Addressing the Twofold Mental Health Crisis in New York City
The focus on crisis work displaces our attention and resources onto the symptomatic rather than the essential issues.
Childhood Trauma and Recent Stressors Rarely Addressed; ECT Given Instead
Mental health services force electroshock, rarely asking about causes like childhood adversities and recent stressors; few receive therapy.
Pills for Everyone: How Psychiatry Failed Me
The irony of antidepressants was that they were supposed to lift me out of depression, but they only dragged me down deeper.
We Must Stop the ADHD Prescribing Cascade, Not Perpetuate It
There is no scientific evidence base for routine use of multiple psychiatric drugs, particularly for children.
Learning to Soar: A Conversation With Artist Kev G Mor
Musician and artist Kev G Mor joins us to discuss his experience of psychosis, his daily support strategies, and the pros and cons of having a pit bull for emotional support.
Beyond Pleasure: A Developmental View of Addiction
Sometimes addiction has more to do with the ability to tolerate day-to-day life without the substance: self-regulation.
Antidepressant “Maintenance Treatment” Not Required: Slow Tapering with Support Works
Questions remain about best practices for discontinuation strategies, and the distinction between relapse and withdrawal was not defined.
New NEJM Perspective on Antidepressants and Pregnancy Misses the Mark
The NEJM opinion piece ignores basic science, common sense, and decades of research findings in making the case for SSRIs in pregnancy.
A Story of (Lack of) Self-Determination
Even geriatric patients who have limited cognitive abilities have the right to make their own health care decisions. Why should mental health patients have less?
Medication-Free Treatment in Norway Found Effective Over the Short Term
Those who received drug-tapering support did just as well or better than those receiving treatment as usual.
The APA Opposes Written Informed Consent for Veterans
The American Psychiatric Association and other prominent medical associations are lining up in opposition to proposed legislation that would require prescribers of psychiatric medication to obtain signed consent from veterans acknowledging the side effects and risks of psychiatric drugs.
How Mental Health Ideology Perpetuates a War on Emotions
Despite unprecedented access to therapy, medication, and novel treatments, mental health is deteriorating.
Psych Drugs Linked to Increased Risk of ALS
Psychiatric drugs linked to increased risk of the rare, incurable neurological disease that causes loss of motor function.
Connecticut’s Forced Electroshock Problem
Unpacking forced electroshock data obtained from the State of Connecticut Office of the Probate Court Administrator.
Faith in Oneself: How Adversity Made Me Anti-fragile
Post-traumatic growth doesn’t look like Superwoman. It’s simply the strength to endure.
I Declared Myself Jesus and Still Avoided the Psych Ward
I might still get a psychosis, but it was short-lived and I am not feeling down, or overdosed by psychiatric drugs.
The Damage Doesn’t End When the Drugs Do: Diana Rose on Psychiatry’s Long Shadow
Ayurdhi Dhar interviews survivor-researcher Diana Rose on her long-term adverse experiences from psychiatric drugs, survivor knowledge, and the humiliations built into the system.
We Need a Culture That Embraces Emotion Instead of Numbing It
Medicating depression and anxiety does nothing to address their root cause. SSRIs clear away the smoke without putting out the flame.
Easier to Refill Than Review: Antidepressant Prescribing in Primary Care
Researchers found that for many doctors, renewing antidepressant prescriptions feels safer and faster than helping people taper, and that most current interventions fail to address the pressures driving that choice.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): It’s Not Just the Memory Loss
A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities.
Women Likely to Be Retraumatised by ECT: Disturbing Findings from a New Survey
The widespread use of ECT on women needs to be understood from a trauma-informed perspective.
Living Protracted
Protracted withdrawal has taken so much from so many of us—years of our lives, our identities, our relationships, and the chance to simply feel safe in our own bodies and minds.
Where the Bullet Stayed
Writing became the space between pain and acceptance, the only place where both could coexist without one needing to kill the other.
Antidepressant Withdrawal: Finding an Astronomical Perspective – A Conversation with Safa Askeri
Maybe you have this interpretation that you're not going to recover and you have permanent damage, but it's not like that. I'm very hopeful.
Phenomenological Therapy: Centering Subjectivity
Phenomenological therapy can create space for authentic expression, sometimes for the first time in a client’s life.
