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How Chatbots Deepen the Mental Health Crisis

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All chatbot therapy delivers is a feedback loop where the simulated solution deepens the real-world problem.

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

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From The New York Times. "To glimpse the future of homelessness policy in the age of President Trump, consider 16 acres of scrubby pasture...

Psychiatric Drugs: The Real World is Where the Harms Live

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Joining us for a roundtable discussion are Brooke Siem, David Antonuccio, Kim Witzak, Angie Peacock and David Healy. They discuss the challenges of openly discussing psychiatric drug withdrawal, the meaning of informed consent, getting doctors to acknowledge medication-induced harm and much more.

Controversial Paxil “Study 329” Earns Expression of Concern After Critic Sues Publisher

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From Retractionwatch.com: "After more than 20 years of criticism and calls for retraction, a journal has placed an expression of concern on a study of...

Mad in Greece

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Mad in Greece came about as a small number of like-minded people who decided to create a space where voices of resistance could be heard and shared.

Intellectual Freedom: An Endangered Basic Requirement of Scientific Publishing

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A new editorial written by Giovanni Fava published in Rivista di Psichiatria. "The intellectual capital of medicine is the creativity linking clinical practice and research....

Antidepressants Took Our Sex Lives Away — We Are Taking Them Back: Brooke Siem...

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From Angie Peacock's YouTube channel. In this candid and deeply personal conversation, Brooke Siem, author of the award-winning memoir, May Cause Side Effects and...

Overmedicated in America: Share Your Story

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting on the overprescribing of psychiatric drugs in America. They would like to hear about your experiences and any...

How Radical Activism Transformed Mental Health in Brazil

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Anti-asylum movement in Brazil led to creation of a national network of community centers, which stands in contrast to the failed mental health system in the United States.

Podcast: Pharmaceutical Advertising and the Information Ecosystem

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Lydia Green interviewed on the Voices in Bioethics podcast.
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Lemmings Don’t; Humans Do

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Being depressed is not your fault, but part of buying into an insane society. You do not have a “chemical imbalance” but are responding to your world.
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My PTSD Is Mine Only

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Trauma doesn’t submit to categories. It doesn’t fit criteria. It is wild. It is intimate. It is always, always personal.

AI Could Make it Harder to Establish Blame for Medical Failings, Experts Say

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From The Guardian: "The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare could create a legally complex blame game when it comes to establishing liability for...
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Facing the Truth About World Mental Health Day

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Big Pharma has quietly sponsored World Mental Health Day campaigns, shaping global mental health policy.

Psychiatrist David Nutt Suggests More of the Same: Drugs

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From the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, written by Peter Gøtzsche. "On 11 February 2025, Professor David Nutt published a personal view...
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DSM: Improve, Trash, Replace, or None of the Above?

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Most clinicians are well aware that many diagnoses are vague, not specific, and don’t point to a treatment that works.

Medical Organizations Turn Blind Eye to Harms of Maternal Antidepressant Use: A Conversation With...

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Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff join Robert Whitaker on the Mad in America podcast to discuss the risks posed by maternal use of antidepressants.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - November 6, 2021: A small group of people providing a meal to the homeless and any other people in need in downtown Calgary

An Open Letter to Those I Love Whose Neurotypical Privilege Keeps Them from Seeing...

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The next time you see someone who is unhoused, have some compassion.
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A Call for Evidence-Based, Fear-Free Practice

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It is right to criticize MAHA, but poorly researched, fear-based responses by mainstream psychiatry only further mislead the public.

“How Are You?” The Strangest Question to ask in a Psychiatric Hospital

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Inside a psychiatric hospital, the social script doesn’t fit the situation. The location itself undermines the premise.

Will Cracking Down on Drug Ads Help Patients?

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From Medpage Today: "HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, would seemingly like us to believe that they...
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Peer Advocates Who Made Things Happen in Oregon

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We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a vision for system change.

Counter Archiving “Mental Health Records”

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Standing in front of the mirror, i wonder, “what outfit should i wear for scanning my psychiatric records at the local library?”
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Fifty Years of Grief

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September 27, 2025, is the fiftieth anniversary of the ignominious death in prison of my sorely regretted and dearly beloved friend Mark Frechette.
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The Vanity Fair of Magic Potions

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When someone is searching for medicine, there will always be someone else ready to sell them the “cure."