Waking Up to Your Emotions 101: The Other Side of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal
Many people find themselves stuck: withdrawal symptoms might have passed, but emotionally, life feels overwhelming.
Soteria—A Human Response to a Human Problem
The Soteria model has gained recognition in Israel, with more than 35 such "stabilizing houses" now operating, most publicly funded.
From Wounds to Labels to “Mental Illness”
We don’t need to understand someone’s entire past to exercise a little emotional humility—to see behavior as adaptation, not brokenness.
Therapists, Neutrality Is No Longer an Option — Politics Is Tearing Us Apart
To my fellow therapists: stop playing neutral. Stop minimizing systemic trauma to keep your comfort intact.
Mad in (S)pain
A Q&A with the team members who edit and run Mad in (S)pain: "There must be a radical change in the way mental suffering is understood and cared for."
Mad in Finland
The people who run Mad in Finland have experienced profound awakenings in the course of their lives, moments of awareness when they understood the failures of the psychiatric disease model and saw its harms.
Too Good to Be True: How TMS Damaged My Brain
TMS not only has not improved my mental health, but also has robbed me of some of the most important things in life. There has been little to no research on or awareness around the negative side effects that TMS can inflict. This must change.
A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance
With DSM-III, everything we knew about relationship dynamics was buried under the tidal wave of the pharmaceutical industrial complex.
Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing
Will psychedelics represent something different, or will we recreate the same problematic paradigms?
Mad in Ireland
Although Jennifer Hough’s older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. “To...
The Mad in the World Network: A Global Voice for Change
Mad in Ireland is the newest Mad in America affiliate. The network of affiliate sites is becoming a global voice for change.
Mad In South Asia
While conducting research in rural Northern India, Ayurdhi Dhar spoke to a woman whose mother had vivid visual hallucinations of Indian wedding processions. When...
Where Is God When I Cut Myself? Soul Care and the Voices of Self-Injury...
Care, as I’ve come to see it, is about sitting beside someone when the pain is too loud for words and not leaving.
Inertia as Neuroceptive State Beyond the Pathologizing Lens
Reframing inertia as an adaptive, biologically based survival response offers a powerful alternative to traditional deficit-oriented models.
How and Why Neurotypicals Misunderstand and Mistreat Autistic People
Commonly used autism interventions, such as ABA, have been found to be both ineffective and abusive, inflicting trauma on those subjected to them.
Depression: Biological or Psychological?
Scientific evidence tells us that depression is psychological and should be treated by behavior therapy, not by antidepressant drugs.
Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death
Overtreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. Why have we allowed this drug pandemic to continue?
Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology
In contrast to psychiatry's biomedical model, for many psychologists, care begins with listening rather than labelling.
Depression Caused by Kissing? Psychiatry Hits New Low with Clickbait Fear-Mongering
Instead of being laughed at, this study is being promoted across outlets like Vice and The Colbert Report.
From Public Service to Private Practice: The Collapse of the Social Work Profession
Can we resist turning to private practices masked in social justice rhetoric as a substitute for genuine movement building and advocacy?
As a Psychologist, I’ve Seen Many Children Misdiagnosed as Autistic—It’s a Clinical Catastrophe
The ASD diagnosis glosses over the many developmental specifics that might underlie a child’s challenges related to social communication.
David Foster Wallace: Suicide and the Death of Agency
Today is the 10th anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s suicide. While it’s not fair to build an entire theory on an incredibly complicated issue like suicide around one person, Wallace’s death should challenge the common narratives around suicide — that “mental illness” causes it and that “we can’t ever know why people do it.” Both of these are self-serving platitudes that are simply not true.
Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?
Misconceptions among psychiatric leaders are at variance with the scientific evidence. They suffer from a serious, collective delusion.
Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society
South Korea ranks among the highest in the world for suicide, and its people are turning to psychiatric drugs in record numbers.
Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work
Depsychiatrization is a way of reclaiming the right to be understood through a nonpathologizing, rehumanized lens.
