Yearly Archives: 2023
Consciousness Is an Act of Rebellion
From Daniel Mackler: To become Self-aware, to begin to have a conscious relationship with our internal Self, is to begin to break out of all the systems that are unconscious.
My Sister Lucy’s Death and Life: Picturing an Alternate Timeline of Recovery
I’ll never forget standing beside my sister Lucy as she was strapped to a gurney during a midnight admission to an E.R. in Cambridge, Mass.
Akathisia and Prescribed Harm as Traumatic Chemical Brain Injury (TCBI)
I stopped thinking of akathisia in terms of the disease model and instead began thinking of it as an injury. Akathisia is not the car crash; it is a result of the car crash.
Can ChatGPT Defend the Long-term Use of Antipsychotics?
ChatGPT has perfectly captured the pattern of psychiatry’s response to the research that tells of harm done.
‘We Have a Neck’: Psychiatrist James Greenblatt on The Links Between Body and Brain
James Greenblatt is an innovator and longtime authority in the fields of integrative medicine and functional psychiatry, focusing on nutrition and other natural modes...
Patients Express Anger at Doctors’ Ignorance About Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects
Antidepressant users share their frustrations towards a healthcare system that overprescribes but is ill-equipped to support with discontinuation and withdrawal symptoms.
‘Serious Concerns’ Over Australia’s Landmark Psilocybin, MDMA Ruling
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation: What caused the typically conservative TGA to change its stance in a matter of months and become the first country in the world to reclassify psilocybin and MDMA as medicines?
Prolonged Negative Impacts of Benzodiazepine Use Revealed in New Study
Researchers find that adverse effects often last over a year, with many users experiencing substantial life changes.
Forced Psychiatry Is Expanding – At Society’s Peril
From The Globe and Mail: Research shows forced interventions are “often associated with negative outcomes” and experienced as “highly distressing and even traumatic.” So why are they on the rise?
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Eleven)
Peter Gøtzsche discusses the harmful effects of lithium and anti-epileptic drugs used for bipolar disorder.
Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, and Benzos All Increase Suicide Attempts in New Study
In a study of people with borderline personality disorder, only ADHD stimulants were associated with a decrease in suicide.
Psychiatry Killed Tuva Andersson, Whose Problem Was Anxiety
During the last year of Tuva’s life, her psychiatrists took away her hope of ever leaving psychiatry and becoming better.
A Son Died, His Parents Tried to Sue. How U.S. Courts Protect Big Pharma
From Reuters: Merck’s best-selling asthma medicine, Singulair, has been linked for years to suicides and psychiatric problems, often in children. But lawsuits over the drug are stymied by one of Corporate America’s most effective liability shields: the doctrine of federal preemption.
The Hidden Harms Within the Psychedelic Renaissance
If I would have read a story like this before I entered into psychedelic-assisted therapy, I would have been more careful, which might have prevented a lot of unnecessary hurt.
Antidepressants Can Cause ‘Chemical Castration’
From Maryanne Demasi Reports: Patients are not being warned of a persistent, irreversible type of genital mutilation that can be caused by SSRIs.
What Does ChatGPT Say About MIA?
I imagine that I am like many people when it comes to AI, which is that I don’t really know what to make of it. My first request was “write an essay about the Mad in America website.”
Popular ‘Benzo’ Drugs Linked to Suicide, Brain Damage — Even If You Stop Taking...
From The New York Post: Researchers have coined the term BIND, or benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction, to describe the long-lasting effects of benzo use.
Challenging Western-Centric Child Psychology: An Interview with Nandita Chaudhary
Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Nandita Chaudhary about children’s lives across cultures, the problems with global aid agencies and their interventions, psychology’s bias in the study of children, the limits of attachment theory and more.
Scars by Marlowe Dickens
Once I had a dream, I awoke in a
Hospital bed with my family and friends all around me.
My wrists were bound in bandages
And they...
Fractured Soul Factory by K.G. Munro
Many of us are broken
before we can even see the cracks
As we walk blindly through life
Enduring the fear and hatred
that we are steeped in...
Quandries of Perpetual Dischord by Elizabeth Moroz
Permanent irreversible Attatchment disorder
A lemonade stand at the Mexican Border
A traumatised disorganised old lady hoarder
The incriminating evidence on an old tape recorder
Elements of...
American Dream by Adam Coale
Sad, mad & feeling so defeated..
From this life long ago I retreated..
I long to come back ..
I long to start fresh…
A new day maybe?...
25 Years of Consciousness, and They Still Haven’t Cured My Suffering by Sarah Myers
After I went to the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness conference this weekend, I sat down with all the consciousness researchers to...
Bazooka Joe at the Shoe Store by Zak Mucha
Walking past a construction site and through
the creosote cloud of a childhood
shoe store, a kid embarrassed by the clerk’s
gift of a hard square of...
To My New Shrink by M.J. Hudson
A schizo still causing a commotion
long after being corrected by the law,
I, a jaded boozer, long unemployed,
after waking where madmen drown
waiting for a fair...
