Yearly Archives: 2025
Confessions of an Advertising Writer: What I Learned From Your Stories—And Mine
Apologies won’t undo the harm. What I’ve learned might. The current system will not change unless we organize.
Why I Kept Going Back: Breaking Free From Trauma Bonds
Breaking free from trauma bonds is a process of doubt, pain, and courage. It’s learning to trust yourself again after years of confusion.
Welcome to the Psychiatry Casino
Modern psychiatry is still, in many ways, closer to educated gambling than science. And patients deserve to know that.
Therapy in the Age of Self Management and Public Abandonment: A Conversation with Psychological...
Talia Weiner discusses how conservative politics and market logic reshape mental health care.
A Place in the Forest: Mental Well-Being from a Wider Perspective
The whole social system as it is now is not designed with the purpose of well-being. Where has this gotten us?
ADHD: Not a Diagnosis but a Warning Label
From Medscape: "The title of a recent article in The New York Times asks, “Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?” How would...
Wildflower Alliance in Revolt after Director Sera Davidow is Fired
From Wildflower Alliance Press Release
On Wednesday August 20th Wildflower Alliance co-founder and Director, Sera Davidow, was fired by the Western Mass Training Consortium (WMTC). This action...
The 110-Year “Schizophrenia Genetic Research” Train Wreck
The “genetics of schizophrenia” area of research is currently in disaster mode and awaits its endpoint.
On Love in America
After I nearly died during open-heart surgery, I realized that there is no room in this second life for anything but gratitude — and love.
NEW LAW Pushes Kids Onto Psychiatric Drugs
From Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring's YouTube channel: "Illinois just became the first state in the U.S. to roll out universal mental health screenings for students...
Public Citizen, the FDA, and SSRI Safety
The safe and effective treatment for depression is psychotherapy and social support, not prescription drugs.
OpenAI Says It’s Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
From Futurism: "For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about...
Teen Killed Himself After ‘Months of Encouragement from ChatGPT’, Lawsuit Claims
From The Guardian: "Adam, from California, killed himself in April after what his family’s lawyer called “months of encouragement from ChatGPT”. The teenager’s family...
Beliefs that Create Madness
We know that it is not simply a chemical imbalance or a broken brain. We know how the context plays a large role.
Antidepressants in Pregnancy—Turning a Blind Eye, Again
You might think that telling women about the potential risks of taking antidepressants during pregnancy would be uncontroversial.
Not Even the Unborn Are Safe from Psychiatric Harm
Medical organizations and the media dismiss the experts and the large body of research telling of fetal harm from exposure to SSRIs during pregnancy.
A Manner of Speaking
A cinematic prose poem that uses metaphor and symbol to capture the essence of experiences for which there are no words.
Sober Living: Why Less Clinical Sometimes Means More Recovery
Real independence is where most people stumble. Treatment can’t replicate what it’s like to live sober in the chaos of everyday life.
CANNOT CONTINUE’: NYC Law Would Allow Officials to Commit Drug Addicts
From Fox News: Investigative journalist Rob Wipond joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to discuss a New York City proposal to involuntarily commit drug addicts.
The Psychological Totalization of Experience: Objectification and Subjectivity
I must be a mechanistic, predictable unit, in order for a psychiatric label or a psychological variable to be implemented on me smoothly.
ECT: New Studies Detail Harms, Lack of Efficacy, Lack of Informed Consent
What people who have received ECT really think about what they were told, and about how ECT affected them.
Community, Ethics, and Healing Amidst the Great Unraveling
If our treatment is only aligned with the individualist reductionist model, we are unwittingly contributing to destruction.
Narrative Reclamation: Who’s Allowed to Tell Their Story?
Narratives have the power to lock us up—sometimes literally. But they also have the power to set us free.
How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A Conversation With Zenobia...
On the Mad in America podcast, Zenobia Morrill, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández and Justin Karter join us to explore the need to raise awareness of psychological approaches that challenge mainstream perspectives.
Reflections on My Mistrust for Other Mental Health Workers
I learned to hold my tongue around mental health workers. I dealt with their slurs by working harder and longer than them.
