“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.
Breaking the Cycle: How I Overcame Intergenerational Trauma and Became a Peer Advocate
How did that young Puerto Rican girl who very much disliked seeing a therapist when locked up in the juvenile system end up working in the mental health field as an adult?
Black Movement Leaders: Lost & Found
As some of us get caught up in lamenting the whiteness of our movement, we are actively losing the stories of Black leaders.
When Darkness Traps People, Consider The System
EDITORâS CORNER
If youâve been following the news over the last week or so, youâve likely read of Zoraya ter Beek, the young Dutch woman...
Meds vs. No Meds? My Search for Freedom of Mind
I have stayed on the same daily, 10 mg dosage of Abilify for the last few years. Although I am compliant, I am not satisfied: I do not feel whole. I do not feel authentic.
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.
August 20, 1985: The Day My Psychotic Episodes Ended
I didnât know that I had never fully experienced my emotional pain until I was thrown into an altered state. With âpsychosisâ I plowed through layers and layers of pain, alone in the night.
A Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court Could Surge the Psychiatric Labelling and Drugging...
If the Brackeen v. Halland case is successful, Native children are more likely to be placed with non-Native foster parents, and face a surge in psychiatric labeling and drugging.
Books Under Review: Fall 2022
Reviews of three recent books reflecting various perspectives on the mental health system.
Books Under Review: Spring 2022
Reviews of four recent books reflecting various perspectives on the mental health system.
What We Have Always Known but Psychiatry Forgot
When I came off my last medication, my psychiatrist said to me, âYou will get sick again.â Psychiatry has always been sure that I would never recover from bipolar disorder.
Screening for Bipolar: Have You Ever Been âUnusually Happy” for More than a Week?
A new questionnaire funded by AbbVie conflates antidepressant side effects with bipolar disorder and doesnât actually meet the criteria for being considered âscreening.â
Lead Exposure in Childhood Impacts Personality and Mental Health
A study of over 1.5 million people in Europe and the US links the development of less adaptive personalities with childhood lead exposure.
The Year Of Potentiality
I lost three years of my life to my first psychosis. I am living proof that your entire world can be smashed into a trillion pieces and you can recover and turn the broken pieces of glass into a kaleidoscope.
For Life: Opera on Psychiatry and Its Drugs
An interview with composer Dawn Sonntag and librettist Kermit Cole about their new opera about the harms that can come from psychiatric drugs.
Australia’s Billion-Dollar Question: Why Is Mental Health Not Improving With Better Access?
Amid growing mental health crisis, research raises questions about the mass rollout of brief psychotherapies in Australia.
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.
The Misery of Being Misdiagnosed and Overmedicated
From an early age, relatives and doctors alike had told me I was severely mentally ill. Naturally, I believed them.
Psychiatric Drugs Increase Dementia Risk Threefold After COVID in 65+ Population
Hospitalized COVID patients over 65 were three times as likely to receive a dementia diagnosis if they took psychiatric drugs.
