Mad in America

May 22, 2024: When Darkness Traps People, Consider The System

May 8, 2024: The Recording of MIA’s ‘Extreme States’ Panel Just Dropped. Watch It. 

April 24, 2024: Don’t Blame The Brain for The Effects of Childhood Trauma

April 10, 2024: Coming May 4: A Second Panel on Ways To Support Extreme States

April 3, 2024: Teaching Kids How to Understand Themselves—and Others

March 20, 2024: Going Outside: The Real World’s Impact on Youth Mental Health

March 6, 2024: People with Lived Experience, Family Members: Two Surveys Want Your Voice

Feb. 20, 2024: What New Parents Need Most for Their Mental Health: Support

Feb. 14, 2024: Forced Hospitalization: For Kids and Adults, It Makes No Sense

Feb. 2, 2024: Save The Date: A New Panel on Supporting Extreme States

Jan. 17, 2024: The Lingering Wounds of Racism and Poverty

Jan. 2, 2024: ‘That Snake Is in Your Life: Trauma’s Enduring Impact’

Dec. 6, 2023: It’s Normal To Be Abnormal: On Overdiagnosis, and What Psychiatry Gets Wrong

Nov. 22, 2023: Being Present in The Moment: On Families and Causes for Gratitude

Nov. 8, 2023: The Toxic Power of Labels in Stripping Away Rights

Oct.  25, 2023: Freedom, Joy, and Therapists Good and Bad: Memories of Childhood

Oct. 18, 2023: IIPDW To Host New Conference on Withdrawal

Oct. 11, 2023: Kids Are At Risk Where They Should Be Safest: At Home

Sept 27, 2023: The Human Need To Connect and Be Heard

Sept. 17, 2023: A Young Woman’s Words of Hope

Aug. 30, 2023: Poverty Hurts: Food Insecurity and Youth Mental Health

Aug. 17, 2023: Voices of Truth and Hope: Reflections On The Family Panel

Aug. 9, 2023: Solving The Puzzle, Providing Support: Two Sources of Information and Insight

Aug. 2, 2023: Seeing People as People, In Their Own Worlds

July 19, 2023: The Power of Connection in Sharing Our Loved Ones’ Stories

July 12, 2023: Coming Soon: A New Family Panel on Helping Kids in Crisis

July 5, 2023: Listening to Our Kids—and Learning From Them

June 21, 2023: Growing the Mad in the Family Community as a Platform for Hope

June 7, 2023: Playtime Is The Freedom Just To Be

May 24, 2023: Finding Our Way: Takeaways from the Sound Mind Live Festival

May 17, 2023: Parents Are Experts Too Often Ignored

May 3, 2023: People Aren’t Just One Thing—and Neither Are Families

April 26, 2023: Stories of Hope and Triumph: a New Webinar on Withdrawal

April 12, 2023: MIA’s Europe Support Group Now Includes U.S. 

April 5, 2023: Music Helps Kids (and Grown-Ups, Too)

March 22, 2023: Social media’s impact on youth mental health

March 15, 2023: Spreading The Word

March 2, 2023: Everyone Has a Story

February 24, 2023: So Long, For Now…and What’s Next

January 26, 2023: New Online Support Groups Forming

September 29,2022: Mental Health and Our Schools, Part 2

August 16, 2022: Ken Burns’ “Hiding in Plain Sight…”: Candid Interviews, Canned Conclusions

May 26, 2022: When Attending School Becomes a Mental Health Risk

May 17: What’s Eating Parents? Decision Fatigue and Burnout

April 27: From Stats and Stories to Solutions

April 12: Saving Lives or Cementing Stigma? A Review of “Just Like You…”