Inmate Shuffle: How California Bounces Around Its ‘Mentally Ill’ Prisoners
From CalMatters: One in three California prisoners has 'a diagnosed mental illness.' For many of them, prison is not a place to heal. It is a place to disappear.
Illness as Mutiny of the Soul | Charles Eisenstein
From Charles Eisenstein: What if there is something so fundamentally wrong with the world, the lives, and the way of being offered us, that withdrawal is the only sane response?
To Prevent Mass Shootings, Stop Relying on the Myth of Motive; Start Doing Forensic...
From PACEs Connection: The right question is: What happened to this person? What happened to a beautiful baby boy to turn him into an 18-year-old killer spouting racist screed?
Simplifying Childhood May Protect Against Mental Health Issues
From Raised Good: Suffering with a "cumulative stress reaction" as a result of the snowballing effect of "too much," children develop their own coping strategies to feel safe.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or: Play by the Rules, Hysteric!
From Surviving Psychiatry: The idea that the "DBT clinician" is the "master" who holds the authority to assess individuals’ emotions, experiences, and coping strategies, and to "fix" them is, as a premise, utterly disempowering.
ADHD Meds Don’t Lead to Higher Grades or More Learning, FIU Study Finds
From the Miami Herald: The research contradicts a longstanding belief among doctors, teachers, parents and patients that ADHD students perform better in class while on prescription amphetamines and stimulants.
He Spurred a Revolution in Psychiatry. Then He ‘Disappeared.’
From The New York Times: In 1972, Dr. John Fryer risked his career to tell his colleagues that gay people were not mentally ill. His act sent ripples through the legal, medical and justice systems.
Man Who Killed Son Tours Canada With “Know Your Drugs” Campaign
From the Windsor Star: “You’ve got to question your doctor,” said David Carmichael, of Toronto. “You’ve got to question, research, and report suspected adverse drug reactions.”
How Emotional Neglect Can Leave You Feeling Deeply Flawed | Jonice Webb, PhD
From Psychology Today: Being raised in an emotionally neglectful family sets you up to have an estranged relationship with your own emotions, which sets you apart from others and yourself.
Are Violent Teens Suffering ‘the Rage of the Unparented’? | Gabor Maté, MD
From Dr. Gabor Maté: We need to look at the lives of today’s children and adolescents and, above all, at what’s missing in their lives.
Opposition Mounts Against Newsom’s Plan for Court-Ordered ‘Treatment’ of Unhoused People
From the Los Angeles Times: Advocates say the California governor's proposed "CARE Court" "flies in the face of any evidence-based approach to ending homelessness."
Why Forced Addiction Treatment Fails | Maia Szalavitz
From The New York Times: Since the data shows that the best treatment is compassionate and inviting, coercion should be the last resort, not the first.
How to Build a Culture of Good Health | Gabor Maté, MD
From Yes! Magazine: The medical profession is traumaphobic, and the results for patient care—whether physical or psychiatric—are devastating.
Psychiatry and Abuse | A Letter to Alice Miller
From Alice Miller: Child Abuse and Mistreatment: Psychiatry is a crucial factor in eliminating victims’ voices, abusing them "for their own good," and "protecting" society from the outcry of the abused.
‘Mental Illness’ Is Not in Your Head
From Boston Review: Two recent books by historians explore the crisis in biological psychiatry, tracing the factors that led psychiatrists to attempt to pin the reality of "mental illness" on the brain.
Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome and Its Management
From BJGP Life: The IIPDW has produced a 1-hour training video to help GPs implement the newly-published NICE guidelines on how to safely stop antidepressants.
NHS Data: 41% Rise in Antidepressant Prescribing to Children Aged 5-12 Since 2015
From The Pharmaceutical Journal: The majority were males, and peaks in antidepressant prescribing to young people in England coincided with periods of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sonic Doom: The Effects of Noise Pollution on Physical and Mental Health
From The Guardian: We live in a world where peace and quiet is increasingly a luxury item and noise and stress are baseline conditions for the disadvantaged.
Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully | Jean Liedloff
From ContinuumConcept.org: In her book The Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff argued that the psychosocial ills of modern society result from our misconception of human nature as something inherently bad or problematic.
“My Doctor Is Lacking Insight”: Alternative Experiences of Insight in Mental Health
From Psychiatry Is Driving Me Mad: "Insight" in mental health is usually thought of in relation to people with mental health difficulties; rarely do we consider the insight (or lack thereof) of the professionals themselves.
The Bear in the Classroom – Trauma-Informed Teacher
From Ransom for Israel: Here’s the reality; if you are a teacher or you work in any capacity with children, then you are working with children with Complex Trauma.
Who Are the New ‘Patient Influencers’ on Social Media?
From HealthDay: 'Patient influencers' are being seen as an increasingly popular direct-to-consumer marketing tool by pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers.
Wireless Mind, Gullible Mind | Chellis Glendinning
From CounterPunch: Somehow a population with DDT, Love Canal, the Dalkon Shield Intrauterine Device, asbestos, Three Mile Island, and Agent Orange under its belt is mustering up the same old psychological defenses it used to not learn from those debacles.
Top Mental Health and Prayer Apps Fail Spectacularly at Privacy, Security
From Mozilla: Mental health and prayer apps are worse than any other product category at protecting people’s privacy and security, according to Mozilla researchers.
CO: State Hid Findings of ‘Life-Threatening’ Errors at Mind Springs Health
From Steamboat Pilot & Today: Colorado state officials kept secret an investigation into a pattern of potentially fatal prescription errors at one of its regional mental health centers.
