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The Whispered Rules of Belonging: How Counseling Education Tried to Silence Me

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I started to understand that I wasn’t just being trained in therapeutic skills. I was being trained to conform.
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The Cat Is Out of the Bag

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I’ve healed; not overnight and not without effort, but today I feel the vitality that I had before my psychiatrization began as a teen.
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A Mad Perspective on IFS Training

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I became concerned that the reason I was unable to hear from my parts was because I take antipsychotic medication.
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Protecting the False Narrative About Antidepressants

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We have a mental health crisis because the existing depression drug-focused approaches are not working.

Goodbye, Brian Wilson

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I propose to call any psychiatrist-patient bond “Landy syndrome” after psychiatrist Eugene Landy, the captor, abuser and oppressor of Brian Wilson.
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Madness Is a Human Phenomenon

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We can see how complicated it is to be human and how much human suffering (called psychopathology) is a complex and unique human phenomena.

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Floodgates by Miles Harrop

RESEARCH STUDIES

Emma Burris from Barnard College is seeking participants for a survey on the direct lived experience of former adolescent psychiatric inpatients, with the goal of improving mental healthcare in a way that’s sensitive to service users’ experiences. Find out more about the project and complete the survey here.

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Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend

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Those who would like to abolish psychiatry in order to replace it with their own coercive, authoritarian policies are not friends.

“I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal” A Conversation with Comedian...

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Dex Carrington, AKA Jørgen Kjønø, is a Norwegian-American stand-up comedian and actor. He joins us on the Mad In America podcast to talk about his experience with Lyrica and Zyprexa, including a five-and-a-half-year taper after 10 years on the drugs.

ChatGPT Weakens Your Ability to Think, MIT Study Finds

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“This cognitive offloading phenomenon raises concerns about the long-term implications for human intellectual development and autonomy,” the researchers write.

Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Conversation with Stijn Vanheule

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Vanheule urges clinicians to listen for the structure in psychotic thought. He offers clinical examples that reframe hallucinations as a form of creative response to unspeakable dilemmas.

Antipsychotics Do Not Provide a Clinically Meaningful Benefit Over the Short-Term: A Review of...

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70 years of RCTs fail to provide evidence that antipsychotics provide a clinically meaningful benefit for treating acute psychotic episodes.

Veterans Take Their “War Cry For Change” to Capitol Hill

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Despite VHA’s $571 million suicide prevention budget, veterans are dying by suicide at alarmingly high rates. Advocates want answers and accountability.

EDITOR'S PICK

Clarifying and useful: About Divergence

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Both divergent and everyone else may need help understanding human play and life, writes Mad in Norway's book reviews. She praises Jonas Vennike Ditlevsen (pictured) for providing insight into the unspoken patterns of social interaction and communication.

Trauma is always political: A comparative look at PTSD and cPTSD

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"Affective disorders are captured forms of discontent that must be externalized and addressed to their real cause: capital."

Meet Lara, My Anorexic Part

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This is what unprocessed emotions can look like. Often relating to trauma. But what is trauma? When someone hurts you? When society hurts you? When you feel “wrong,” excluded? When you are not taught how to love yourself (by being loved)? When you lack the tools to live with, because you never learned any life skills?

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