Brainstorm:
In collaboration with Usorum, Mad in America is hosting a weeklong “Brainstorm” discussion on this topic: “Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: If it worked for you, what helped?” Usorum is a new non-profit led by Dimitriy Gutkovich, a voice-hearer who has written for Mad in America. Add your thoughts to this first “Brainstorm.”
The Aggressive Suppression of Spiritual Awakening
As they handed her hospital pajamas, similar to the orange prison suits you see on TV, she suddenly understood how little these people could help.
What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?
To recover from protracted withdrawal, I did everything I could to survive the process and help my body and mind heal.
Is Mental Health a Choice—and Can Understanding Help Us Heal?
There’s a pattern and a purpose to what the mind does. You can’t change it, you have to understand it.
Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?
Left-wing critique has always challenged powerful vested interests that prefer not to be disturbed.
Go Where You Are Watered
It is now five years after I had the courage to take hold of my own destiny. To not let people make me feel like I was less-than due to a diagnosis.
Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects
A response to a seriously flawed review.
Please join us Saturday, October 5, for a special panel discussion on Antidepressants and Homicide: Automatism Spectrum Disorders
MIA Education
Mad in America Education is hosting a 10-session workshop developed by our affiliate Mad in South Asia on “Decolonizing Psychotherapy: Making Clinical Practice Inclusive for Everyone.” Mad in South Asia has sharply discounted the course price for MIA readers (use code MIASUB). The first session is on Sept. 28.
Now You See Me by Marlena KolesinskaInternational online survey on the positive and negative effects of ECT, for patients and their loved ones. Please see here for more information.
From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice
In this interview, Daniel Gaztambide discusses how decolonial perspectives can transform psychoanalytic practice.
Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness
In contrast to the colonial legacy of medical psychiatry in India, indigenous and faith healing methods emphasize the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit, using rituals, storytelling, and communal support to create a holistic healing environment.
MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment
“We need the MindFreedom Shield to have someone in our corner when we are told that it doesn't matter what we want, that someone else can make a choice about our bodies that we will have to live with for the rest of our lives.”
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.
“Madness is not dangerous, it is valuable because it gives meaning...
Diego Capra was born in Mar del Plata in 1991 and survived childhood sexual abuse. He is the trans author of the books Chinito and Ladrillos en el cielo .
An Open Letter to My Favorite Wellness Writer
One must do the best for oneself (subjectively) and one must only prioritize the greater good if it’s also good for them. This is not to be selfish, but to think about one’s genuine needs, taking off the weighted jacket of society’s expectations.
Notes on being labelled ‘paranoid schizophrenic’
"I do not consider myself to be ‘beside myself with fear’ or have for many years. Nor have I suffered major delusions in over 20 years. I may initially have suffered these, but that was 28 years ago. Do I still deserve this label? I’ve asked my local Department of Psychiatry to change my diagnosis to ‘discrete episodic psychosis’ but they refuse to."
