Blogs
The Degrees on the Wall
The therapists who helped me most werenāt the ones who dazzled with their knowledge. They were the ones who made me feel less alone.
Mad in Puerto Rico
Since Puerto Rico is, in essence, a colony of the United States, colonialism has a heavy impact on mental health and the healthcare system.
The Whispered Rules of Belonging: How Counseling Education Tried to Silence Me
I started to understand that I wasnāt just being trained in therapeutic skills. I was being trained to conform.
The Cat Is Out of the Bag
Iāve healed; not overnight and not without effort, but today I feel the vitality that I had before my psychiatrization began as a teen.
A Mad Perspective on IFS Training
I became concerned that the reason I was unable to hear from my parts was because I take antipsychotic medication.
Protecting the False Narrative About Antidepressants
We have a mental health crisis because the existing depression drug-focused approaches are not working.
Goodbye, Brian Wilson
I propose to call any psychiatrist-patient bond āLandy syndromeā after psychiatrist Eugene Landy, the captor, abuser and oppressor of Brian Wilson.
Madness Is a Human Phenomenon
We can see how complicated it is to be human and how much human suffering (called psychopathology) is a complex and unique human phenomena.
Why Psychotherapy Should Busy Itself with Building Character Strengths, Not Reducing Symptoms
Clients want outcomes like self-understanding, self-agency, and social engagement from therapy.
Itās a No-Brainer: Living Proof We Are More Than Our Parts
Terms like āreward systems,ā āemotion centers,ā and ādecision circuitsā suggest precision. But these arenāt discoveriesātheyāre metaphors.
SoteriaāA Human Response to a Human Problem
The Soteria model has gained recognition in Israel, with more than 35 such "stabilizing houses" now operating, most publicly funded.
Two Years Later: My TMS Story, From Gaslighting to Finding My Voice
This didnāt feel like a temporary adjustment phase. It felt like my brain was glitching.
Conceptual Synaesthesia as Cognitive LiteracyĀ Ā Ā Ā
I donāt just feel things; I translate them. For those of us who experience it, it is not a novelty. It is a structure for thinking.
From Wounds to Labels to āMental Illnessā
We donāt need to understand someoneās entire past to exercise a little emotional humilityāto see behavior as adaptation, not brokenness.
Waking Up to Your Emotions 101: The Other Side of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Many people find themselves stuck: withdrawal symptoms might have passed, but emotionally, life feels overwhelming.
Are We Sober Yet?
I asked my psychiatrist if the Lexapro could be making it harder for me to stop drinking. He laughed and assured me that it was impossible.
Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing
Will psychedelics represent something different, or will we recreate the same problematic paradigms?
Where Is God When I Cut Myself? Soul Care and the Voices of Self-Injury Survivors
Care, as Iāve come to see it, is about sitting beside someone when the pain is too loud for words and not leaving.
The Pill That Stays After the Panic Ends
We need to stop expecting pills to do the work that only truth, connection, and expression can do. Relief is not the same as recovery.
Therapists, Neutrality Is No Longer an Option ā Politics Is Tearing Us Apart
To my fellow therapists: stop playing neutral. Stop minimizing systemic trauma to keep your comfort intact.
I Have a Night Life: When Doctors Become Fathers, and Fathers Become Patients
Dad, itās going to be okay, I say. Dad, you have delirium. He is losing his mind. And so am I. At night time.
Inertia as Neuroceptive State Beyond the Pathologizing LensĀ
Reframing inertia as an adaptive, biologically based survival response offers a powerful alternative to traditional deficit-oriented models.
A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance
With DSM-III, everything we knew about relationship dynamics was buried under the tidal wave of the pharmaceutical industrial complex.
Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology
In contrast to psychiatry's biomedical model, for many psychologists, care begins with listening rather than labelling.
Depression Caused by Kissing? Psychiatry Hits New Low with Clickbait Fear-Mongering
Instead of being laughed at, this study is being promoted across outlets like Vice and The Colbert Report.
