My Impressions of Psychiatry
People who are given the diagnosis of “schizophrenia” are the last social group not to be accepted by the public.
Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions
Our emotions in response to violence, lack of recognition, moral or sexual attack are defined as "mental illness" by psychiatry.
Dear Psychiatrist – I Survived
It took me over 20 years to believe in myself enough to walk away from psychiatry and psych drugs and regain my life. I not only survived, but I am also thriving.
Why I Stopped Taking Antidepressants—and Was It Worth It?
I had no idea what I was getting myself into or how difficult it would later be to break free from the cocktail of medications.
One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose...
Rose Cartwright is a screenwriter and the author of Pure, a hugely successful memoir which was then turned into a series for Channel Four....
How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network
Voice hearers have created a community. Often, for the first time, they feel safe to talk about their experiences and reach out for support.
Overprescribed and Overlooked: A Preventable Tragedy
My friend’s death was entirely preventable. We need more regulation of psychiatric medication in America.
The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”
Mental health professionals are selected and socialized to accept consensus reality and see a lack of adjustment to it as "mental illness."
Withdrawal Symptoms Common for Those who Stop Taking Antidepressants
A new study, published in Molecular Psychiatry, investigates the prevalence and typical characteristics of antidepressant withdrawal syndrome (AWS) through analyzing available research. Researchers found...
“What Matters to You?” – An Antidote to “What’s Wrong” and “What Happened”
Both ‘what’s wrong with you?’ and ‘what’s happened to you’ risk sidelining people’s own understandings and solutions.
How Creativity and Flexibility in Therapy Changed My Healing Journey
This is not meant to be an indictment of DBT, but an example of how important it is to make changes when a treatment doesn’t work.
So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides
They are biased towards drug use and cherry-pick the studies they quote even when they call their reviews systematic.
Why Gradual Reduction of Antipsychotics Could Be Safer for Service Users
A new commentary published in Current Opinion in Psychiatry presents the case for slow tapering of antipsychotics. According to authors Mark Horowitz and Joanna...
We Should Listen to Our Emotional Pain: An interview with Paul Andrews
Dr. Paul Andrews is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University. His research focuses...
A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care
Can people turn against the psychiatric priesthood and find the answers within themselves and their own communities?
Antidepressants Cause Cardiovascular Disease, Study Finds
A new study published in BMJ Mental Health finds that antidepressants are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). The authors employed Mendelian randomization, a method...
Greater Role for Experts by Experience in the Dialogue on Euthanasia in Cases of...
A letter from those experts by experience.
Medical Health Treatment vs. Mental Health Treatment
Every person seeking help should be treated with respect, informed of their options, and have a strong sense that their concerns are being addressed.
New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information
The guidelines explain what research on ADHD has found, strengths and limitations, and more accurate ways to express what it means.
Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP...
A letter that Ed Pigott and Jay Amsterdam sent to Ned Kalin, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
ADHD and “Weak Muscle Disorder”
"ADHD" doesn’t explain inattentiveness, just like "weak muscle disorder" doesn’t explain muscle weakness, just describes something improvable.
Study Finds No Increased Risks for Pregnant Women Who Discontinue SSRIs/SNRIs
A new article published in Pharmacy and Clinical Pharmacology finds pregnant women that chose to stop using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin...
Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans
I wrote this article because of continued inaction to inform veterans and all Americans of the risk profiles of the drugs they’re prescribed.
Brain Stew: An Interview with Myself
To this day not a single doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, or any other professional has ever even suggested to me that psych meds could potentially be a contributing factor to violence or homicide.
Gigantic Hoax on Danish National TV: “Patients with an ADHD Diagnosis Die Five Years...
Danish TV issues a correction after learning that this purported study doesn't exist.
