My Impressions of Psychiatry
People who are given the diagnosis of âschizophreniaâ are the last social group not to be accepted by the public.Â
School Phone Bans and âMental Healthâ
Banning school phones is not an answer to improving mental health.
Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions
Our emotions in response to violence, lack of recognition, moral or sexual attack are defined as "mental illness" by psychiatry.
Why I Stopped Taking Antidepressantsâand Was It Worth It?
I had no idea what I was getting myself into or how difficult it would later be to break free from the cocktail of medications.
How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network
Voice hearers have created a community. Often, for the first time, they feel safe to talk about their experiences and reach out for support.Â
The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about âConsensus Reality”
Mental health professionals are selected and socialized to accept consensus reality and see a lack of adjustment to it as "mental illness."
“What Matters to You?” â An Antidote to “What’s Wrong” and “What Happened”
Both âwhatâs wrong with you?â and âwhatâs happened to youâ risk sidelining peopleâs own understandings and solutions.
So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides
They are biased towards drug use and cherry-pick the studies they quote even when they call their reviews systematic.
A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care
Can people turn against the psychiatric priesthood and find the answers within themselves and their own communities?
Greater Role for Experts by Experience in the Dialogue on Euthanasia in Cases of...
A letter from those experts by experience.
New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information
The guidelines explain what research on ADHD has found, strengths and limitations, and more accurate ways to express what it means.
Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP...
A letter that Ed Pigott and Jay Amsterdam sent to Ned Kalin, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
ADHD and âWeak Muscle Disorderâ
"ADHD" doesnât explain inattentiveness, just like "weak muscle disorder" doesnât explain muscle weakness, just describes something improvable.
Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans
I wrote this article because of continued inaction to inform veterans and all Americans of the risk profiles of the drugs theyâre prescribed.
Gigantic Hoax on Danish National TV: âPatients with an ADHD Diagnosis Die Five Years...
Danish TV issues a correction after learning that this purported study doesn't exist.
Preventing Suicide Among Older Adults
In an ideal world, the goal would be to have interconnected, trauma-informed, âhelpingâ communities to prevent suicide in older adults.
SAFE: Survivors And Families EmpoweredâAn Update
We hope to combat the increasing reliance on force, too often used with the justification âfor your own good.â
What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?
To recover from protracted withdrawal, I did everything I could to survive the process and help my body and mind heal.
Is Mental Health a Choiceâand Can Understanding Help Us Heal?
Thereâs a pattern and a purpose to what the mind does. You canât change it, you have to understand it.
Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?
Left-wing critique has always challenged powerful vested interests that prefer not to be disturbed.
Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressantsâ Withdrawal Effects
A response to a seriously flawed review.
Assessing Community Mental Health Programs in India: Insights from Task-Shifting in Kerala
The MISA news team provides insight into community mental health initiatives in India.
How to Be a Happy, Successful Incurable Schizophrenic
If you are a young schizophrenic, I encourage you to accept the challenge of leading a happy, productive, meaningful life.
The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies
Twin studies and heritability estimates are used in support of biological determinism and in defense of the global inequality status quo.
STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud
STAR*Dâs results are too bitter a pill for psychiatric leaders to swallow, so they have chosen to become a rogue medical specialty.
