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LGBTQIA+ Peer Respites: The Personal Is Political

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Peer respites have great value. Affinity peer respites—such as an LGBTQIA+ peer respite—may have even more.

Medically-Assisted Suicide Is Not a Win for Mental Health

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Medically assisting someone in suiciding because they’re poor or experiencing mental or emotional distress does not value life; it shows a blatant disregard for it.
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Emotional Crisis Response: The Peer-Run Respite/Soteria House Approach Compared to the Conventional Approach

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The peer respite/Soteria house model responds to emotional crisis with compassion and curiosity, rather than pathologizing.
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Two)

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Peter Gøtzsche reviews the evidence that psychosis pills substantially increase mortality.

One Pill To Disrupt: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and the Marital Relationship

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The suicidality that accompanies akathisia is the natural human impulse to escape being tortured. To save my wife, the woman I love, I was forced to argue for her continued torture.

Mad Poetry Slam!

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Poets with lived experience with mental distress are invited to perform their poetry live at MIA's Mad Poetry Slam on Zoom on May 7th, 12PM EST.

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