Are the Olympics Harder than Mental Health Recovery?
I competed in the 1996 Olympics in Judo before I got sucked into the mental health system. I got sucked in due to a...
Community Dialogues for Recovery and Wellness
The National Empowerment Center is promoting a new initiative called "Community Dialogues for Recovery and Wellness." These dialogues are designed to bring together people...
Peer Respite Centers and Medication Free Madness Sanctuaries: Why We Need Them Both Very...
Yana Jacobs and I both served at medication free madness sanctuaries. She at Soteria House and I at I-Ward. In this television interview, Yana...
One Script to Rule Them All
The marketing departments of pharmaceutical companies focus in on the ring-bearers just as the Eye of Sauron focused in on Gollum and later Frodo. Once the Eye fixes on a ring-bearer, it hypnotizes him into submission. If any demur, it directs its Black Riders (Medical Academics) to enforce compliance with its Will.
Kristina
The hospital rep brought Kristina into the hearing room, a windowless cubicle so crowded there was barely room for them to get to the...
Conquering Benign Paternalism
On Wednesday, July 18, the Heritage Foundation sponsored a forum entitled āHow to Bring Sanity to our Mental Health System.ā It featured Dr. E....
Itās Not Just the Drugs; Misinformation Used to Push Drugs Can Also Make Mental...
I was recently talking with a young man about his anxiety, which he experiences as extreme.Ā When I asked him what the anxiety was...
Free Blog Ideas
Right now I am working on the Connect Power site build to make an underground railroad to help people out of the mental health...
“Unfortunate experiments” in New Zealand and Minnesota
Carl Elliott writes on the discrepancy between New Zealand's response to a research scandal - which lead to a national debate and dramatic reforms - and the silence following clinical trial scandals in the U.S.
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Reignition
Silent hours unfolded as I devoured the words, a symphonic consciousness crescendoing as door after door of new awareness opened inside of me.Ā It...
Can Its New Board President Turn NAMI Around?
āThe word is out!ā That was Dr. Keris Myrickās reaction when she was elected earlier this month as the new president of NAMIās Board...
Billing the Victims of Unethical Medical Research
Imagine for a moment that you are seriously injured in a medical research study and require expensive medical care.Ā Ā Imagine further that the study...
A Child on the Shock Ward
"I was six years old, and so, finally, all the symptoms of my supposed mental illness ... especially, being born to a crazy mother, came to a head. And now I was officially a schizophrenic, proving that the disease was inherited."
A Collective Human Potential Movement
A Mental Health Recovery Movement is a good start, but frankly I am more interested in a movement that uses the language of ātransformation," a movement that recognizes the powerful of our collective potential to transform the world, that isnāt willing to compromise our visions of a better world, has the ability to capture many peopleās imaginations, and is capable of building coalitions across many boundaries.
Are There Gifts In and From Our Madness That Our Culture Needs to Not...
Do we bring gifts to our family and community that are born of suffering but infused with spirit? Has our madness been in vain,...
The Triumph of Bad Science
If we want to understand how our society may end up deluded about the merits of psychiatric medications, we can look at the research...
Site Updates and Posting Policy
Shortly after Mad In America launched at the beginning of the year I was invited to take over the siteās web development and to...
How Effective are Neuroleptic Drugs?
Robert Whitaker has raised questions about the problems with long term exposure to antipsychotic drugs but recent research raises questions about their efficacy in the short run.
Teenagers on SSRIs
Last week, the Wall Street Journal has anĀ article titled The Medication GenerationĀ by Katherine Sharpe which questioned the fact thatĀ a large number of teenagers are...
Letters From the Front Lines
Dear Bob:
Saw a young man recently, early 30s,Ā who wanted help withdrawing from benzodiazepines.
He had been on escalating doses of Xanax for two years.Ā The...
Madness Radio: Eleanor Longden on Voices and Trauma
Hearing distressing voices is highly correlated with traumatic experiences, and many people report that their first experience with distressing voices occurs after a trauma....
New York Attorney General’s Office Should Take a Bow For GlaxoSmithKline’s Record Breaking Fine
I was glad to see that the New York Times' reporters covering GlaxoSmithKline's $3 billion settlement tipped their hat to former New York Attorney...
Your Input Welcome For 2012 Alternatives Keynote Speech – SURVEY
I was invited to give a Keynote Address at the 2012 AlternativesĀ Conference in Portland Oregon, and I'm collecting your input on what I should...
New York State’s Assisted Out-Patient Treatment Program: Racial Myths & Other Stereotypes
New York Stateās out-patient commitment program, termed Assisted Out-Patient Treatment (AOT), was instituted in 1999 to protect the general public from treatment non-compliant and...
Entrepreneurship Is The Way Out of Our Mess
āYou never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.ā ā Richard...
