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From Wounds to Labels to “Mental Illness”

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We don’t need to understand someone’s entire past to exercise a little emotional humility—to see behavior as adaptation, not brokenness.

Man Developed Psychosis After Being Jailed for 13 years on Indefinite Sentence

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From The Guardian: "A prisoner driven to psychosis after being jailed for more than a decade under an indeterminate sentence has finally been moved...
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Waking Up to Your Emotions 101: The Other Side of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

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Many people find themselves stuck: withdrawal symptoms might have passed, but emotionally, life feels overwhelming.

Antipsychotics Do Not Provide a Clinically Meaningful Benefit Over the Short-Term: A Review of...

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70 years of RCTs fail to provide evidence that antipsychotics provide a clinically meaningful benefit for treating acute psychotic episodes.

MIA Writer Peter Sterling’s Memoir of Global Engagement

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In a publication titled Memoirs of Global Engagement, MIA writer Peter Sterling tells of his path to a life of "global engagement."

Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing

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Will psychedelics represent something different, or will we recreate the same problematic paradigms?
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Where Is God When I Cut Myself? Soul Care and the Voices of Self-Injury...

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Care, as I’ve come to see it, is about sitting beside someone when the pain is too loud for words and not leaving.
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The Pill That Stays After the Panic Ends

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We need to stop expecting pills to do the work that only truth, connection, and expression can do. Relief is not the same as recovery.
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Therapists, Neutrality Is No Longer an Option — Politics Is Tearing Us Apart

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To my fellow therapists: stop playing neutral. Stop minimizing systemic trauma to keep your comfort intact.

Veterans Take Their “War Cry For Change” to Capitol Hill

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Despite VHA’s $571 million suicide prevention budget, veterans are dying by suicide at alarmingly high rates. Advocates want answers and accountability.

Senators Propose Ban on Drug Advertising to Consumers

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From The Wall Street Journal: "Sens. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and Angus King (I., Maine) introduced a bill Thursday that would ban pharmaceutical manufacturers...
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Inertia as Neuroceptive State Beyond the Pathologizing Lens 

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Reframing inertia as an adaptive, biologically based survival response offers a powerful alternative to traditional deficit-oriented models.

A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment

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Therapist and coach Nelson Lee joins us on the podcast to discuss how he approaches helping clients while navigating the complexities of antidepressant withdrawal.
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A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance

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With DSM-III, everything we knew about relationship dynamics was buried under the tidal wave of the pharmaceutical industrial complex.

FDA Approved — And Ineffective

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From The Lever (free subscription required): "Federal regulators have authorized hundreds of drugs without evidence they work, and many are dangerous. Nieraj Jain was puzzled...
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Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

In contrast to psychiatry's biomedical model, for many psychologists, care begins with listening rather than labelling.
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Researchers: “We Do Not Suggest” Antipsychotics for Depression

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Augmenting with antipsychotics was no better at reducing suicide than adding antidepressants, but led to increased risk of death from other causes.
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Depression Caused by Kissing? Psychiatry Hits New Low with Clickbait Fear-Mongering

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Instead of being laughed at, this study is being promoted across outlets like Vice and The Colbert Report.
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The Three Ages of Treating Madness: Confinement, Conversation, Chemicals

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There was a time when therapy did something dangerous—it listened. Suffering wasn’t seen as a malfunction, but as a story worth hearing.

“Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands”: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life...

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Paolo del Vecchio speaks with Leah Harris about his decades of public service at SAMHSA, what worries him most about mental health in today’s America, and where he sees hope in the recovery movement that he helped create.

Call to Action: Submit a MedWatch Report to the FDA

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From Antidepressantinfo.org: "We’ve submitted a petition to the FDA calling for stronger warnings and safer tapering guidance for SSRIs and SNRIs. Now we need...

Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

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Depsychiatrization is a way of reclaiming the right to be understood through a nonpathologizing, rehumanized lens.

The Rampant Reach of Pharma’s Hidden Hand

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From Patients for Affordable Drugs: "The influence of pharmaceutical companies on patient advocacy organizations is well-documented. Major drug companies and their trade associations pour...

More Than Half of top 100 Mental Health TikToks Contain Misinformation, Study Finds

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From The Guardian: "People are increasingly turning to social media for mental health support, yet research has revealed that many influencers are peddling misinformation,...
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Elderly Patients Who Stop Antipsychotics Have Better Outcomes

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Older adults are often prescribed antipsychotics off-label for behavioral control in the hospital. But there’s no evidence for antipsychotics helping, and a great deal of evidence of harm.