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"Now look what you made me do!" Psychiatrists feel obligated to care for their patients, but also resentful of this obligation.

Psychiatric practices can have very painful and destabilizing consequences, including "kindling" or neuronal sensitization.

Has the global mental health movement truly reformed its tone-deaf universalist attitudes?

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?

We should explore a raft of interventions, as susceptibility to psychosis isn’t separable from a person’s general well-being.

Clinical psychologist Jessica Schleider is founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health, researching single-session interventions.

I’m concerned for those forcibly drugged under Mayor Adams' policy. But also because New York City sets a national precedent.

Those aged 18-24 had an increased risk of death within five years on doses above 100 mg chlorpromazine equivalents.

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.

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.

"Treatment resistance" is best explained not as a medical issue but as a way for psychiatry to resolve cognitive dissonance.

Sasha Warren founded Of Unsound Mind to trace the histories of psychiatry and its connection to policing and prisons.

Pharmaceuticals seem to overtake every facet of life, but it’s important to start thinking critically about what we are putting in our bodies.

After my VA mental health team prescribed Prozac, I began experiencing rapidly escalating behavioral changes. The drug was never considered as a potential cause.

Derek Blumke and Timothy Jensen: The Grunt Style Foundation leads a new phase in the movement to combat psychiatric drug harm.

In a way, the hospital had made me feel better. It had shown me a vision of hell that was going to become my future if I didn't take drastic action.

University students are expected to to ask questions, but medical students are expected to give "correct" answers.

The Five Hindrances perspective encourages exploring the underlying causes of suffering and developing strategies for coping and resilience.

Recordings of 988 callers’ voice, text, and chat conversations are being shared with researchers, AI developers, and corporations without consent.

It's hard, if not impossible, to impose on my son’s story any kind of literary “sense.” As a writer and a mother both, this has been my challenge. 

Leading psychiatrists appear unfazed that their theories and treatments are repeatedly proven to be scientifically invalid and discarded.

Sterilized under Nazi law, Dorothea Buck fought throughout her life for psychiatric reform.

Harms are “largely overlooked by psychiatry despite widespread usage,” according to the researchers.

New data reveals that four times as many callers to 988 as previously publicly claimed are getting visited by police or emergency medical services.

My beloved mother was mistreated, cheated, abused mentally, and alienated from her family by her conservator and the courts.