For the Record
Here and now, I am Ativan-free and slowly tapering off Wellbutrin after 25+ years. Unable to work due to the severity of iatrogenic injury, I sometimes think of myself as a healing journeywoman. When the terrain is especially rough, I reflect on the words: "The best revenge is living a happy, healthy life." When circumstances and symptoms permit, I’m doing just that.
For the Record
Here and now, I am Ativan-free and slowly tapering off Wellbutrin after 25+ years. Unable to work due to the severity of iatrogenic injury, I sometimes think of myself as a healing journeywoman. When the terrain is especially rough, I reflect on the words: "The best revenge is living a happy, healthy life." When circumstances and symptoms permit, I’m doing just that.
Tom Paine, Christianity, and Modern Psychiatry
Early in The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine attacks the hypocrisy of religious professionals. If alive today, Paine may well have been even rougher on psychiatrists. He revered science, and he would have been enraged by professionals who make pseudoscientific proclamations.
ECT Litigation Update: Are Patients Being Warned of Brain Damage Risk?
Upon review of hundreds of the "informed" consent forms received from those suffering permanent cognitive impairment after receiving ECT, the overwhelming majority do not provide the patient with any form of disclosure that "brain damage is a risk that can potentially occur from ECT, whether performed properly or not."
Two Years Tapering an Antidepressant – A Life-Changing Experience That I Didn’t Want
My heart goes out to anyone experiencing withdrawal, but especially those who are so ill they can’t work and are struggling to navigate a heartless and cynical ‘benefits’ system. Their only crime is to have experienced difficulty from a prescribed treatment, yet they are treated as medical pariahs.
The Three Types of Psychiatric Drugs – A Doctor’s Guide for Consumers
Psychiatrists say little in their brief sessions. But if you take the few things they do say, read between the lies and boil them down to their essence, you’ll be left with this message: “Whatever is upsetting you is not worth listening to — just shut up and take one of these shut-up pills.”
A Smashing Victory — And an Insidious New Threat
Afraid of facing me in court, the state gave up entirely and a young man was freed from involuntary ECT treatment. It was a total victory. Meanwhile, the Psychiatric Industrial Complex is finding more subtle ways to inflict electrical energy upon the brains of children labeled with ADHD.
MIA Free Library
We are pleased to announce the opening of the MIA Free Library, which will provide a space for books written by psychiatric survivors and others that have not found a home with traditional book publishers. The first book in our library is by Don Weitz, Resistance Matters: The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist.
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
New Study Explores Approaches to Discontinuing Antidepressants
Psychiatrist and psychologist outline pharmacological and psychotherapeutic strategies for discontinuing antidepressants.
Childhood Bipolar Disorder, Deconstructed
Diagnosing children with juvenile or pediatric bipolar disorder is largely an American phenomenon. Do we actually have more “bipolar” children in the United States—or are we simply labeling more of them as such? If it is ever fair to call a child “manic,” isn’t the child’s environment the direction in which we should look?
Psychiatric Drugs: Why They Often Fail Us Over Long Term
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Whitaker - Treatments Alternative to Psychiatry - March 8, 2019 - Dispuk - CPH
58:01
The Science and Pseudoscience of Women’s Mental Health Conversation with Kelly Brogan
01:00:11
Is fast acting buprenorphine the best treatment for opiate addiction?
03:59
Robert Whitaker - Scientific Censorship in Psychiatry - March 9, 2019 - CPH
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“ADHD: A Return to Psychology” Video Series, Part 1
23:54
The Fragile Pillars of Biological Determinism for ADHD
45:00
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
08:02
UCLA/ISEPP - Laura Delano
28:12
"Voices Matter"
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Episode 18 David Mielke: Educating in the Era of Psychiatric Diagnosis
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