The Connection Between Traumatic Brain Injury and Young Adult Suicide Risk
Researchers present evidence of a connection between the experience of traumatic brain injury in childhood and increased risk for suicide attempt in early adulthood.
The Bipolar Artist: A Lifelong Sentence to Bear
I was told that I had only two choices: Do not have children, or take lithium while I was pregnant—the drug that posed the least amount of birth defects, and the very medication that had killed the painter in me years ago. I refused both options and set out on my own, and luckily found a willing psychiatrist to help me taper off the meds.
Helping Children to Overcome OCD: 6 Creative Strategies for Parents
Here, Dr. Ben Furman offers a creative approach to helping children who struggle with OCD. Explaining why behaviors like reasoning, reassuring, and superstitious rituals don’t work, he suggests engaging alternatives that teach kids how to manage their “worry monster” and make sense of their distressing experience.
FDA Approves Using Electricity All Night Long on Children’s Brains
The FDA just approved sales of an electrical device called the Monarch eTNS to be used on the brains of children diagnosed with so-called ADHD. The device “sends therapeutic signals to the parts of the brain thought to be involved in ADHD,” according to the FDA press release. “Therapeutic signals”? Really?
Third Time Lucky: Open Dialogue and Finding Meaning in My Inherited Trauma
A year after my twin’s death, I stood in a supermarket and felt my body disintegrating into a thousand pieces. My soul knew it needed the right teacher and helper. Fortunately, I found Open Dialogue. It helped me expose the real childhood trauma, and gradually rebuild my shattered, grief-stricken psyche.
Are Antidepressants Enabling the Population to Tolerate the Intolerable?
Just how sad is our current state of affairs that it causes so much of the population to feel depressed and/or anxious? Just how much are these drugs changing the state of our society as a whole? Are the drugs desensitizing the population to the point that it will tolerate social conditions it would otherwise find intolerable?
My Son and the “Mental Health” System
As a father whose 27-year-old son is trapped in the mental health system, I am painfully aware that I have been unable to protect him. At age 19, my son naively told his mother and his doctor that he was hearing voices, marking the beginning of a hellish nightmare which he is still unavoidably immersed in. I would like to explain my perspective on why this is the case.
APA Meeting Protest
Psychiatric survivors at the annual APA meeting in San Francisco tell their stories on video. Psychiatrists are asked to listen and respond.
Symposium for Scientific Freedom
Videos of the presentations at the Symposium for Scientific Freedom in Copenhagen on March 9 can be found here.
Research Surveys
Ongoing studies seeking participants for surveys on mental health issues. The newest survey is seeking input from doctors, therapists, nurses, social workers, etc. on their ideas about approaches to mental health care.
ARTWORK AND POETRY
Smoking Cessation and Psychiatric Drugs Cause the Most Suicidal and Homicidal Reactions
The popular smoking cessation drug Chantix is the medication that most frequently makes people feel suicidal or homicidal, according to figures gathered by the...
Why My Daughter Died and I Lived
To be a parent of a suicidal child is to be in a terrible position, where you hold in your hands the life most valuable to you and know that any slip of your hands may end that life. In the 1970s, my suicidality was treated nonmedically and I lived. In the 2000s, my daughter Martha’s suicidality was treated medically and she died.
MIA GLOBAL
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Mad in Sweden officially launches, March 16, 2019.
Psychiatric Drugs: Why They Often Fail Us Over Long Term
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Whitaker - Treatments Alternative to Psychiatry - March 8, 2019 - Dispuk - CPH
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The Science and Pseudoscience of Women’s Mental Health Conversation with Kelly Brogan
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Is fast acting buprenorphine the best treatment for opiate addiction?
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Robert Whitaker - Scientific Censorship in Psychiatry - March 9, 2019 - CPH
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“ADHD: A Return to Psychology” Video Series, Part 1
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The Fragile Pillars of Biological Determinism for ADHD
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ADHD: Medicate and Coerce or Develop Self-Reliance and Cooperation?
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Mad in America Film Festival - Panel
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Open Paradigm Project - Daniel Mackler
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Open Paradigm Project - Laura Nicole Sisson
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UCLA/ISEPP - Laura Delano
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"Voices Matter"
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Episode 18 David Mielke: Educating in the Era of Psychiatric Diagnosis
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