What I Have Learned in Working With 300+ People in Their Journey of Tapering
Tapering is stepping into each individual’s complex world of biology, history, psyche, circumstance, and tolerance for discomfort.
Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community
If we want to advocate for a better mental health system, we have to integrate our own shame. And that is what happened to me at Mad Camp.
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?
Everything About Us Without Us
Between 1883-1955, there was little attention given to the value and contributions of those who were “patients” at the Oregon State Insane Asylum.
Sexual Sanism: Why Anti-Queer Rhetoric Is a Threat to the Mad, Too
Our response to this moment should be understanding our shared queer/Mad history and solidarity across lines of oppression.
The Ethics of Long-Term Psychiatric Drug Use and Why We Need a Better Way
Many of these so-called “treatment-resistant” conditions aren't underlying illnesses—they're caused by the drugs themselves.
Jo Watson Chats With Rob Wipond About His Work and His Book
Wipond exposes abuses in mental health systems, including forced treatment, psychiatric detentions, and surveillance.
Usorum: A Peer Led Collective Wisdom Project
I built Usorum around the belief that we can tap into our collective experience and begin building the generational knowledge to improve everyone’s quality of life.
Managing Nonconformity: Lessons from Quality
Psychiatry is akin to the outdated and unhelpful way that industry used to understand the assembly line.
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: Harm Reduction, Not Judgment
Good advocacy does not rely on fear or shame. No one can predict the future for any individual.
Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced
Researchers have consistently found increasing psychiatric services associated with higher suicide rates.
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...
RFK Jr. May Be Wrong on Many Medical Issues, But He’s Right About Antidepressants
Documented cases show a link between SSRIs and school violence, but pharma has suppressed the data that could prove this link.
Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised
Testimony submitted to the Connecticut state legislature in opposition to a bill expanding forced ECT.
Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides
Depression drugs don’t work, and they increase suicide.
Schizophrenia in Philosophy and Theology
From Socrates to Jesus to Nietzsche, all experienced divine Beatific Visions, just as I have.
Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine
Psychiatry, under the guise of science, tries to identify and manage those who deviate from industrial society's norms.
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...
Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness
The Situational Approach provides an alternative to the poor outcomes seen with the medicalisation of distress.
Kyrie Therapeutic Farm: Distress Understood as Part of the Human Condition
KTF aims to combine supportive community, holistic care, and meaningful opportunities for participating in a natural farm setting.
Beyond Techniques: The Common Factors That Drive Healing
Common factors, rather than the intricacies of any single modality, are the real engine of therapeutic transformation.
“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis
High levels of childhood adversity interact with violent crime, poverty, and lack of access to education.
Don’t Include Involuntary Commitment as a Treatment Tool in Seattle
As someone who has experienced the trauma of involuntary mental health treatment, I am deeply concerned.
The Ouija Board and the Skeptic
Skepticism, especially from those with lived experience, is necessary. It forces us to question whether our tools and methods truly help.
Guided Dreaming Can Transform Psychosocial Issues: 11 Case Studies
Dreaming problem-solves various waking concerns creatively through memory consolidation and emotional processing.
