Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 9: ADHD (Part One)
Peter Gøtzsche discusses the broadening of ADHD diagnostic criteria and the misleading and biased stimulant drug trials.
No Benefit for Adding Antidepressants to CBT in Severe Depression
For those with severe depression, inpatient CBT was effective but the adding antidepressants did not improve treatment outcomes.
Big Tech CEOs Meet with Psychiatry’s Leaders to Decide the Future of Mental Health
The paradox of techno-optimism at a huge conference on the future of mental health led by embattled tech CEOs alongside the most prominent figures of psychiatry.
Spoilation: What Becomes of the Forcibly Drugged?
I have been forcibly drugged for over forty years now. The dose of neuroleptics I am forced to take will probably kill me.
Driving Our Children into Suicide with Escitalopram and Other Happy Pills
The Lexapro study is marketing dressed up as science. It represents a flagrant abuse of ethics, deceiving readers at the cost of children's lives.
Cured: A Memoir—Sarah Fay on Giving Everyone the Chance to Heal
Author Sarah Fay joins us to discuss why "cured" is such a seldom-used word in psychiatry.
New Data Reveal the Full Extent of STAR*D Failure
The initial study, which has been used to promote antidepressants, employed outcome switching to hide poor results.
Everyone’s Afraid of an Angry Woman: Honoring Sinéad O’Connor
In her tragic passing, I choose to honor her by raising up these words she said, by hearing and believing them.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Fourteen)
Peter Gøtzsche covers depression pills in pregnancy, as well as psychotherapy and psycho-education.
Causality in Mental Disturbance: A Review of the Neuroscience
Psychiatry's medicalization of social and psychological suffering is not justified by the currently known biology.
The Key to the Psych Unit
I was toeing a very precarious line working in a psychiatric hospital. I knew how tenuous my perceived sanity was.
The Clinical Uses of Stoic Acceptance
Nothing matters more than cultivating the most loving bond possible with those we love. How can stoicism help?
How Does Untreated “Burnout” Manifest?
As I look back, I instinctively knew that I needed some type of "break" from my life. That came a few months early in a very different way than I was planning.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Thirteen)
Peter Gøtzsche discusses how network meta-analyses spin the data on antidepressants, especially when financed by pharma.
Lexapro for Children: Drug With No Meaningful Benefit and Increased Suicidality Gets FDA Approval
Response and remission rates were the same in the drug versus placebo groups, and Lexapro increased suicidality sixfold.
Giving Caregivers a Platform: Sam, Husband of Ka’ryn Marie
For many caregivers who assist their loved ones, the journey involves navigating the medical system and its many challenges. This time, the journey takes...
So Long, Psych Meds: Escaping the Medication Maze
There was a time when I could think of nothing else but pills and prescriptions, pain and panic. Psychiatry shrank my world.
ChatGPT Changes Its Mind: Maybe Antidepressants Do More Harm Than Good
This week, I wanted to see what ChatGPT would have to say about the long-term impact of antidepressants and about the STAR*D study.
Sharon Lambert and Naoise Ó Caoilte—Mental Health Podcasts: A Force for Good in a...
Researchers from University College Cork discuss their research on the benefits of listening to mental health related podcasts which indicates that podcasts improve mental health literacy, and reduce stigma.
“Borderline Personality Disorder” and Survivor Injustice
A common critique of the borderline personality disorder diagnosis is its complicity in oppressing abuse survivors.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Twelve)
Peter Gøtzsche discusses that depression pills increase mortality, and that psychiatry mistakes withdrawal effects for relapse.
Akathisia and Prescribed Harm as Traumatic Chemical Brain Injury (TCBI)
I stopped thinking of akathisia in terms of the disease model and instead began thinking of it as an injury. Akathisia is not the car crash; it is a result of the car crash.
Can ChatGPT Defend the Long-term Use of Antipsychotics?
ChatGPT has perfectly captured the pattern of psychiatry’s response to the research that tells of harm done.
‘We Have a Neck’: Psychiatrist James Greenblatt on The Links Between Body and Brain
James Greenblatt is an innovator and longtime authority in the fields of integrative medicine and functional psychiatry, focusing on nutrition and other natural modes...
Patients Express Anger at Doctors’ Ignorance About Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects
Antidepressant users share their frustrations towards a healthcare system that overprescribes but is ill-equipped to support with discontinuation and withdrawal symptoms.
