Eating Disorders: Where Madness Meets Medicalization
While there is overwhelming focus on the psychological side of ED healthcare, there is still an enormous gap in the physical side of it.
The Healing Powers of Nature
For folks who struggle to fully trust, or attach, to a therapist, forming an attachment with nature can be revelatory.
Lemmings Don’t; Humans Do
Being depressed is not your fault, but part of buying into an insane society. You do not have a “chemical imbalance” but are responding to your world.
My PTSD Is Mine Only
Trauma doesn’t submit to categories. It doesn’t fit criteria. It is wild. It is intimate. It is always, always personal.
Facing the Truth About World Mental Health Day
Big Pharma has quietly sponsored World Mental Health Day campaigns, shaping global mental health policy.
DSM: Improve, Trash, Replace, or None of the Above?
Most clinicians are well aware that many diagnoses are vague, not specific, and don’t point to a treatment that works.
An Open Letter to Those I Love Whose Neurotypical Privilege Keeps Them from Seeing...
The next time you see someone who is unhoused, have some compassion.
“How Are You?” The Strangest Question to ask in a Psychiatric Hospital
Inside a psychiatric hospital, the social script doesn’t fit the situation. The location itself undermines the premise.
Peer Advocates Who Made Things Happen in Oregon
We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a vision for system change.
Counter Archiving “Mental Health Records”
Standing in front of the mirror, i wonder, “what outfit should i wear for scanning my psychiatric records at the local library?”
The Vanity Fair of Magic Potions
When someone is searching for medicine, there will always be someone else ready to sell them the “cure."
“I Can’t Remember a Single Day”: New Survey Shows Disastrous Memory Effects of ECT
114 people told us they lost vital memories like getting married, birthdays, and family events.
Green Party of California: Forced Treatment Must Be Abolished
In a public statement, the Green Party of California endorsed the Abolish Forced Psychiatry statement.
The Importance of Grief—in the Psychological Process and in Our Lives
In order to mature and to process our pain—things that are unavoidable in our lives—it is necessary to confront this grief.
Individualized Understandings of Mental Health Mislead Us
Diagnosis separates the person from their world and detaches their pain from their circumstances.
How Not to Diagnose Your Child
The reflections of a mental health professional on saving her own son from invalid and harmful labels.
Like a Refuge and Like a Prison
From Mad in Puerto Rico: Laura López-Aybar interviews Francisco about psychiatric hospitalization.
When Validation Becomes Avoidance: The Hidden Costs of Comfort in Modern Therapy
Each week, her therapist offered affirmations and reassurance. Her eating disorder remained comfortable and unchallenged.
Locura en Argentina
Editor Alan Robinson aims to provide readers with a magazine that represents them and the “mad cultures” found in Argentina.
Welcome to the Psychiatry Casino
Modern psychiatry is still, in many ways, closer to educated gambling than science. And patients deserve to know that.
A Place in the Forest: Mental Well-Being from a Wider Perspective
The whole social system as it is now is not designed with the purpose of well-being. Where has this gotten us?
Public Citizen, the FDA, and SSRI Safety
The safe and effective treatment for depression is psychotherapy and social support, not prescription drugs.
Beliefs that Create Madness
We know that it is not simply a chemical imbalance or a broken brain. We know how the context plays a large role.
Antidepressants in Pregnancy—Turning a Blind Eye, Again
You might think that telling women about the potential risks of taking antidepressants during pregnancy would be uncontroversial.
Sober Living: Why Less Clinical Sometimes Means More Recovery
Real independence is where most people stumble. Treatment can’t replicate what it’s like to live sober in the chaos of everyday life.
