The Compliance Machine: How ADHD Habit-Tracking Apps Enforce the Disease Model
The habit-tracking market is flooded with apps following the same book. Set goals, monitor adherence, penalize deviation, reward consistency.
Why Mental Health Is Not the Same for Everyone
There is such a thing as mental health, but it is not the same for everyone. It is a subjective good that depends on a person’s own standards.
Psychiatric Patient Won a Forced Treatment Case Against the Norwegian State
No matter how strong the science and arguments against their clear malpractice, psychiatrists always seem to get away with being dishonest in court.
Psychiatric Diagnoses Cannot Attack People, But the Reification of Mental Health Issues Is Harmful
We should scrap the psychiatric diagnosis system and try to help patients the best we can without labelling and drugging them.
ChatGPT is Psychology’s Marlboro Man
Big Tobacco drafted the plays that Big Tech is enacting today: manipulating public opinion by partnering with the medical field.
Farewell to Suicide
The conditions that create suicide are the same as those required for toxic leadership, toxic environments, and dysfunctional policies.
There Is No Over- or Under-diagnosis of ADHD or Autism, Just a Confused Cacophony...
The public narrative on ADHD, autism, and neurodivergence is infused with scientism, meaning faith-based claims masquerading as scientific ones.
Are We Allowed to Criticise Mental Health Professionals?
When I started recording the worrying incidents I was witnessing as a student nurse, I was advised that my complaints would go nowhere and make it difficult for me to pass the course.
When the Government Becomes the Source of Trauma for Children
Decades of research on attachment and developmental trauma tells us what happens when we separate children from their caregivers under terrifying and uncertain conditions.
What 776 ECT Recipients Want You to Know
What stands out is the consistency between individuals’ experiences. Most of the costs were lasting, life-altering consequences.
What Do Psych Survivors Want Instead of Psychiatric Coercion?
One does not simply forget the dehumanization of coercion in psychiatric practices. It is traumatic. How is adding another distressing experience to an individual’s life therapeutic?
Winning Mad Liberation with a New Strategy: Solidarity
The mad movement must build connections with everyone challenging the roots of our cruel gangster capitalism imperialist system.
Groupthink in Mainstream and Critical Psychiatry
Critical psychiatry should continue to point out where mainstream psychiatry falls short, but mainstream psychiatry must correct itself.
Did the FDA Black Warning Cause Suicides? Reply to Soumerai and Lu
The idea that the FDA black box warning led to increased suicide is just as easily refuted by the data now as when it was first proposed.
Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2025
A roundup of Mad in America's most read blogs and personal stories of 2025 as chosen by our readers.
In Defense of Instability in Mental Health Recovery
Limiting someone’s dreams based on a professional opinion of what is possible for people with serious mental illnesses is misguided at best.
The Missing History of Children’s Mental Health in Oregon
It seems fitting that this history of mental health ends with Oregon’s attempt to grapple with the needs of children and families.
The Gentrification of Social Work: Why a “Political Mental Health” Must be Public
It's hypocrisy to speak of equity and advocacy yet remain silent about the changes within that privilege affluent communities/professionals.
Addressing the Twofold Mental Health Crisis in New York City
The focus on crisis work displaces our attention and resources onto the symptomatic rather than the essential issues.
Childhood Trauma and Recent Stressors Rarely Addressed; ECT Given Instead
Mental health services force electroshock, rarely asking about causes like childhood adversities and recent stressors; few receive therapy.
We Must Stop the ADHD Prescribing Cascade, Not Perpetuate It
There is no scientific evidence base for routine use of multiple psychiatric drugs, particularly for children.
Beyond Pleasure: A Developmental View of Addiction
Sometimes addiction has more to do with the ability to tolerate day-to-day life without the substance: self-regulation.
New NEJM Perspective on Antidepressants and Pregnancy Misses the Mark
The NEJM opinion piece ignores basic science, common sense, and decades of research findings in making the case for SSRIs in pregnancy.
Medication-Free Treatment in Norway Found Effective Over the Short Term
Those who received drug-tapering support did just as well or better than those receiving treatment as usual.
How Mental Health Ideology Perpetuates a War on Emotions
Despite unprecedented access to therapy, medication, and novel treatments, mental health is deteriorating.
