Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Five)
Discussing the studies that have compared the different psychosis drugs, as well as the harms of adding more psychosis drugs to the regimen.
The Misery of Being Misdiagnosed and Overmedicated
From an early age, relatives and doctors alike had told me I was severely mentally ill. Naturally, I believed them.
Chronic Stress and “Mental Illness”
Could it be possible that what we call āmental illnessā is a direct consequence of the changes that occur in the body as a result of trauma and chronic stress?
To Promote Mental Health, We Must Teach It
When we are quick to pathologize suffering, yet do not provide the fundamentals for healthy living, it is inhumanity of the highest order.
Lost Poetry: Psychiatry and Creativity
A poem can be destroyed when psychiatry treats a poet without reverence and honor for their creativity and their diversity of mind.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Four)
How cold-turkey withdrawal is mistaken for "relapse," and how the largest drug companies have paid billions in fraud settlements related to these drugs.
A Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court Could Surge the Psychiatric Labelling and Drugging...
If the Brackeen v. Halland case is successful, Native children are more likely to be placed with non-Native foster parents, and face a surge in psychiatric labeling and drugging.
Abused by Psychiatrists After a BPD Misdiagnosis
If you don't realize that you are autistic, your intellectual, sensory, social, and emotional differences are a mystery, even to you.
Answering Awais Aftab: When it Comes to Misleading the Public, Who is the Culprit?
The research literature from the WHO, NIMH, and others does not support a narrative of therapeutic progress, of psychiatric treatments that have ācontinuedā to improve over time.
Tanya FrankāZig-Zag Boy: My Familyās Struggles With Broken Mental Healthcare
Author Tanya Frank discusses her book 'Zig-Zag Boy A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood', which chronicles the experiences of her son Zach who experienced psychosis as a 19-year-old.
Prescribers Often Fail to Support Patients Discontinuing Antidepressants, Study Finds
Study reveals most patients are dissatisfied with prescribers' support when discontinuing antidepressants.
Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Revitalized World
We need to experience less comforting (though potentially highly rewarding) edges if we are to lead more fulfilling individual and collective lives.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Three)
Peter GĆøtzsche discusses the lack of evidence for benefit, and the evidence of harms, of psychosis drugs used for early intervention/first-episode psychosis.
A New York City Psychiatric Hospital Patient Said Staffers Illegally Restrained and Drugged Her;...
āNo one is watching these hospitals,ā Miranda warned. āNo one is listening. Our rights are being violated left and right. They can do whatever they want.ā
LGBTQIA+ Peer Respites: The Personal Is Political
Peer respites have great value. Affinity peer respitesāsuch as an LGBTQIA+ peer respiteāmay have even more.
Medically-Assisted Suicide Is Not a Win for Mental Health
Medically assisting someone in suiciding because theyāre poor or experiencing mental or emotional distress does not value life; it shows a blatant disregard for it.
Racial Justice and Lived Experience in Mental Health Advocacy: An Interview with Pata Suyemoto
MIA's Julia Lejeune interviews scholar, activist, and educator Pata Suyemoto about lived experience activism and racial justice in the mental health field.
Emotional Crisis Response: The Peer-Run Respite/Soteria House Approach Compared to the Conventional Approach
The peer respite/Soteria house model responds to emotional crisis with compassion and curiosity, rather than pathologizing.
Alarming Overprescription Patterns for Older Adults on Antidepressants
New study finds polypharmacy for 73% of older adults on antidepressants, with 56% at risk of harmful drug interactions.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Two)
Peter GĆøtzsche reviews the evidence that psychosis pills substantially increase mortality.
From Peer Support to Psychedelics: Psychiatryās Co-Optation & De-Radicalization
To strip psychedelic use down to its chemicals is to de-radicalize its communal and anti-authoritarian roots. Given psychiatryās history of treatment outcome failure and its ethically compromising financial relationships with Big Pharma, is it really a good idea to make psychiatry the societal authority in charge of psychedelic use?
One Pill To Disrupt: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal and the Marital Relationship
The suicidality that accompanies akathisia is the natural human impulse to escape being tortured. To save my wife, the woman I love, I was forced to argue for her continued torture.
Global Survey Leads to New Recommendations for Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs
Growing rates of long-term psychiatric drug prescriptions and documented issues with withdrawal demonstrate a need for safe deprescribing practices.
Mad Poetry Slam!
Poets with lived experience with mental distress are invited to perform their poetry live at MIA's Mad Poetry Slam on Zoom on May 7th, 12PM EST.
Uncovering Radical Psychiatry and Institutional Psychotherapy in Postwar France: An Interview with Camille Robcis
MIA's Micah Ingle interviews historian Camile Robcis about radical and liberatory forms of psychiatry and psychotherapy in postwar France.
