The Mind Electric by ミラクルミュージカル (Miracle Musical)
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Community-Based Mental Health Care Offers Promising Alternative to Psychiatric Hospitalization for Adolescents
Intensive community care services (ICCS) provide home and community care for people suffering from psychological distress. These services offer an alternative to (often coercive)...
Seeing BPD in a Positive Light: An Interview with Dr. Shay Welch
Those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder are told that their very personalities are disordered, pathological or just intolerable.
Winning Norwegian Lawsuits about Forced Drugging with Antipsychotics
I am proud of the four brave Norwegian women who challenged a deeply unjust and inhumane system with tremendous power at its disposal and won.
How Big Pharma Shapes Medical Science, Influences Doctors, and Undermines Patient Care
This week, Mad in America explores three new articles around pharmaceutical industry corruption. The first examines industry’s hidden influence over medical research and healthcare...
How My Body Rejected Lithium After 25 Years
I was promised mood stability and less suicidal ideation. It was supposedly the leading option, my best line of defense. That is what I was told for the next 25 years, but I was never told about lithium toxicity.
Dangerous Gifts: Rethinking Madness, Healing, and Human Connection – A Conversation With Sascha DuBrul
Sascha du Brul's interests lie at the intersection of the public mental health system and the mad underground movement. He joins us to discuss his two decades of activism in psychiatric circles.
How My Body Rejected Lithium After 25 Years
I was promised mood stability and less suicidal ideation. It was supposedly the leading option, my best line of defense. That is what I was told for the next 25 years, but I was never told about lithium toxicity.
I’m Done With Mental Health Providers
When people ask me why I didn’t kick or punch the nurse administering the shots, I don’t have a good answer. I’m just not good at violence. The psychiatrists are, though.
The Illusion of Patient Rights in Psychiatric Units
Reviewing the rights board in the hallway, I vocally indicated to the staff where their policy deviated from state law, and I was met with disregard that devolved to disdain.
Dangerous Gifts: Rethinking Madness, Healing, and Human Connection – A Conversation With Sascha DuBrul
Sascha du Brul's interests lie at the intersection of the public mental health system and the mad underground movement. He joins us to discuss his two decades of activism in psychiatric circles.
From Eradicating Psychosis to Being With Voices: A Psychiatrist’s Journey from Biomedical Nihilism to Experiences of Humanity
I had compassion for the people on the other side of the fishbowl; I could see myself in them. My colleagues thought this was a problem.
Overcoming Schizophrenia and Transforming Psychiatry: An Interview with Dr. Daniel Fisher
Editor's Note: This Mad in the World report features an interview with eCPR founder Dr. Daniel Fisher, interviewed by Locura en Argentina founder Alan...
A Biological Psychiatrist Wins the Nobel
Optogenetics won the Nobel Prize. How excited—or worried—should we be? The experts’ own words tell the story.
Being Mindful of Agony: How to Incorporate the Sublime in Our Daily Life—An Interview with Will Adams
MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar talks to Will Adams about trauma and contemplative practice, the delusion of separation that plagues humanity, the punitive infantilization of psychiatric patients, and how mindfulness must not be restricted to a meditation cushion.
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It Is a Strength To Ask for Help by Dawn Allen
New in Poetry
Reality Kicks by Terese Blåklokke
Learning the truth
can tear you apart
wrench your guts
and change
your heart
the solution is simple
but hard to complete
you must
let it rip
and reap the wheat
you...
Research Studies
Participants Needed for Research Study: Recently Discharged from a Psychiatric Hospital? A doctoral research study is seeking adults who have been discharged from an inpatient psychiatric facility within the past 90 days to participate in a confidential study about their experiences with mental health support after discharge. Email Sidney Hale at [email protected] if you’re interested in participating.
Research Participants Needed: Are You Reducing or Stopping a Psychiatric Medication? We are a research team at the University of Washington studying how people taper or stop psychiatric medications such as antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and stimulants. If you are over 18 years old and currently reducing or stopping (tapering) a psychiatric medication, we would love to hear about your experiences. Click here to take the eligibility survey.
ANTIDEPRESSANT RISKS: IN CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT WHITAKER: Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 6PM GMT, online. Join Antidepressant Risks for a special one-hour conversation between founder Katinka Blackford Newman and award-winning journalist and author Robert Whitaker. Katinka will be sitting down with Robert to discuss his work, research and writing on psychiatry, psychiatric drugs and the pharmaceutical industry. There will also be an opportunity for the audience to take part in the conversation and ask Robert questions directly. Purchase your ticket here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/antidepressantrisks/2444447.
