Art, Poetry, and Humor Galleries
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Floodgates by Miles Harrop
From Wounds to Labels to “Mental Illness”
We don’t need to understand someone’s entire past to exercise a little emotional humility—to see behavior as adaptation, not brokenness.
Waking Up to Your Emotions 101: The Other Side of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Many people find themselves stuck: withdrawal symptoms might have passed, but emotionally, life feels overwhelming.
Are We Sober Yet?
I asked my psychiatrist if the Lexapro could be making it harder for me to stop drinking. He laughed and assured me that it was impossible.
Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing
Will psychedelics represent something different, or will we recreate the same problematic paradigms?
Where Is God When I Cut Myself? Soul Care and the Voices of Self-Injury Survivors
Care, as I’ve come to see it, is about sitting beside someone when the pain is too loud for words and not leaving.
The Pill That Stays After the Panic Ends
We need to stop expecting pills to do the work that only truth, connection, and expression can do. Relief is not the same as recovery.
Please join us on Thursday, June 26, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 5pm BST, 7pm CEST for a special webinar on Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: Living Well w/ Psychosis with Dr. Aaron P. Brinen, hosted by Ron Unger.
- June 24, 2025, 12:00 pm: Harm Reduction Approach to Self-Injury (June '25)
- June 26, 2025, 12:00 pm: Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: Living Well w/ Psychosis
- June 27, 2025, 1:00 pm: Bridging to Recovery When Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs, with Anders Sørensen, PhD
- July 3, 2025, N/A: Mad Camp Europe
- July 11, 2025, 1:00 pm: Young People & Suicide: A Training for Family and Friends
- July 21, 2025, 12:00 pm: Alternatives to Suicide Overview
Antipsychotics Do Not Provide a Clinically Meaningful Benefit Over the Short-Term: A Review of...
70 years of RCTs fail to provide evidence that antipsychotics provide a clinically meaningful benefit for treating acute psychotic episodes.
Veterans Take Their “War Cry For Change” to Capitol Hill
Despite VHA’s $571 million suicide prevention budget, veterans are dying by suicide at alarmingly high rates. Advocates want answers and accountability.
A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment
Therapist and coach Nelson Lee joins us on the podcast to discuss how he approaches helping clients while navigating the complexities of antidepressant withdrawal.
“Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands”: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life...
Paolo del Vecchio speaks with Leah Harris about his decades of public service at SAMHSA, what worries him most about mental health in today’s America, and where he sees hope in the recovery movement that he helped create.
The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer
Ayurdhi Dhar interviews influential cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer on how metaphors, histories, and social structures contour our experiences of suffering and healing.
Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think
The focus on diseased brains and genes obscures the significance of social and environmental influences.
“Present continuous”: searching for beauty.
A documentary by Ulises Rosell that shows what daily life is like for actress Valentina Bassi as the mother of Lisandro, a young neurodivergent man with a disability and in need of constant support.
The Truth About Self-Care: It Will Not Fix Your Problems!
In this myth-busting article, MISA writer Ayushi Jolly writes about the limitations of self-care, how it can lead to additional pressure and guilt, and how both ideas of ‘self’ and ‘care’ are different in many parts of the world.
If forced treatment amounts to torture, how can it legally –...
These critiques rock the foundation of how most of the western world view and treat mental illness currently. If they are accepted, and indeed they are scientifically robust analyses, it raises a shocking spectre for the profession of psychiatry, which, with the law on its side, engages in treating people – whether forcibly or not, with highly questionable methods. Perhaps this is not surprising, given the history of psychiatry.
