Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s Tale
Recovery from PTSD and from all the drugs I was prescribed was a journey filled with ups and downs, setbacks, and breakthroughs.
What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?
One of the counselors at the crisis center asked me a simple but profound question; Are you ready to let go of your story?
The Power of Suggestion and the Problematic Insignificance of Significance
The power of suggestion: what my experience with hypnotism taught me about the placebo effect.
Part 2: Are We All Neurodivergent Nowadays?
The unacknowledged politics of neurodiversity: How neoliberalism and exploitation help explain the rise of neurodiversity rhetoric.
Dismissing the “Human Experience”: College Students Feel Unseen by the Medical Model of Mental...
In conversations with college students and recent graduates from across the country and around the world, they described feeling dismissed by views of mental health that narrow their experiences to individual medical problems.
Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations
Mood tracking can make someone realize: I’m starting to become manic, and this is why, and this is what I can do about it.
Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor
I propose Theodoric’s Principle of Medical Advancement: “Medicine has advanced when the old standard of care becomes a joke.”
Beyond Paternalism or Abandonment in Mental Health Care: An Interview with Neil Gong
Neil Gong exposes the false choice in mental health policy between tolerant containment for the poor and paternalistic surveillance for the rich.
Why Increased Psychological Freedom Should be the Main Goal of Psychotherapy
Insight into the childhood roots of recurring interpersonal problems and better expressive mastery of primal emotions are cornerstones of effective psychotherapy.
Part 1: Neurodiversity–What Exactly Does It Mean?
The fuzzy concept of neurodivergence has expanded to include almost every human experience, plus its opposite.
Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention
Ghaemi’s article is more of a rant than a scientific commentary.
2017: My Descent Into Mayhem
It’s time to seek out and rescue those pieces of me still trapped in that time and allow them to finally be at peace.
Who Is Afraid of the Abolition of Psychiatric Confinement?
Psychiatry doesn't care that you haven't committed a crime. The law gives them the authority to deprive you of your freedom for as long as they deem necessary.
The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz
Julia Hotz is a solutions-focused journalist based in New York City. She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive...
The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care
"Now look what you made me do!" Psychiatrists feel obligated to care for their patients, but also resentful of this obligation.
Iatrogenic Practices in Psychiatry: Kindling
Psychiatric practices can have very painful and destabilizing consequences, including "kindling" or neuronal sensitization.
Lessons from a Global Psychiatric Conference: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated
Has the global mental health movement truly reformed its tone-deaf universalist attitudes?
What I Wish I’d Asked Dr. Gabor Maté When I Had the Chance
Does my complex PTSD, depression and rage go back farther than I think? Back to the womb and my earliest days of life? Is that even possible?
What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis
We should explore a raft of interventions, as susceptibility to psychosis isn’t separable from a person’s general well-being.
Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider
Clinical psychologist Jessica Schleider is founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health, researching single-session interventions.
Who Is Being Targeted for Forced Medical Treatment in NYC? We Require Answers
I’m concerned for those forcibly drugged under Mayor Adams' policy. But also because New York City sets a national precedent.
Youth Antipsychotic Use Linked to Increased Risk of Death within Five Years
Those aged 18-24 had an increased risk of death within five years on doses above 100 mg chlorpromazine equivalents.
The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus
Many people view their social media feeds as reflections of their identities—and when posts center on a specific diagnosis, it can feel like the platform is diagnosing them.
Green Star Mother Demands Answers from VA Secretary
If the Veterans Administration is sincere in wanting to reduce veteran suicides, the first place to start is to collect information following these deaths to try to better understand the causes.
It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup
"Treatment resistance" is best explained not as a medical issue but as a way for psychiatry to resolve cognitive dissonance.
