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Katrina Burchell, chief executive officer of the Pernicious Anaemia Society, writes about the history of pernicious anemia, which produces symptoms that are often misdiagnosed...

From Asylum Magazine: One of the first things that struck me when I entered mental health services was how little interest staff took in me describing my experiences or how I felt.

From Salon: The Columbus mindset is the same one that is driving our global civilization toward environmental (and social) catastrophe.

From Igor Chudov: An "exciting" seminar at the annual WEF meeting featured new technology that allows human brains to be scanned via wearable devices and the wearer's state of mind to be instantly interpreted via their brainwaves.

From PsychCentral/Darius Cikanavicius: Adults often see children's natural honesty as a nuisance, silliness, or even a problem, which leads to a society where dishonesty, fakeness, and inauthenticity are normal.

From Psychiatry at the Margins/Awais Aftab: "I don’t hear nearly enough psychiatrists speaking out and showing genuine understanding and concern about how harmful and unhelpful involuntary 'treatment' can be," says journalist Rob Wipond.

From Dr. Gary Sharpe: Human biochemistry is an example of a "complex system," where exceedingly small interference in the system can create massive and unforeseeable changes.

From Mental Hellth: Malcolm Harris, a Silicon Valley native and author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, discusses the mental health side of techno-capitalism.

From PsychAlive: "When children are faced with pain and anxiety in their developmental years, they develop defenses to cut off that pain," says psychologist and author Robert Firestone.

From The Homeless Romantic Podcast: Journalist Robert Whitaker discusses the need to bridge the gap between the public perception of mental health and the evidence-based reality.

From PsychAlive/Lisa Firestone, PhD: Implicit memories are unconscious, bodily memories that, when triggered in the present, do not seem like they are coming from the past.

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.

From Psychology Today/Justin Garson, PhD: We need to better confront the economic and political structures that are making us sick, says psychotherapist and author Dr. James Davies.

From Mental Hellth: When seemingly everyone has a DSM disorder, how do we find out what's actually going on?

From Truthout: There is a battle currently raging to convince the few states without involuntary outpatient commitment laws to give in.

Intellectualization is when people use their intellect, their logic, or their abstract reasoning to avoid having to deal with feelings.

The release from Yale Medical School doesn’t explain how the researchers will obtain consent from those with severe dementia to participate in their study.

From Psychiatry Is Driving Me Mad: People cannot heal within a system which refuses to acknowledge the harm it continues to cause.

From Alice-Miller.com: The connections between terrorism (violence, war, etc.) and childhood are still hardly recognized. It is time to take the facts seriously.

Watch a promotional video for ADisorder4Everyone's upcoming annual festival on Friday, September 22: "A collective roar of disapproval for a system that labels and medicates rather than listens and responds with compassion."

From The Washington Post: There is little awareness about the consequences of withdrawing from long-term use or high doses of these drugs and how to do it safely.

From Dr. Jonice Webb/Running on Empty: Many people who experience emptiness don’t even know they have it, much less what it is. They just know they feel "off"; like something just isn’t right with them.

From Psychology Today: If psychology is going to help those suffering from the symptoms of our cultural and spiritual malaise, it must reinvigorate the very resources our culture is ready to abandon.

From TIME: The issue isn’t only that demand is outpacing supply; it’s that the supply was never very good to begin with, leaning on therapies and medications that only skim the surface of a vast ocean of need.

From CPTSD Foundation: With any kind of repetitive, maladaptive behavior, it’s critical to get to the root cause – rather than offering a surface-level description – if treatment is to succeed.