Yearly Archives: 2023
DOOCE: A Case Study on the Failure of Psychiatry
Heather Armstrong’s life was taken by psychiatry, and our unwillingness to scrutinize their methods of madness.
Trauma Responses Are Conditioned, Not “Chosen”
From Dr. Glenn Doyle: From our nervous system’s point of view, if it had to wait around for us to think about everything that happens to us or "choose" a response, we’d have been eaten by sabre tooth tigers eons ago.
David Carmichael—The Antidepressant Safety Tour
Drug safety advocate David Carmichael joins us to discuss his upcoming antidepressant safety tour and the importance of fully informed consent when prescribing SSRI antidepressants.
Interview with Robert Whitaker – How Psychiatry Lost Its Way
From Witt-Doerring Psychiatry: Robert Whitaker and Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring discuss what is wrong with the way psychiatry is practiced today, why there are so many problems and why they haven't been fixed.
It’s Time for Soteria: An Australian Perspective
Soteria-style community houses are a proven, viable, cost effective alternative to traditional psychiatric hospitals.
Psychiatric Incarceration Isn’t Treatment — It’s Violence, Survivors Say
From Truthout: Sixty years after deinstitutionalization began, politicians and pundits across the political spectrum falsely declare it to be a failure — when in reality, the vision has yet to be funded or realized.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Two)
Peter Gøtzsche discusses misleading statements about depression pills and dosing.
What Is the Risk of Permanent Sexual Dysfunction from Antidepressants?
Males taking antidepressants were at 100 times the risk of erectile dysfunction compared with the healthy population and more than three times the risk even after controlling for other variables.
SSRIs, Lindsay Clancy, and Me
Sharing the similarities between Lindsay Clancy's homicidal episode and my own will hopefully help prevent rare SSRI-induced suicides and homicides, including mass shootings.
Poem for Pearl by Mother of Pearl
Dear Pearl
My beautiful blessed girl.
Your pain is my pain.
You will never know how much,
I love and adore you,
Until you have a daughter of...
Eating Disorders Among Teens More Severe Than Ever
From NBC News: Since the pandemic, people are experiencing eating disorders at younger ages and in more serious condition, with both mental and physical symptoms appearing more urgent.
Joanna Moncrieff: “I’m Not Convinced Antidepressants Have Any Use”
From The New Statesman: The 'controversial' NHS psychiatrist and professor discusses taking on the pharmaceutical firms, and how Covid made it “OK to cancel scientists."
The Systemic Harms of Psychiatry
My research into psychiatry began in late 2016 after being admitted to a mental "health" facility. There was nothing healthy about that experience!
Amphetamines Are Often Prescribed Along With Depression and Anxiety Drugs
From NBC News: Drugs like Ritalin are being given off-label to counteract the side effects of psychiatric prescriptions, a study suggests.
Reading Books Is Not Just a Pleasure: It Helps Our Minds to Heal
From Psyche: Through my own struggles and in teaching bibliotherapy to students, I know that books can help to heal minds and hearts.
Psychiatrogenesis (Whither Psychiatry or Reform)
Preying on the privatisation of distress comes the medical-industrial complex perverting the mental health landscape.
Federal Judge Finds Texas Use of Psychotropic Drugs on Foster Children ‘Appalling’
From KERA News: "These children are being repeatedly raped in [DFPS's] care," said Judge Janis Jack. "They’re being drugged in your care if they complain. If their behavior is not up to snuff, they’re getting psychotropic drugs. And that is not safe."
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part One)
On the drug industry’s influence in defining disorders and the lack of efficacy for depression pills.
Breaking Blind: Antipsychotic Drug Efficacy May Be Overestimated
Only 4 of 188 antipsychotic trials assessed blinding, and in all 4 cases, the blind was broken, potentially leading to an overestimation of the drug effect.
Campaign Against ECT Gains Traction in UK
"Across the pond," campaigners’ efforts against electroshock are gaining public notice. Can their approach work in the US?
Governments, Treatment Providers Don’t Want to Expose “Dark Heart” of Mental Health System
From The Walrus: "People are suffering," said psych survivor and counselor Tracy Myers. "The idea that sticking them in a cell and giving them drugs is a solution for this is insanity."
The State Power Triangle and My Spiritual Awakening
My will had been broken by work and psychiatry. How could I get my self-power back after so many years and so many brain-damaging meds?
Orlando Psychiatrist’s Practice Restricted After Sexual Assault Allegations
From Orlando Sentinel: Multiple women have accused Dr. Iftikhar Rasul, founder of Serene Behavioral Health, of groping them under the guise of a medical procedure.
White Paper Presents Case Against Forced Treatment
"I see the white paper as the culmination of my 40+ years of advocacy for people subjected to psychiatric incarceration and forced drugging."
She Redefined Trauma. Then Trauma Redefined Her.
From The New York Times: Dr. Judith Herman, who helped launch the field of trauma studies, has returned to publishing after a long, mysterious ordeal.
