Yearly Archives: 2024
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.
Mishiguene
From my grandmother I learned about mishiguene, which means crazy in that ironic and funny tone that Yiddish can have in some families.
Psychiatric Diagnoses Don’t Explain ‘Why’—Only ‘How’
From Psychology Today/Denise Winn: Finnish researchers found that the most influential health organizations "used language that inaccurately described depression as a causal explanation to depressive symptoms."
Microbes and Mental Illness
Monica Cassani, in her Beyond Meds blog, explores the "infection connection" between Lyme disease and tardive dyskinesia. She references a pubmed article on this...
To Young People of Color with Lived Experience: Pay it Forward; Become a Peer
A Peer Support Specialist tells her story and issues a callout to the BIPOC LatinX community, advocating for change.
Giving Caregivers a Platform: Leigh, Mother of Melissa
This is the story of a young woman who suffered through the agony of "kindling" and other drug-related harm, eventually dying by suicide. This is also the story of her mother’s path ahead.
The Co-Opting of the Peer Movement in Mental Health
Bureaucratic red tape often overshadows the quality of therapeutic engagement. Protocols often trump empathy, and paperwork overshadows personalized care.
Moonlight Mystery by Jason Aull
Lively do the shadows play
Within the darkened lonely way
Few dare tread along the deep
Where hatreds children play with sleep
Rage and laughter fill the day
As...
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.
When It Comes to Post-Surgical Opioid Tapering, You’re on Your Own!
I firmly believe that the people who give patients drugs have a responsibility to help people get off the drugs.
Neoliberalism and the Global Export of Psychiatry: Interview with Justin Karter
From Depth Work: A Holistic Mental Health Podcast: Neoliberal values have led to a great deal of institutional corruption and also have been exported beyond the Western world across the globe.
The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health...
Will was plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat hospitalizations and psych drugs.
Life on the Ledge
When images of myself climbing over the Golden Gate Bridge’s unmistakable red railing appear on the screen, questions shoot through my mind: Where did this footage come from? Why is it on TV?
Dearest Doctor by Brighid Aime
Dearest Doctor #2, don't dollop me in shame (or throw me a death sentence for that matter).
Don't tell me I need to be happy...
In Defense of the Long, Painful Grind of Therapy
From GQ: It is difficult to calculate, though easy to imagine, the uplift it could have on society if more people had a chance to work seriously on their mental wellbeing.
A Win for Science, with Profound Implications for Industry: FDA Rejects MDMA
Concerns, from functional unblinding to sexual assault in the clinical trials, led this week to a full repudiation of Lykos' MDMA-assisted therapy.
Violence Caused by Antidepressants Ignored Once Again by Psychiatrists
Based on RCTs, antidepressants double the risk of harms related to suicidality and violence. Why do psychiatrists ignore this data?
My Story of Surviving Psychiatry
This belief that there was something fundamentally wrong with me reinforced the damage done by repeated experiences of abuse, rejection, and discrimination.
I Am Carmen and I Have PSSD
No one is prepared to have the ability to feel attraction or fall in love taken away from them. I am incapable of what makes humans human: emotions, emotional bonding.
Algorithm Poem #1 by Steven T. Licardi
There’s got to be an algorithm
to determine
the precise number of physicians
you need to visit
before you become little more
than a heap of diagnoses
imprisoned
in manilla envelopes
stacked
to...
How to Know if You Have an Abusive Therapist
Your therapist is, first and foremost, a regular person. No matter how many degrees, years of training, or fancy certificates, they are still human.
Our Medical System Protects Wrongdoers and Punishes Whistleblowers: An Interview with Carl Elliott
MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Carl Elliott about scandals in psychiatry and the challenges faced by whistleblowers.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study Whistleblower Peter Buxtun Has Died at Age 86
From AP: Buxtun is revered as a hero to public health scholars and ethicists for his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research scandal in U.S. history.
The Ethics of Antipsychotic Dose Reduction and Patient Rights
New research highlights the ethical responsibilities of clinicians in supporting patients who choose to reduce or discontinue antipsychotic medication.
Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?
Promoters of "neurodiversity" replace existing forms of oppression with new "neuro" versions that still decontextualise our struggles.
