Do Depression Pills Improve Quality of Life?
In the upside-down world of psychiatry, the pills that destroy your sex life are called happy pills. I call them unhappy pills or anti-sex pills.
What I’ve Learned about Tapering Psychiatric Drugs—A Holistic Therapist’s Perspective
Liberation from pharmaceuticals is possible, but it is not an easy journey. I advocate for informed consent.
The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful
The victims of psychiatric iatrogenesis believed they were taking a vitamin, only to later realize it was poison.
Recovery from Psychosis in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Is Possible
The biggest injustice done to a person with such a diagnosis is to give up on them for the rest of their life.
Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I Do
I sought help and followed the prescribed path. About twenty years later, I began to question, "What is happening? Why am I still stuck?"
Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?
The medications are there to disconnect us from our divine, creative Self, but the human being is remarkable and incredibly resilient.
The Grunt Style Foundation, a non-profit veterans organization, has mounted a campaign for “informed consent” and safe deprescribing of psychiatric drugs. Mad in America is supporting the initiative by publishing the stories of veterans harmed by psychiatric drugs. Members of the veterans community can submit their stories to the Grunt Style Foundation here.
The Holy Toe by Old Bones Inc.International online survey on the positive and negative effects of ECT, for patients and their loved ones. Please see here for more information.
The Path from Trauma to The Power of Nature: An Interview with Banning Lyon
Our guest today is Banning Lyon, author of The Chair and The Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and The Outdoors. An account of...
Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell
In this interview, Jazmine Russell describes her journey through psychosis and mental health advocacy to embracing a multiplicity of frameworks in Mad Studies.
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz
Tapering should be tailored and adjusted to the patient, slowed and more hyperbolic in people who have severe and longstanding reactions.
A Win for Science, with Profound Implications for Industry: FDA Rejects MDMA
Concerns, from functional unblinding to sexual assault in the clinical trials, led this week to a full repudiation of Lykos' MDMA-assisted therapy.
Our Medical System Protects Wrongdoers and Punishes Whistleblowers: An Interview with Carl Elliott
MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Carl Elliott about scandals in psychiatry and the challenges faced by whistleblowers.
The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry
Normal reactions transformed into illnesses, emotions stripped of meaning, & people deprived of their autonomous coping skills and supports.
Accompanying madness in the institutional context (Part 3)
The following writing is the narration of a mental health professional, living in Mexico City, who tells the experiences she lived through her time in different mental health centers in the city. During this narration, she intends not only to testify what happened within these institutions, but also to question the sane logic that is implemented during training and that determines the actions of professionals in their care practice.
Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I...
I was in pain, wanting a better life for my children and myself. I sought help and followed the prescribed path, as I mentioned earlier. I was compliant. Almost twenty years later, I began to question, “What is happening? Why am I still stuck? How do I get unstuck? How do I live a beautiful life? Who am I? What is my purpose? When does someone declare me well?” These questions multiplied, but I stopped relying on others for answers.
“Avian psychosis could redefine our understanding of modern science” Timothy Ahtisaari
Finnish physicist and geologist Timothy Ahtisaari challenges the conventional boundaries of science by introducing the idea of quantum overflows. In this interview, Ahtisaari explains how these quantum phenomena could influence geological and biological changes on macroscopic scales, and also addresses their impact on the behaviour of migratory birds such as the Capilla del Monte red-backed thrush. Here he explains his hypothesis about psychosis as a revealing and transformative factor, as well as being an indicator of fundamental changes in our understanding of the interaction between quantum physics, geology and biology.
