Depressed student holding a lot of medicine while sitting on her bed

Psychiatric Butchery: What I’ve Seen at a Homeless Shelter for Women with Children

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Children are being given psychiatric drugs, “treated” for the abuse they receive in the harsh world of the homeless.

Mad in Ireland

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Although Jennifer Hough’s older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen,...

A Victim Re-Victimised

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I had just been physically abused, deprived of my liberty and had my property stolen. Yet, I was the one who was being arrested.
A photo of RFK Jr. emerges from a pile of blue pills

RFK Jr. May Be Wrong on Many Medical Issues, But He’s Right About Antidepressants

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Documented cases show a link between SSRIs and school violence, but pharma has suppressed the data that could prove this link.
A drawing of a human head, brain visible in profile, being burned

Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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Testimony submitted to the Connecticut state legislature in opposition to a bill expanding forced ECT.
Two hands holding pills, one with a smiley face, the other with x's for eyes and a frown

Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides

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Depression drugs don’t work, and they increase suicide.

Art, Poetry, and Humor Galleries

View the artwork, poetry, and humor galleries and submit your work. Or visit the Arts Corner.

Deep Blue by Iluminada Santos

Dr. Morgan Shields of Washington University in St. Louis is conducting research on the experience of people utilizing behavioral health crisis services.They are recruiting people who have direct lived experience as patients/recipients or providers/clinicians of these types of interventions and those with indirect experience as loved ones to participate in a brief survey and, if eligible and able, an online focus group. Focus groups will last 1.5 hours, and participants will receive a $50 gift card for their time. Their involvement will also inform important research on access to care and quality of services. If interested, take the 5-minute screening survey here.  
 

Maike Holleck, doctoral candidate at Texas A&M University, is currently seeking parents as participants to interview and learn from in order to help counselors better serve them and their adolescent children. You can follow this link if interested in participating.

Survivors And Families Empowered (SAFE) has developed a pilot project to work with caring families who have been stymied in their search for support and help. You can fill out their survey here.

Please join us on Saturday, February 22, at 1PM ET, for The Case For Soteria: Past, Present and Future, a special panel on the Soteria house model of treatment.

Psychotherapy and Social Change: Mick Cooper on Counseling, Pluralism, and Progressive Politics

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Javier Rizo interviews Mick Cooper on the intersection of psychotherapy and social transformation, the pluralistic approach to counseling, and the role of psychology in building a more just society.

“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of...

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Psychologist and existential thinker Brent Robbins reflects on a lifetime of work, the limits of psychiatric diagnosis, and what facing mortality has taught him about joy and human connection.

Kids Are Not the Problem: An Interview With Gretchen LeFever Watson

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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...

Peer Support and Resistance: Becky Brasfield’s Vision for Mental Health Justice

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In this interview with Ayurdhi Dhar, Becky Brasfield calls for radical truth-telling in the mental health system.

Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the...

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American psychiatry, the NIMH, the larger medical community, and mainstream media have betrayed the American public by failing to make this scandal known.

Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy

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Susan Grundy on her lifelong caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13.

EDITOR'S PICK

Welcome to the digital market meeting on Thursday, February 20, 2025

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Since January 2023, I have offered a digital room for conversations about how we can understand and manage mental health problems without diagnoses and psychotropic drugs. The room has come to be called Digitalt torgmöte and has been open once a month.

Awareness – an unused resource in the Norwegian healthcare system

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To meet the health challenges of the future, we must recognize that being human is about more than bodily functions – it is also about meaning, relationships and a deeper understanding of ourselves. The seven columnists encourage a broader conversation about the role of consciousness in creating more health in ourselves and our surroundings.

The Utopia of Reality

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When we are asked to organize a health service (in our psychiatric case), the difficulty is to find concrete answers to the specific questions that come from the concrete reality in which it operates. But the responses concerning reality should transcend it (through the utopian element), trying to transform it.

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