MAD CAMP July 20-24, 2023 | Seeking Volunteers & Donations | Tickets by March...
From Mad Camp/Madness Radio: Will Hall, Dina Tyler, Monica Cassani and the Mad Camp crew invite planet Earthās survivors/evaders/transformers of psychiatry to a 5-day summer camp in Northern California.
Gaslighting: What Makes a Person Vulnerable?
From Psychology Today/Peg Streep: Merriam-Webster has named āgaslightingā the 2022 word of the year. What leaves a person open to this form of psychological abuse?
Childhood: The Unexplored Source of Knowledge | Alice Miller, PhD
From The Natural Child Project: There are many areas where concern with early childhood can represent a liberation from age-old blind alleys.
Is Psychiatry Working? | BBC Sounds
From BBC Sounds: Some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats people in trouble.
Informed Consent for Antidepressants
From The Guardian Letters: Dr. John Read argues people must be told of the high likelihood of emotional blunting and withdrawal effects when they are first offered antidepressants.
When I Was 15, a Psychiatric Hospital Nearly Ruined My Life. This Advice Saved...
From The Washington Post: By the time I left the hospital, I was the scattered wreckage of a teenager, and would spend much of my subsequent adult life avoiding people.
How to Fix the Mental Health Workforce? Peer Counselors Are an Underutilized Resource
From The Seattle Times: Peers build close connections by relating to people in a way clinicians donāt, and they can get trained faster and start working, helping close the gaps in a mental health landscape desperate for more staff.
Poisonous Pedagogy and Our Culture of Violence
From Shadowproof: Most psychiatric models fail mightily in that they reject childhood treatment as the key to later mental health status and interpersonal relationships, which has allowed parental and institutional cruelty to flourish for far too long.
MindFreedom Issues Shield Alert for Comedian Jim Flannery
https://mindfreedom.org/front-page/shield-alert-for-mfi-member-jim-flannery-being-held-involuntarily-in-middlesex-hospital-and-forcibly-drugged/
The Collective Denial of Evil and Its Impact on Psychiatric Treatment
From Narcissist Abuse Support/Sheri Heller, LCSW: Why arenāt victims more often believed, and why are facilitators of an empirical science denying the psychological reality of evil?
Feds to Investigate Nursing Home Abuse of ‘Antipsychotic’ Drugs
From AP: Evidence has mounted over decades that some facilities wrongly 'diagnose' residents with 'schizophrenia' or administer 'antipsychotic' drugs to sedate them, despite dangerous side effects that could include death.
Antidepressants āShould Be Reduced in Stagesā to Avoid Withdrawal Symptoms
From The Guardian: A new draft quality standard from the UK's medical watchdog NICE includes specific guidance for GPs to help adults come off antidepressant medication permanently.
Yale Changes Mental Health Policies for Students in Crisis
From The Washington Post: The changes, which come after former and current students sued the university, will allow students to keep their health insurance and take leaves of absence instead of being pushed to withdraw.
Broken Kids, Not Guns | Michael Mendizza
From Touch the Future: To blame guns, TV, video games, Twinkies, the bully next door, bad genes, and all the rest for the pervasive violence, self-mutilation, self-medication, and suicide is a misguided defense.
A Conversation With Ann Bracken, Author of ‘Crash: A Memoir of Overmedication and Recovery’
From Medicating Normal: Poet-activist Ann Bracken's new book explores mother-daughter depression, chronic pain experiences, and struggling in a mechanistic and reductionist health-care system.
The Dividing Line Between Crazy and Not Crazy | Daniel Mackler
From Wild Truth: Being in touch with reality means seeing things clearly, without the veils or filters known as defenses. Thus, weāre all crazy to some degree, to the degree that we have defenses.
Why Breakdowns Are Sometimes Necessary
From Sustainable Human: Everyone thinks that the way to get to love, happiness and joy is by avoiding the forest of dark emotions inside us. But we actually need to go through it in order to get to the Garden of Eden.
Be Worried About Boys, Especially Baby Boys | Darcia Narvaez, PhD
From ACES Too High/Kindred Media: A review of research by Dr. Allan Schore shows that early life experience influences boys significantly more than girls, leading them to need more care instead of less.
A Theological Reckoning With āBad Tripsā
From Harvard Divinity Bulletin: The therapeutic instrumentalization of transcendence ignores volumes of wisdom from traditions that emphasize the dangers of nonordinary experience.
Concern as Proportion of Children in England on Antipsychotics Doubles
From The Guardian: Although the overall percentage who were prescribed antipsychotics was relatively small, experts consider it a worrying trend since these powerful drugs carry serious safety risks.
A Neuroscientist Views Deaths of Despair and Depression
Dr. Sterling's grand rounds lecture looks at why U.S. deaths of despair are the highest in the developed world, what our species' needs are for a healthy lifecycle, and what happens when those needs are frustrated.
Epilepsy Drugs as āChemical Restraintā on Rise in Nursing Homes
From The Washington Post: An inspector general report indicates nursing home physicians have traded one controversial practice for another: sedating dementia patients with anticonvulsant drugs rather than antipsychotics.
The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor MatƩ, MD
From Sustainable Human: Western medicine has a number of hidden ideological beliefs that hinder our understanding and resolution of illnesses, whether physical or mental.
Do We Live in a Brave New World? Aldous Huxley’s Warning to the World
From Academy of Ideas: "In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time," wrote Huxley. "Twenty-seven years laterā¦I feel a good deal less optimisticā¦The nightmare of total organizationā¦is now awaiting us, just around the next corner."
Misleading Ads Fueled Rapid Growth of Online Mental Health Companies
From The Wall Street Journal: In the two years since the government expanded the scope of allowable telehealth services, companies have been operating largely outside of the advertising rules that govern drugmakers.
