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 arenât 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 âShould Be Reduced in Stagesâ 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, weâre 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 âBad Tripsâ
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 âChemical Restraintâ 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 Maté, 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 laterâŠI feel a good deal less optimisticâŠThe nightmare of total organizationâŠis 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.
Congressional Inquiry into Alzheimerâs Drug Faults Its Maker and FDA
From The New York Times: The agencyâs actions "raise serious concerns about FDAâs lapses in protocol," the report concluded. Nevertheless, the FDA is now evaluating two other Alzheimerâs drugs for approval early next year.
The New York Times Uncritically Repeats Discredited Antidepressant Claims
From CounterPunch/Bruce Levine, PhD: Once again, as with their reporting on WMDs in Iraq, the paper showed no skepticism about declarations from sources with powerful motives to sell a self-serving narrative that conflicts with the evidence.
A House on Shaky Ground: Eight Structural Flaws of the Western Worldview
From Tikkun/Jeremy Lent: Many of the ideas we hold sacrosanct in modern society are actually myths that emerged from erroneous assumptions made at different times and places in history.
Babies Feel Pain More Intensely Than Adults, Brain Imaging Study Finds
From Return to Now: Researchers found that babies are actually four times more sensitive to pain than adults, even though painful procedures are still routinely performed on them with no pain relief.
Assisted Dying Laws Are Devastating for Suicide Prevention, Warns New Research
From Scottish Daily Express: European countries and US states that have introduced systems to allow for euthanasia have reported an increase in the number of non-assisted suicides.
âRestraint and Seclusionâ Harms Kids. So Why Is It Used in Schools?
From The Washington Post: What if you went five days a week to a school that regularly locked you up or physically held you down? Most of us would walk in ready for a fight, not to learn.
I Was Hospitalized Against My Will. I Know Firsthand the Harm It Can Cause
From The Guardian: As Mayor Eric Adams recently announced a dramatic expansion of New York Cityâs involuntary hospitalization policy, I listened in disbelief, overcome with both rage and grief.
