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. It...
Can Its New Board President Turn NAMI Around?
“The word is out!” That was Dr. Keris Myrick’s reaction when she was elected earlier this month as the new president of NAMI’s 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. 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 “transformation," a movement that recognizes the powerful of our collective potential to transform the world, that isn’t willing to compromise our visions of a better world, has the ability to capture many people’s 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 site’s 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 an article titled The Medication Generation by Katherine Sharpe which questioned the fact that a large number of teenagers are...
Letters From the Front Lines
Dear Bob:
Saw a young man recently, early 30s, who wanted help withdrawing from benzodiazepines.
He had been on escalating doses of Xanax for two years. 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 Alternatives 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 State’s 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
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Richard...
Tipping the Scales in Favor of Collaboration
In caring for patients with mental illness or distress as a naturopathic physician, I am either indirectly or directly working with the conventional (allopathic)...
Ghostwriting: Time for a Name Change
There is a fascinating process playing out in academic medicine right now. The general public is understandably concerned that much of the medical literature...
Listening to the Voices of Voice Hearers: World Hearing Voices Congress
It looks like a great event: The Hearing Voices Network 25 Years On: Learning from the PAST, Practicing in the PRESENT, Visioning the FUTURE. ...
Killed by the Huffington Post, Article Now on the Newsstands in Skeptic
Now in the current issue of Skeptic, I have an article called “Depression Treatment: What Works and How We Know” (article rights owned by...
Chemical Imbalances and Other Black Unicorns
“What do you think caused your problems?,” I asked.
“I have a chemical imbalance, a chemical imbalance, an imbalance in the brain that makes me ill.”
A Post-Racial Public Mental Health System: If Not Now, When?
In answer to the question posed in the title to this article, probably not for a long, long time. Or perhaps more accurately, when...
Prayer and Hope, Part II.
Since I accepted the Project Management gig where I work most of the time in the DFW Metroplex in Texas, I've gone through rough...
