Psychiatryâs Nightmarish 2022 & Its Hysterical Defense Against Criticism
Psychiatry's defenders are open to criticism of psychiatry as long as it stops short of acknowledging the increasingly well-documented reality that psychiatry lacks any scientific merit.
Paying Attention to ADHD Prescriptions in Your Community
A national study showed that ADHD drug abuse among U.S. high and middle school students has been rising for the past 20 years.
Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities: Interview with Philosopher Hanna Pickard
Hanna Pickard on the elusive middle ground between personal responsibility and systemic factors in our understandings of addiction.
Roll-out of 988 Threatens Anonymity of Crisis Hotlines
Even after their own advisory committee criticized call tracing, leaders of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline have been lobbying government for cutting-edge mass surveillance and tracking technology. Privacy experts are raising concerns.
Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
For decades, psychiatry committed medical fraud when it told the public that antidepressants fixed a chemical imbalance in the brain.
Psychotherapy Can Prevent Relapse When Discontinuing Antidepressants
âShort and simple psychological programs can prevent people from relapsing when they stop their antidepressants.â
Project LETS: Building Peer-Led Mental Health Alternatives on Campus
Founder and Executive Director Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu talks about the organization's work to support struggling students and end discrimination against them.
Adding Antipsychotics Worsens Outcomes in Psychotic Depression
Outcomes were worse for all, with young people on combination therapy twice as likely to experience rehospitalization or death by suicide than those on antidepressants alone.
A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norwayâs “Medication-Freeâ Hospital Survive?
We interview Ole Andreas Underland, Director of the HurdalsjĂžen Recovery Center in Norway which provides âmedication-freeâ care for those who want such treatment or who want to taper from their psychiatric drugs. Ole Andreas explains why the success of this pioneering approach might threaten its future.
Popular Obesity Drugs Monitored for Suicidal Thinking
Concerns rise about the adverse effects and longer-term harms of GLP-1 injections like Ozempic and Wegovy.
Psychiatric Detentions Rise 120% in First Year of 988
As contacts to the new 988 suicide hotline number have risen, so have call tracing and police interventions.
Words from My Heart to ‘My Heart’: What Might Have Helped My Late Friend?
More than two and a half years later, Iâm still processing my grief, still picturing our happiness and innocence as kids, and still acknowledging our struggles and pain.
Shedding the Limits of âSevere Mental Illnessâ Labels
When people seeking help are relegated to âthe Other,â how can they ever form a âtherapeutic allianceâ? Without collaboration, treatment devolves into coercion and oppression. We must change our language and relationships so new narratives can be born.
Toxic Marketing: The Business of Selling TMS
Ads pushing transcranial magnetic stimulation are everywhere. As someone harmed by the treatment, I believe they are misleading and unethical.
The Emperorâs New Clothes? The Psychiatrist as Expert in a Post-Modern World
Psychiatry has fallen to too many fads and abusive treatments over the decades to hold current treatments with any confidence.
Psychiatry Is the Cause, Not the Solution
I have found that trauma is frequently at the root of many eventual psychological and medical issues. Medications often only worsen the disconnection caused by trauma.
Pathologized Since Eve: Jessica Taylor on Women, Trauma, and “Sexy but Psycho”
Our guest today is Jessica Taylor, author of Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Womenâs Trauma Against Them, which was published in March...
“Don’t Worry, You’ll Be Fine”
I was prescribed a âbaby doseâ of diazepam for pain management. Over the following months, everything got progressively worse.
It’s All About Rightsâor Should We Say “Unequal Privileges”
On May 26, MindFreedom will partner with âI Love You, Lead Onâ to host the fifth in an educational series to create cross-disability understanding of common themes and initiatives.
A Tribute to Dr. Dean K. Brooks: The Fire Still Burns
Stories of a state hospital leader who challenged the mental health system by placing patients as the most important people: Dr. Dean K. Brooks of Oregon State Hospital.
Unmedicated Clarity: How I Reclaimed My Voice After Psychiatry Silenced It
My healing didnât begin with that pill. It began the moment I stopped handing over my truth for someone else to interpret.
Everything About Us Without Us
Between 1883-1955, there was little attention given to the value and contributions of those who were âpatientsâ at the Oregon State Insane Asylum.
Andrew ScullâDesperate Remedies: Psychiatryâs Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Sociologist and author Andrew Scull discusses the history of psychiatry's "Desperate Remedies," from lobotomy and the asylum to the failures of today's drugs and the fads of ketamine and deep brain stimulation.
Medicating Preschoolers for ADHD: How âEvidence-Basedâ Psychiatry Has Led to a Tragic End
The prescribing of stimulants to preschoolers diagnosed with ADHD is on the rise, which is said to be an "evidence-based" practice. A review of that "evidence base" reveals that claims that ADHD is characterized by genetic and brain abnormalities are belied by the data, and that the NIMH trial of methylphenidate in this age group told of long-term harm.
SSRIs, Lindsay Clancy, and Me
Sharing the similarities between Lindsay Clancy's homicidal episode and my own will hopefully help prevent rare SSRI-induced suicides and homicides, including mass shootings.
