From Mad in Canada: By Dr. Anders Sørensen, originally posted to his Substack, Crossing Zero, on November 11, 2025. Every now and then, I meet someone whose story captures exactly what’s wrong with modern psychiatry – and what’s possible beyond it. This is one of those stories. At fourteen, Lauren believed she was broken. She didn’t think she was “clinically depressed.” That word came later, when a doctor told her she was. But the feeling of defectiveness was already there. Something must be wrong with me, she thought. Nothing else could explain why she hurt so much, why she cut herself, or why she sometimes didn’t want to live.
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