Mad in America

From Highly Sensitive Refuge: Highly sensitive people have important perspectives to contribute to society. They must protect their process, especially when the world doesn’t.

From GatherFor/Medium: Whereas mainstream American narratives focus on the individual, the Blackfoot way of life offers an alternative resulting in a community that leaves no one behind.

From The New Yorker: Hospice has evolved from a constellation of charities, mostly reliant on volunteers, into a twenty-two-billion-dollar juggernaut funded by taxpayers and rife with exploitation.

From The Breach: Once a vibrant grassroots social movement, patient groups have become a powerful cluster of corporate-influenced organizations, with leaders whose values, beliefs and ties align more closely with the private sector than the public interest. 

From The New York Times: "The common misunderstanding persists that we cannot provide involuntary 'assistance' unless the person is violent," said Mayor Eric Adams. "This myth must be put to rest."

From Jeremy Lent: There is an overriding dynamic driving all the imbalances in our lives. Acknowledging it is the first step toward achieving re-harmonization within our individual and collective consciousness.

From Underground Psychiatry: "The insurance companies, the patients, and the doctors are addicted to the tablets. So we are all stuck in the system. And only if you put the health of the patient as the purpose of your treatment, then you can change it.” ~ Pharmacist Paul Harder

From Re-Threading Madness Radio: LeBlanc was awarded the New Brunswick Human Rights Award for his work as director of the Groupe de Support Emotionnel Inc. and as publisher and editor of Our Voice/Notre Voix.

From Jeremy Lent/Patterns of Meaning: Your mind is being controlled by distant strangers who don’t have your best interests at heart. If that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, brace yourself and read on.

From Lown Institute: What could be a fruitful conversation has been largely co-opted by pharmaceutical companies as a method for trying to get drugs with unclear benefits approved.

In an essay published in Research Ethics, Will Hall writes about contributions by "non-professionals" and...

From Psyche: Instead of helping to maintain my self-confidence during a veritable earthquake in my life, my need for a crutch in pill form radically undermined my faith in myself.

From AMI-Quebec and the Montreal Gazette: The way drugs shape long-term outcomes must be understood against our natural capacity to recover, said author Robert Whitaker ahead of his public lecture in Montreal.

From Jeremy Lent/Resilience: Human supremacy is a specific ideology with origins in the Western worldview that desacralized nature, turning it into a resource to exploit.

From Psychology Today: Mother nature designed kids to play, explore, and daydream without adult intervention because that is how kids develop the skills, confidence, and attitudes necessary for mental health and overall wellbeing.

From The Washington Post: Suicidal students are pressured to withdraw from Yale, then have to apply to get back into the university.

From CounterPunch: The public has routinely heard proclamations that depression is a neurobiological phenomenon or brain disease, but recent major research reviews refute these claims.

From alice-miller.com: How can people love themselves if the message that they were not worth loving was drummed into them at an early stage?

From Surviving Antidepressants: Join the live video chat on Friday, November 11 to learn about Siem's new book, the first memoir on antidepressant withdrawal to hit the mass-market.

From Committable: The Committable podcast interviews Aneri Pattani, Rob Wipond, and Yana Calou about 988, the new national suicide and crisis line.

From The Seattle Times: After a first officer raised some safety concerns, Delta management removed her from service, alleging mental health issues. She fought a legal battle that resulted Friday in a scathing ruling against the company.

From Business Wire: "We are providing a science-based and holistic way to help people safely stop antidepressants while minimizing withdrawal symptoms and risk of relapsing," said Outro co-founder Mark Horowitz.

From NSUN: We need to have a conversation about power, the systematic silencing of survivor testimony, and the weaponisation of mental ill-health, trauma, and distress to discredit and further coerce people.

From Daniel Mackler: It is common for therapy clients to be healthier than their therapists, for two reasons: clients are often humble whereas therapists often are not; and clients are often actively grappling with their feelings whereas many therapists are stuck in dissociation from theirs.

From AP News: There is no talk at Selah Carefarm of ending the pain of loss, just of building the emotional muscle to handle it.