Crisis Hotlines, Like Canadaās New 988, Promise Confidentiality. So Why Do So Many Trace...
In commentary for the Globe and Mail, Rob Wipond, MIA contributor and author of Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions,...
Why a Sufi Approach to Healing ‘Mental Illness’ Is So Powerful
From Psyche: In Sufi shrines, rituals of attunement offer sufferers a path beyond the fear and isolation of their mental distress.
Why the DSM Is Mostly False | Nassir Ghaemi, MD
From Psychiatry Letter: The DSM is a social construction, based on āpragmatismā much more so than science, and as such should only be used administratively at present.
Understanding the Medical Industry to Protect Yourself
From The Real Truth About Health: Mary J. Ruwart, PhD, Robert Whitaker, and John Abramson, MD delve into institutional corruption, misinformation, the shift from prevention to treatment, and the urgent need for healthcare reform.
On Systemic Personal Boundary Violations, Low Self-Esteem, and Superiority Complex
From Gary Sharpe, PhD: Just like at the individual level, where folks with low self-esteem and superiority complex tend to seek each other out in toxic relationships, so too do the down-trodden people and the "elites" negatively feed off of each other at the group level.
Our Millions Year-Old Embodied Wisdom: Kinship and the Indigenous Worldview
From Kindred Media: The dominant worldview considers the cosmos fragmented, amoral and disenchanted and has led to the disruption of ecological systems, including child development, worldwide.
Podcast with Robert Whitaker on the Media
From Mad in Norway podcast: Birgitte Valla from Mad in Norway interviews Robert Whitaker on the media in psychiatrist. English discussion begins at 4...
Donāt Give Symptom-Free People Alzheimerās Drugs
From The Hastings Center: Itās not even clear that patients who actually have Alzheimerās disease should take these drugs, because they donāt improve symptoms.
What Can Psychedelic Science Teach About Psychosis?
From Aeon: In the 1960s, psychedelic research was driven underground. Now itās re-emerging ā with lessons for the study of psychosis.
Beyond Police and Psychiatrists: Chicagoās Plan to Transform Community Mental Health
From Jacobin: The Treatment Not Trauma approach seeks to build a bottom-up human infrastructure for community care that seeks āmental health for all by involving all.ā
Why Emotional Neglect and Depression Are Often Experienced Together
From Dr. Jonice Webb: Children who receive the message that their emotions are not important, not relevant, or not welcome in their childhood home learn to wall off their feelings ā both positive and negative.
After Antidepressants, a Loss of Sexuality
From The New York Times: Some patients are speaking out about severe sexual problems that have endured long after they stopped taking SSRIs, leaving them unable to enjoy sex or sustain romantic relationships.
Injured, Not Broken: Why Itās So Hard to Know You Have CPTSD
From Brickel & Associates, LLC: Because living in a triggered state of alarm is so familiar, many donāt realize trauma is the source of their feeling ānot okay.ā
These Teens Got Therapy. Then They Got Worse.
From The Atlantic: It feels like we should be able to just sit teens down and tell them how to be happier. But that doesnāt seem to work, and sometimes it even backfires.
A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence From the Pentagon
From The New York Times: Many U.S. troops who fired vast numbers of artillery rounds against the Islamic State developed mysterious, life-shattering mental and physical problems that have been all but ignored by the military.
Personal Boundaries and Their Violations
From Dr. Gary Sharpe/Out-Thinking Parkinson's: How invasions of physical, mental, emotional, and energetic space damage boundaries and lead to psychological and physical health conditions.
How Literature Teaches Compassion Over Condescension
From Psychology Today: Great works of literature remind us of the humanity of others by allowing us to imagine our way into their woundedness and hear their stories from within.
Most People Who’ve Used the 988 Crisis Line Say They Wouldn’t Turn to It...
From CNN: New research in JAMA Network Open found only a quarter of users said they'd be very likely turn to 988 in the future for themselves or a loved one.
The Superpowers of Sensitive People
From Greater Good Magazine: Sensitivity is the ability to "perceive, process, and respond deeply to oneās environment" and is exactly what our world desperately needs, argue the authors of a new book.
Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a āGold Mineā
From Mother Jones: Scandal-plagued health care giant Universal Health Services (UHS) profits handsomely off the failing American child welfare system.
Itās Time to Consign the āSelfish Geneā to the History Books | Jeremy Lent
From Salon: The trouble with the 'selfish gene' story is not just that it is scientifically flawed; it's also that it presents such an impoverished view of life's dazzling magnificence.
The Troubled-Teen Industry Offers Trauma, Not Therapy
From The New York Times: Hundreds of thousands of young Americans have endured harms or assaults in residential boot camps, wilderness therapy and Christian and therapeutic boarding schools.
Psychiatric Patients Restrained at Sky-High Rates at This L.A. Hospital
From the L.A. Times: L.A. Generalās Hawkins Mental Health Center has reported a restraint rate more than 50 times higher than the national average for inpatient psychiatric facilities.
People Not Professionals
From Aeon: Peer support provides a cathartic space for refuge that transcends the constraints of expert-delivered formal services in favor of a more equitable relationship.
In the Name of āModernization,ā Newsom Admin. Wants to Disappear Unhoused and Disabled People...
From Disability Visibility Project: The CARE Act is predicated on a big lie perpetrated by policymakers and marketed to the public: that houselessness is caused by āsevere and untreatedā mental illness and substance use.
