24-26 in Lillehammer, Norway. Each week, we will feature a film. This week is Emotional CPR Awakens Our Hearts. buff.ly/7LVmrER

From Mad in Ireland: A new MyUpLift public petition by Health Stores Ireland, “Save Our Supplements,” is calling on Irish public representatives to scrutinize proposed EU regulations reducing the permitted strength of many vitamin and mineral supplements. buff.ly/yAxLWCw

The Call for Art! Mad in Norway is seeking submissions for a digital Art Exhibit to be displayed between films throughout the Mad in Norway International Film Festival on September 24 to 26, 2026 in Lillehammer, Norway. The call is be open for one month, starting today! #artheals buff.ly/ZOf60JI

From Mad in Italy: This article summarizes and expands on the original narrative published at the link above, adapting it to the Italian context and integrating it with updated epidemiological data, clinical reflections, and specific implications for general practice in our country. buff.ly/gqNXP3k

Mad in America affiliate, Mad in Norway, is hosting an international film festival from September 24-26 in Lillehammer, Norway. Each week, we will feature a film. This week is In Love with Craziness. buff.ly/KAoiuDp

From Mad in Greece: Jordan Reyne rose to prominence through her distinctly atmospheric and often dark music, which develops through the motifs and themes of Steampunk. buff.ly/VAHnhnH

From Mad in Canada: The following is Irit’s Mad Pasts, Mad Prescence conference talk, as she wrote it: In 1978, when I was 20 years old, I had three big shocks in a row. First, my father, who I lived with, told me he was getting married again and I’d have to move out. buff.ly/90LbViP

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From Mad in Finland: I don't think I can describe or understand what a paradigm shift in psychiatry should be like and what the reality of a new kind of mental health work should look like as a whole. Such a goal would be impossible for one person and one article. buff.ly/t4CPEJJ

From Mad in the Netherlands: From approximately age 35, women's sex hormone levels decline, specifically estrogen and progesterone (Mosconi, 2024 – The Menopause Brain). buff.ly/OFegg8k

Our Mad in America affiliate, Mad in Norway, is hosting an international film festival from September 24-26 in Lillehammer, Norway. Each week, we will feature a film. This week is Life After You. buff.ly/lMSnJQX

From Mad in Sweden: In a new report, the Swedish Medical Products Agency expresses concern about the sharp increase in ADHD diagnoses in Sweden. buff.ly/ygMiuV4

Mad in Norway: This year's "Hamar Dialogues" was the second time in Mad in Norway's history. The gathering took place at the Hamar Scandic Hotel, and the participant list had grown by a whole school class since last year, now reaching 84 people. buff.ly/UnP2sT9

The Call for Art! Mad in Norway is seeking submissions for a digital Art Exhibit to be displayed between films throughout the Mad in Norway International Film Festival on September 24 to 26, 2026 in Lillehammer, Norway. The call is be open for one month, starting today! #artheals buff.ly/ZOf60JI

Our Mad in America affiliate, Mad in Norway, is hosting an international film festival from September 24-26 in Lillehammer, Norway. Each week, we will feature a film. This week is Life After You. #madintheworld buff.ly/5cpwrnt

Mad in the UK: Some people weren’t taught safety, so they learnt surveillance, which often makes them the most perceptive people in the room. Do you seem to notice things before anyone else? The almost imperceptible tightening around the eyes of the man across the table. buff.ly/SYVSzgt

From Mad in Deutschland: It all started in October 2018 in the quiet, academic atmosphere of Leipzig. I was there to do my doctorate – a dream I had worked towards for years. But after my return from a research stay in China, the retreat of my home began to dissolve. buff.ly/6Di2qQX

Poem of the Week: The Voice by Nicola Clare Follow the link for the text and a spoken-word rendition of the poem: buff.ly/kimNrrR