Giving Caregivers a Platform: Leigh, Mother of Melissa
This is the story of a young woman who suffered through the agony of "kindling" and other drug-related harm, eventually dying by suicide. This is also the story of her motherās path ahead.
The Co-Opting of the Peer Movement in Mental Health
Bureaucratic red tape often overshadows the quality of therapeutic engagement. Protocols often trump empathy, and paperwork overshadows personalized care.
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz
Tapering should be tailored and adjusted to the patient, slowed and more hyperbolic in people who have severe and longstanding reactions.
When It Comes to Post-Surgical Opioid Tapering, Youāre on Your Own!
I firmly believe that the people who give patients drugs have a responsibility to help people get off the drugs.
The Birth of The āJust Stop Itā Movement: A Familyās Journey Through Mental Health...
Will was plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat hospitalizations and psych drugs.
Life on the Ledge
When images of myself climbing over the Golden Gate Bridgeās unmistakable red railing appear on the screen, questions shoot through my mind: Where did this footage come from? Why is it on TV?
A Win for Science, with Profound Implications for Industry: FDA Rejects MDMA
Concerns, from functional unblinding to sexual assault in the clinical trials, led this week to a full repudiation of Lykos' MDMA-assisted therapy.
Violence Caused by Antidepressants Ignored Once Again by Psychiatrists
Based on RCTs, antidepressants double the risk of harms related to suicidality and violence. Why do psychiatrists ignore this data?
My Story of Surviving Psychiatry
This belief that there was something fundamentally wrong with me reinforced the damage done by repeated experiences of abuse, rejection, and discrimination.
I Am Carmen and I Have PSSD
No one is prepared to have the ability to feel attraction or fall in love taken away from them. I am incapable of what makes humans human: emotions, emotional bonding.
How to Know if You Have an Abusive Therapist
Your therapist is, first and foremost, a regular person. No matter how many degrees, years of training, or fancy certificates, they are still human.
Our Medical System Protects Wrongdoers and Punishes Whistleblowers: An Interview with Carl Elliott
MIAās Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Carl Elliott about scandals in psychiatry and the challenges faced by whistleblowers.
The Ethics of Antipsychotic Dose Reduction and Patient Rights
New research highlights the ethical responsibilities of clinicians in supporting patients who choose to reduce or discontinue antipsychotic medication.
Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?
Promoters of "neurodiversity" replace existing forms of oppression with new "neuro" versions that still decontextualise our struggles.
The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry
Normal reactions transformed into illnesses, emotions stripped of meaning, & people deprived of their autonomous coping skills and supports.
Escaping the Hell of Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome
I painfully and gradually learned to function with my dysfunctions. Over time, I noticed genuine improvement.
We Are Amidst the Age of Behavioral Alchemy
How the Reality Approximation Engine allows us to rethink psychology, mental health care, and perhaps even society.
Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands
With a vision to transcend the cycle of incarceration into a restorative model of justice, rituals are integrated alongside acupuncture.
Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry Ā
The medicalisation of ordinary human existence continues apace, thinly disguised as embracing the authentic self.
The Dying of the Light: Norway’s “Medication-Free” Services for Psychotic Patients Are Fading Away
Despite their successful outcomes, Norwegian non-coercive and medication-free programs are being threatened with closure.
Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself ā A Copās 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 SignificanceĀ
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.
