Intellectualization Results From Blocked Childhood Trauma | Daniel Mackler
Intellectualization is when people use their intellect, their logic, or their abstract reasoning to avoid having to deal with feelings.
Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatryâs Antidepressant Coffin
From CounterPunch: A recent reanalysis of previously undisclosed data reveals that STAR*D may go down in US medical history as one of its most harmful scandals.
A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression
From Psychology Today: An exhaustive new review debunks the âchemical imbalanceâ theory of depression, despite its persistence among physicians and the public.
Dr. Gabor Maté on the Truth About ADHD and Anxiety
From The Joe Rogan Experience: "The so-called experts say that ADHD is 'the most heritable mental illness there is,'" says renowned physician Gabor Maté. "But I say, it's neither an illness, nor is it heritable."
A History of Pernicious Anemia and Psychiatric Misdiagnosis
Katrina Burchell, chief executive officer of the Pernicious Anaemia Society, writes about the history of pernicious anemia, which produces symptoms that are often misdiagnosed...
The Shamanic View of ‘Mental Illness’: Birth of a Healer
From Uplift: "The Western culture has consistently ignored the birth of the healer. Consequently, there will be a tendency... to keep trying as many people as possible in an attempt to get somebody's attention."
Psychosis Is an Expression of Early Childhood Trauma | Daniel Mackler
From Daniel Mackler/Wild Truth: What makes psychosis confusing is that an eruption of infant trauma is expressing itself through the lens, the body, and the voice of someone who is now an adult.
A Psychiatrist Tries Antipsychotics: Seroquel
From Fugitive Psychiatrist: "I canât believe I have patients walking around on 800mg of this stuff. Thereâs no way in good conscience I could dose this BID (sic) unless a patient consented to 20 hours of sleep a day."
Joey Marino Dies; ‘ER’ Actor Had Developed Severe Tardive Dyskinesia
The actor had become disabled by the movement disorder after being prescribed Seroquel for anxiety.
The Power of Addiction and the Addiction to Power | Gabor Maté, MD
From TEDx Talks: Which addiction is greaterâan individual drug addiction, or the addiction to oil, to consumerism, to acquisition and power over others? Which causes the greater harm?
The Dangers of Curiosity in the Mental Health Field and the Family System
From Daniel Mackler: There are consequences to being curious and asking questions: real conclusions sometimes are not easy to bear.
Why a Sufi Approach to Healing ‘Mental Illness’ Is So Powerful
From Psyche: In Sufi shrines, rituals of attunement offer sufferers a path beyond the fear and isolation of their mental distress.
15 Signs Youâre Experiencing a Spiritual Emergency
From lonerwolf: There are two main types of spiritual emergency: mystical psychosis (hallucinations, mania, etc.) and the dark night of the soul (depression).
Why We’re Turning Psychiatric Labels Into Identities
From The New Yorker: So youâre on the spectrum, or youâve got borderline personality disorder, or youâre a sociopath: once youâre sure thatâs who you are, youâve got a personal stake in a very creaky diagnostic system.
Psych Patient Held Against Will Discharged After FOX31 News Inquiry
From FOX31 Denver KDVR: âI suspect theyâre extending his stay here so they can keep on using his insurance until it expires at the end of the month,â said the man's cousin, who contacted Fox 31.
Renowned Harvard Psychologist Says ADHD is Largely a Fraud
From Curious Mind Magazine: Jerome Kagan, one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, believes that the diagnosis of ADHD is a mere...
Lancet Editor Proclaims Half of All Scientific Studies are False
Collective Evolution discusses a recent commentary by the editor of The Lancet stating that "much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue."
An Inability to Visualize the Future (Let Alone a Positive One) Is a Hallmark...
From Psychology Today/Annie Wright, LMFT: It sounds unbelievable to someone with a trauma history that there are people who can think forward decades into the future, visualize a happy outcome for themselves and then work backward, taking steps that secure that future.
These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse.
From The Atlantic: It feels like we should be able to just sit teens down and tell them how to be happier. But that doesnât seem to work, and sometimes it even backfires.
Authenticity Can Heal Trauma | Gabor Maté, MD
From How To Academy: What happens if, for the sake of fitting in with the family or culture, we have to give up our connection to ourselves, our authenticity, for the sake of attachment?
Does âMental Illnessâ Exist? The Problem With Psychiatric Diagnosis
From IAI, the Institute of Art and Ideas: We have better ways forward than the current, largely unchallenged understandings of emotional distress which do not reflect reality â either in terms of the evidence, or in terms of peopleâs lives.
All the Lonely People: The Atomized Generation
From Erraticus: We must live each day in radical opposition to the world, keeping in mind that the economics of modern life are designed to atomize us.
I Was a Cult Member in the Cult of Psychiatry
From Mental Hellth: Today I believe OCD is a trauma response. But at the time I believed what the psychiatrist told me, that there was something structurally wrong with my brain.
Jordan Peterson in Russia Detoxing From Benzos After Near-Death Experience
From National Post: "The medication almost killed my dad. Heâs a psychologist and even he wasnât aware of how bad these medications are for some people," writes Mikhaila Peterson.
This is the Truth About Personality Disorders
From The Independent: Armchair diagnoses of personality disorders are a rising trend, from speculations that President Trump has narcissistic personality disorder to viral articles about discerning...
