The Looming Addiction Crisis Fueled by AI
From Insider: AI and surveillance capitalism, which empower today's targeted ads, have joined forces with the deadly OxyContin playbook.
The Lost Patients of Washington’s Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital
From The Seattle Times: Today, there’s scant evidence the patients of Northern State Hospital ever existed. But as the 50-year anniversary of its closure approaches, family members and neighbors are fighting to recover them.
Consciousness Is an Act of Rebellion
From Daniel Mackler: To become Self-aware, to begin to have a conscious relationship with our internal Self, is to begin to break out of all the systems that are unconscious.
‘Serious Concerns’ Over Australia’s Landmark Psilocybin, MDMA Ruling
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation: What caused the typically conservative TGA to change its stance in a matter of months and become the first country in the world to reclassify psilocybin and MDMA as medicines?
Forced Psychiatry Is Expanding – At Society’s Peril
From The Globe and Mail: Research shows forced interventions are “often associated with negative outcomes” and experienced as “highly distressing and even traumatic.” So why are they on the rise?
A Son Died, His Parents Tried to Sue. How U.S. Courts Protect Big Pharma
From Reuters: Merck’s best-selling asthma medicine, Singulair, has been linked for years to suicides and psychiatric problems, often in children. But lawsuits over the drug are stymied by one of Corporate America’s most effective liability shields: the doctrine of federal preemption.
Antidepressants Can Cause ‘Chemical Castration’
From Maryanne Demasi Reports: Patients are not being warned of a persistent, irreversible type of genital mutilation that can be caused by SSRIs.
Popular ‘Benzo’ Drugs Linked to Suicide, Brain Damage — Even If You Stop Taking...
From The New York Post: Researchers have coined the term BIND, or benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction, to describe the long-lasting effects of benzo use.
UK Mental Health Review Must Address ‘Lack of Compassion’ Towards Patients, Watchdog Says
From The Independent: The national review was prompted by The Independent's exposé on "systemic abuse" of children within private mental health hospitals.
Grieving: The Key to Healing Trauma
From Daniel Mackler: As we grow, the traumas we experience become locked into our personalities. Grieving is the process of unlocking those frozen traumas, which is what gives us a chance to change.
Emotions Are Not Bad Behavior
From The Natural Child Project/Robin Grille: Time and time again, children are heavily reprimanded for committing the offence of crying or being angry.
MIA Writer, Toronto Psychiatrist Gordon Warme Dies at 90
Dr. Warme was the author of multiple books including Brain Evangelists: How Psychiatry Has Convinced Us to Believe in Its Far-Fetched Science and Dubious Treatments.
Lack of Insight: The Story of Psychiatry
From Human Givens: Clinical psychologist Professor John Read is interviewed about his work showing adverse life events explain most types of emotional distress, and how the medical model ignores it.
Antidepressants: From a ‘Hidden’ Withdrawal Scandal to the Chemical Imbalance Row
From The Herald Scotland: Activists who've tried to draw attention to a darker side of antidepressants have been shouted down, dismissed, or accused of "pill-shaming."
Georgetown University Conference Addresses “Invented Diseases & Overtreatment”
From CounterPunch: Volatile questions about pharmaceutical marketing tactics characterized the 9th conference of PharmedOut, a project created by a grant from Pfizer’s 2004 off-label neurontin settlement.
Examining the ‘D’ in CPTSD | Terry Baranski
From CPTSD Foundation: Developmental trauma doesn’t create disorders — it creates coping strategies, which are processes rather than discrete things.
The Government Has a Moral Duty to Help Those Harmed by Prescription Drugs
From The BMJ: An open letter by healthcare professionals decries the fact that there are still almost no NHS services to support patients harmed by taking pills as prescribed by their doctor.
An Introduction to the Trieste Model of Mental Health Care, and Why It Matters
From Vincenzo Passante/Psychiatry at the Margins: The Trieste approach is to suspend judgement on the exact nature of a person’s problem at the beginning of the relationship, and gradually help them make sense of their life within a dialectical context.
Antidepressants Permanently Destroyed My Sex Life
From The Telegraph: More than eight million people in England are on antidepressants, but with devastating side effects for some, are they being prescribed too freely?
Agony of Families Who Say Pills for Depression Led Their Children to Take Their...
From The Daily Mail: The knowledge that pills that are supposed to prevent suicidal feelings may actually be the cause of a loved one's suicide can only exacerbate survivors' pain.
‘The Antidepressant Story’ Airs Tonight on BBC1
From IIPDW: In response to the episode, a brief anonymous survey has been set up for those over 16 in the UK to capture experiences of stopping or trying to stop antidepressants.
Japan’s Radical Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis
From Aeon: The tōjisha-kenkyū movement makes space for people with mental health and other challenges to study their own experiences.
Dozens of Suicide Hotline Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook
From The Markup: Many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline promise anonymity but have been transmitting information on visitors through the Meta Pixel.
Podcast: The Rise in Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianships
From PsychCentral: Often well-meaning family members are trying to 'help' by having their loved one force-treated, but they end up traumatizing and permanently damaging them instead.
Mistreated Mental Health Patients Should Be Given Compensation, Public Apology, Report Finds
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The author of a report on the trauma caused by compulsory mental health treatment claims he was threatened by the Victorian government to make changes.
