Sleepwalking My Life on Seroquel
When my son was 5, I ended up as a single mum, with ‘bipolar’ disorder, in a foreign country. I had to always work harder to prove that I was worthy.
Pharma CEO, Others Attempt Contradictory Critiques of Serotonin-Debunking Study
Moncrieff et al. respond to the contradictory and, in some cases, false concerns raised by these critics of their serotonin review.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Ten)
Peter Gøtzsche discusses the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, including in children, and the lack of evidence for any benefit from lithium.
The Psychiatrization of Consumers after Harm from Plastic and Cosmetic Procedures
When plastic surgery goes awry, doctors defend themselves by labeling the harmed patient with mental illness.
A Patient Reads His Psychiatrist
Dr. W.’s description of me, that I was agitated, insulting, uncooperative, did not match the emotions I was feeling. I felt distraught, hopeless, terrified, and desperate.
What Does it Mean to Be Borderpolar?
Psychiatrists believe people can have both bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, referred to as “borderpolar,” although this is not an official DSM diagnosis.
Q&A: How Can We See ADHD From Another Angle, and What Can We Do...
We all want to help our kids or our students, and sometimes finding the right key to unlock a child’s gifts is a matter of time, patience, trial, and error.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Nine)
Peter Gøtzsche on more harms caused by depression pills, including akathisia and its connection to homicide.
Psychiatry’s Denial of the Horrors of Tardive Dyskinesia
Tardive dyskinesia, a serious and horrible harm of psychiatric drugs, is often overlooked or deliberately ignored by psychiatrists.
Race and Abuse in Inpatient Settings: What Happens Behind Locked Doors
The problem of staff brutality towards patients on the psych wards disproportionately affects people of color and continues to happen every day behind locked doors.
Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at the Crossroads: Mary Boyle Interviews Jay Joseph
The psychiatric genetics field is historically based in eugenics and diverts our attention from evidence-backed causes of human suffering and dysfunction.
Splitting Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
Recognition of C-PTSD might be a double-edged sword, further marginalizing the very individuals it aimed to assist.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Eight)
Researchers have again and again demonstrated that depression pills double suicides both in children and adults.
Stigma: But What if I Don’t Want to Be Like Everyone Else?
Should I keep silent when I am well, or continue talking about it, knowing that I will probably deal with stigma for the rest of my life?
Only When It Poured
Disposable toothbrushes and sporks. Crayons instead of pens. Little pills in little paper cups. Someone would come. Someone would go. The days turned into nights and back again.
Embodying Emotional Taboos: Musicians and Mental Health
Mia Berrin is a songwriter, producer, and recording artist based out of Brooklyn, whose project, Pom Pom Squad, has garnered attention over the last...
NIMH’s It-girls: The Genain Quadruplets and the Whiteness of Psychiatry
The poster-children of psychiatric genetics, who endured abuse throughout their lives, were also the product of a racist culture.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Seven)
Peter Gøtzsche continues to detail the increase in suicide attempts and deaths found in studies of depression pills.
Cancer Risk Higher for Those on Clozapine
The antipsychotic clozapine, considered the “gold-standard” treatment for psychosis, was found to increase the risk of blood and lymph system cancers.
The APA’s Apology for Racism Omits Psychiatry’s Essential Bigotry
Psychiatry has acknowledged its history of racism, but can they ever acknowledge that the entire edifice is built on fundamental bigotry?
Children Are Vulnerable Cogs in the Psychiatric Machine
My guardian decided to seek out “professional” advice about how to diminish my “outbursts.” I was perceived as a problem that needed to be extinguished into a compliant state.
Changing Brains, Changing Minds: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and the Marital Relationship
As family support people for those caught in the mental health system, our job is to mitigate as much of the trauma as we can.
For Native People, the Past is Present: David Edward Walker on Oppressive Mental Health...
David Edward Walker is the author of Coyote’s Swing: A Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America, which was published in February...
Akathisia: Historical Perspective for Healing
I'm still tapering from medications, but I am better, which is how I know recovery is possible. Understanding the systems that were impacted by medications was an essential piece of the puzzle.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Six)
On the pharmaceutical industry's spinning of results of clinical trials to hide suicide attempts and deaths on depression pills.
