Monthly Archives: May 2025

By tackling social causes of distress along with personal support, we prevent suffering rather than just reacting to emergencies.

From Josef Witt-Doerring's YouTube Channel: "In this interview, David Carmichael shares his devastating experience with psychiatric medications, describing how Paxil triggered a drug-induced psychosis leading...

Alienating someone from their own meaning-making is a violent action, but that's what happens when professionals use unscientific, decontextualised diagnoses.

Those using antidepressants long-term were more likely to experience withdrawal and to have severe withdrawal symptoms.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy gets at the root cause of the emotional distress—a person’s emotional conditioning in childhood.

Our two-year-long collaborative research project suggests that neuroimmune processes and related downstream mechanisms may play a role in PSSD.

This year, I learned to name the hurricane— Borderline, they call it. A diagnosis sharp as a scalpel cutting through the fog of what’s wrong with me? For...

The use of psychiatry against women who have experienced male violence is a form of control. It silences women and maintains the status quo.

Antidepressants were more effective for depressed patients who were more “optimistic.” Still, only 30% responded to SSRIs.

On the podcast this week we are joined by Kermit Cole who shares his thoughts on how humor can help in creating a shared experience that is helpful to the healing process. Kermit, in his experiences of being with people in psychotic states, has seen humor as a moment when a connection can be made. In many ways, this project is bringing Kermit back full circle to his work as a film director, early in his professional career.

From The British Psychological Society: "As a forensic psychologist, I left the NHS when I realised I was complicit in a system that silenced...

From Meer: "In 1970, Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus at State University of New York, published his seminal work, The Manufacture of Madness....

Misconceptions among psychiatric leaders are at variance with the scientific evidence. They suffer from a serious, collective delusion.

Criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general threatens its existential legitimacy, and is not tolerated.

I’m not even taking Klonopin because it helps me. I’m taking Klonopin so I don’t go through withdrawal from Klonopin. That’s the trap.

From Politico: "ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul shored up her public safety agenda this week when state lawmakers agreed to loosen the...

There’s no cure beneath the disruption, just a chemical hit that alters perception or behavior.