Caroline Mazel-Carlton: Judaism Madness and Spirit
Voice hearers, mystics, visionaries, and mad people are found throughout the scriptures of Judaism. What does Jewish theology have to teach us about madness and psychiatric diagnosis?
Dr. Noel Hunter and Brett Francis: Diagnosis, Empowerment and Equality
This week we interview Dr. Noel Hunter and Brett Francis who have, in their different ways, experienced the psychiatric system and then gone on to challenge our response to mental ill health and the medical model.
Dede: How the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Helped Antidepressant and Benzodiazepine Withdrawal
We interview Dede who turned her withdrawal experiences into a force for good and now uses the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to assist those in withdrawal from antidepressants or benzodiazepines.
Break Down. Wake Up. podcast – 011 – Discovering Safety and Wisdom Within the...
In this episode, we explore how the tendency to attach our personal value to our businesses or professions can push us to overwork ourselves, the body's incredible creative ways to bring itself back into a state of balance and safety, and how trauma works itself both through the body and through our relationships.
Kevin P Miller: The Powerful Stories of Families Harmed By Psychiatric Medications
Kevin is a filmmaker, writer and journalist and his films have won numerous international Film and Television awards, he talks about his approach to film making and his thoughts on how we treat people that ask for help with their mental health.
Break Down. Wake Up. podcast – 004 – Embracing the Unknown…not Alone With Robert...
How a period of chaos and blackouts brought an international trainer to his own vulnerability and nudged him to stop doing everything on his own.
The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
Based on more than 10 years work in the peer support movement,The Icarus Project and Freedom Center’s 52-page guide is used internationally by individuals, families, professionals, and organizations to support reducing and coming off psychiatric drugs.
How Effective Are Therapy and Medication, and What Do They Treat?
In our science news podcast, Peter Simons covers a study that found both therapy and medication to have very limited effectiveness.
Frank Bures: Geography of Madness
Frank Bures, author of The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes, looks beyond travel literature’s colonial superiority and explores how meaning, perception, and belief shape what we think of as “real” in disease and health.
Meghann: Prescribed Antidepressants For OCD Aged 9 and Stopping Them 17 Years Later
Meghann describes starting antidepressant drugs for OCD at the age of 9, how she came to consider her withdrawal after 17 years and how she feels now, 2 years after finishing with the drugs.
David: A Sanguine View of Antidepressant Drugs and the Mental Healthcare System
David has taken antidepressant drugs on and off over the last few years and talks about his experiences of the mental healthcare system.
Break Down. Wake Up. podcast – 006 – Creating the Context for Self Healing...
How a surprising solution to surgical complications helped a business director process her grief and embrace a new calling to help others heal themselves.
Break Down. Wake Up. podcast – 001 – Practicing Inner Truth in a Polarized...
How experiencing both an abortion and motherhood inspired an approach to activism that transcends ideological divisions.
No Link Between Serotonin and Depression: What Does That Mean for Antidepressants?
Peter Simons covers in detail a new systematic review that debunks the widely popularized myth of low serotonin in depression, the “chemical imbalance theory.”
Nirali Shah: Meditation and Liberation
Nirali Shah, certified UCLA mindfulness facilitator and teacher at Spirit Rock, has spent thousands of hours meditating, as well as serving in one of the largest slum communities of Asia.
Leah Harris: Stop The Murphy Bill
Leah Harris, psychiatric abuse survivor and organizer for the Campaign for Real Change in Mental Health Policy, completed an investigative report on the Murphy Bill’s potential impact on people in crisis, how the gun manufacturer lobby is involved, and the role of Otsuka Pharmaceuticals.
Susie: Stopping An Antidepressant Cold Turkey After 2 Years
Susie tells us about her experiences of stopping her antidepressant drug cold turkey after 2 years of taking it and how her doctors failed to identify antidepressant withdrawal.
Olga Runciman: Compassionate Psychotherapy
Olga Runciman, voice hearer, psychiatric nurse in locked wards, and survivor of a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, brings her experience with recovery to her work as a psychotherapist in private practice.
Marion Brown: Psychiatric Drugs, Human Givens Therapy and Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Marion Brown is Psychotherapist who works with the Human Givens approach to supporting people in emotional or psychological distress, she has become increasingly concerned about the effects of psychotropic medications on patients.
Jyl Ion: Awakening as a Medium
Jyl Ion hears voices, but she refuses to view these non-ordinary experiences as a sign of mental illness. Instead Jyl came off 16 years of multiple toxic medications, talks to her ancestor spirits and has reclaimed access to unsanctioned knowledge.
Break Down. Wake Up. podcast – 003 – Speaking About the Unspoken with Boukje...
How a mysterious debilitating illness created a human foundation for breakthrough conversations in research and innovation.
Tina: Medication Changes and Antidepressant Withdrawal
Tina talks about her experience with depression, her use of antidepressant drugs and how a change in her medication led to her withdrawal problems.
Giovanna: Withdrawing from SSRI Antidepressants After 23 Years
We talk to Giovanna from Australia who was prescribed an antidepressant aged 17 and tried many times to withdraw over the next 23 years. She shares her experiences with us including the advice and support that she received and her hopes for the future.
Gary Sidley: Alternatives to Bio-Medical Psychiatry as Ways of Responding to Human Suffering
Dr. Gary Sidley worked within NHS mental health services for 33 years in a variety of nursing, psychological and managerial roles. In the 1980s...
Mary O’Hara: Economic Austerity and Mental Health
Guardian columnist Mary O’Hara, author of Austerity Bites, discusses the devastating impact of austerity economic policies in Europe, the scapegoating mindset behind social spending cuts, and the dangers of pursuing similar policies in the US and globally.
