Yearly Archives: 2024
Scores of Papers by Top NIH Neuroscientist Eliezer Masliah Fall Under Suspicion
From Science: The questionable data implicates many studies that underpin the development and testing of experimental Alzheimer's and Parkinson's drugs.
Why Does a Parent Medicate a Child? An Interview with My Mother
When Brooke Siem was 15 years old, her father died. Her mother, Dee Barbash, sought help for her daughter that led to a prescription for a psychiatric drug. In this interview, they look back on that fateful decision.
Preventing Suicide Among Older Adults
In an ideal world, the goal would be to have interconnected, trauma-informed, “helping” communities to prevent suicide in older adults.
Study Finds Over 25% of Antidepressant Prescriptions Given to High-Risk, Long-Term Users
A new article published in BMC Medicine finds that antidepressant use in two Scottish regions increased 27% between 2012 and 2019. The current work,...
Capitalism Is Driven by Mental Illness
Psychedelics are useful not for the hallucinations they provide, but for the hallucinations they dispel.
SAFE: Survivors And Families Empowered—An Update
We hope to combat the increasing reliance on force, too often used with the justification “for your own good.”
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.
Khepri by Michael Hudson
O give me in a shrink the god who rolled Ra
across the heavenly sky each day from dawn,
making everything seem so fresh and young
beneath...
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.
From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice
In this interview, Daniel Gaztambide discusses how decolonial perspectives can transform psychoanalytic practice.
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.
Antidepressants Linked to Lasting Sexual Dysfunction, Study Finds
New research highlights the challenges in quantifying the prevalence of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), a condition that continues to affect patients long after they stop taking antidepressants.
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.
Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead
From The Tyee: An evidence-based approach clearly shows that the reliance on detention, force and coercion over the past two decades has not led to better outcomes.
See Your Ancestors Smile by J.H.
As we lie together
Worlds apart
Seek shelter
With me.
Weave your
Stolen freedom
Into a new dream;
Between skipped
Heartbeats,
Show me
A world burning
Only with
Your fire.
My sweet sublimity,
Take hold of this
Outstretched hand...
Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects
A response to a seriously flawed review.
Assessing Community Mental Health Programs in India: Insights from Task-Shifting in Kerala
The MISA news team provides insight into community mental health initiatives in India.
How to Be a Happy, Successful Incurable Schizophrenic
If you are a young schizophrenic, I encourage you to accept the challenge of leading a happy, productive, meaningful life.
ADHD Drugs Linked to Psychosis and Mania
In one analysis, those on a high dose of prescription amphetamines were more than 13 times more likely to develop psychosis/mania.
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.
On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace
I didn't know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn't know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself.
And You by Douglas Westberg
And You
a glosa
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into...
The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies
Twin studies and heritability estimates are used in support of biological determinism and in defense of the global inequality status quo.
STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud
STAR*D’s results are too bitter a pill for psychiatric leaders to swallow, so they have chosen to become a rogue medical specialty.
