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Therapists, Neutrality Is No Longer an Option — Politics Is Tearing Us Apart

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To my fellow therapists: stop playing neutral. Stop minimizing systemic trauma to keep your comfort intact.
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A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance

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With DSM-III, everything we knew about relationship dynamics was buried under the tidal wave of the pharmaceutical industrial complex.
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Inertia as Neuroceptive State Beyond the Pathologizing Lens 

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Reframing inertia as an adaptive, biologically based survival response offers a powerful alternative to traditional deficit-oriented models.

Veterans Take Their “War Cry For Change” to Capitol Hill

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Despite VHA’s $571 million suicide prevention budget, veterans are dying by suicide at alarmingly high rates. Advocates want answers and accountability.

A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment

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Therapist and coach Nelson Lee joins us on the podcast to discuss how he approaches helping clients while navigating the complexities of antidepressant withdrawal.
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Too Good to Be True: How TMS Damaged My Brain

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TMS not only has not improved my mental health, but also has robbed me of some of the most important things in life. There has been little to no research on or awareness around the negative side effects that TMS can inflict. This must change.
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The Pill That Stays After the Panic Ends

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We need to stop expecting pills to do the work that only truth, connection, and expression can do. Relief is not the same as recovery.
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Researchers: “We Do Not Suggest” Antipsychotics for Depression

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Augmenting with antipsychotics was no better at reducing suicide than adding antidepressants, but led to increased risk of death from other causes.
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Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

In contrast to psychiatry's biomedical model, for many psychologists, care begins with listening rather than labelling.

I Have a Night Life: When Doctors Become Fathers, and Fathers Become Patients

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Dad, it’s going to be okay, I say. Dad, you have delirium. He is losing his mind. And so am I. At night time.

May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

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Brooke Siem discusses her experiences of being medicated with antidepressants as a teenager, her withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects.

Mad in (S)pain

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A Q&A with the team members who edit and run Mad in (S)pain: "There must be a radical change in the way mental suffering is understood and cared for."
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Blindsided by Benzos: Had I Known

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Doctors are not disclosing the harrowing truth that discontinuing these medications can plunge patients into relentless mental and physical torment.
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Depression Caused by Kissing? Psychiatry Hits New Low with Clickbait Fear-Mongering

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Instead of being laughed at, this study is being promoted across outlets like Vice and The Colbert Report.

Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

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Depsychiatrization is a way of reclaiming the right to be understood through a nonpathologizing, rehumanized lens.

The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

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Ayurdhi Dhar interviews influential cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer on how metaphors, histories, and social structures contour our experiences of suffering and healing.

Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

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Joanna Moncrieff joins Robert Whitaker to talk about her latest book, titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. They discuss the serotonin story and the fact that there is no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency is a primary cause of depression.

Screen Time for Children Under Three: A Trigger for Virtual Autism?

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"A Stone Unturned" weaves together the research and stories of autism symptoms reversed by removing screens and adding more parent engagement.

Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

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Our two-year-long collaborative research project suggests that neuroimmune processes and related downstream mechanisms may play a role in PSSD.

The Mad in the World Network: A Global Voice for Change

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Mad in Ireland is the newest Mad in America affiliate. The network of affiliate sites is becoming a global voice for change.
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Trauma Survivors Speak Out Against Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

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Despite the majority of the individuals being sent to DBT having histories of severe childhood trauma, little about DBT treatment is “trauma-informed.”

“Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands”: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life...

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Paolo del Vecchio speaks with Leah Harris about his decades of public service at SAMHSA, what worries him most about mental health in today’s America, and where he sees hope in the recovery movement that he helped create.

The Betrayal of Professionals with Lived Experience

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I know that being “out” at work could help challenge stereotypes and reduce stigma but I hide. I have that luxury.

Mad in Finland

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The people who run Mad in Finland have experienced profound awakenings in the course of their lives, moments of awareness when they understood the failures of the psychiatric disease model and saw its harms.
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The Death of Joey Marino

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There needs to be more informed consent with these medications. If Joey was more aware of the potential side effects at the very beginning, I feel he would still be here today.