Catherineās Story: A Child Lost to PsychiatryĀ
A year ago today, our youngest child died, thanks to the adversarial actions and toxic treatments foisted on her by medical-model psychiatry. By telling her story, we hope to promote systemic change.
Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology
The scientific evidence is of social/psychological, not biological, causation: negative environmental conditions, not disease.
Randomized Controlled Trial Confirms That Antipsychotics Damage the Brain
A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry connects antipsychotics with damage to the brain in multiple areas.
The New DSM Is Coming and That Isnāt Good News
Binge Eating Disorder is one of many invalid diagnoses weāll continue to receive as a result of the APAās failure to correct the mistakes of past versions of the DSM.
Searching for the āPsychiatric Yetiā: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic
After decades of study, billions of dollars spent, and thousands of studies conducted, the failure to identify any genes for schizophrenia should definitively put to rest the notion that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder, according to E. Fuller Torrey.
Beyond Benzos: Jordan B. Petersonās Trip to Hell and Back
I am thankful "Beyond Order" exists; if only because it serves as a cautionary tale for anyone looking to modify their mood using psychiatryās plethora of pills.
Ending The Silence Around Psychedelic Therapy Abuse
All the new hype about miracle psychedelic treatments as the next wave of cures for mental disorders leaves out the risk of therapy abuse.
How and Why Neurotypicals Misunderstand and Mistreat Autistic People
Commonly used autism interventions, such as ABA, have been found to be both ineffective and abusive, inflicting trauma on those subjected to them.
Intellectualization Results From Blocked Childhood Trauma | Daniel Mackler
Intellectualization is when people use their intellect, their logic, or their abstract reasoning to avoid having to deal with feelings.
Scientific Misconduct and Fraud: The Final Nail in Psychiatryās Antidepressant Coffin
From CounterPunch: A recent reanalysis of previously undisclosed data reveals that STAR*D may go down in US medical history as one of its most harmful scandals.
DOOCE: A Case Study on the Failure of Psychiatry
Heather Armstrongās life was taken by psychiatry, and our unwillingness to scrutinize their methods of madness.
āTetris for Traumaā Viral Twitter Thread: A Master Class in Misleading Psych Research
A TV writer claims that research shows that Tetris is āliterally a trauma first aid kit.ā Her tweets sound scientific, but the research behind it is unconvincing.
A Psychotic Experience can Help to Process Difficult Memories
The patient is talking, if sometimes more or less metaphorically, about real experiences. Hallucinations and delusions are not meaningless.
Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift
Many people continue to be victimized by psychiatryās adherence to a model that exists to satisfy guild interests, not science.
ADHD Drugs Linked to Cardiovascular Disease
Service users taking drugs to treat ADHD may be at increased risk for hypertension and arterial disease
Loss, Grief, and Betrayal: Psychiatric Survivors Reflect on the Impact of New Serotonin Study
Loss, grief, and betrayal are felt deeply by many who have been affected by the myth of the chemical imbalance, especially now that it has been debunked.
New FDA Study Shows Benzodiazepines Can Cause Long-Term Injury
The FDA has finally acknowledged the adverse effects of benzodiazepines, the dangers of withdrawal, and that the current packaging does not sufficiently warn of these harms.
The Alternative to Psychiatry Has Been DiscoveredāWeāre Just Not Using It
The psychiatric solution and the psychological solution to psychopathology are fundamentally incompatible with each other.
Suicide Hotlines Bill Themselves as ConfidentialāEven as Some Trace Your Call
Every year suicide hotline centers covertly trace tens of thousands of confidential calls, and police come to homes, schools, and workplaces to forcibly take callers to psychiatric hospitals.
Antidepressants No Better Than Placebo for About 85% of People
Researchers canāt predict the 15% who benefit from antidepressants, and the other 85% are unnecessarily exposed to the harms of the drugs.
Mental Health Staff Reluctant to Support Service Users in Tapering Antipsychotics, Study Finds
Study reveals schizophrenia patients find little support from mental health staff in reducing side effects-heavy drugs.
Childhood Trauma Is Not a Mental Illness
My childhood was stolen by systems focused on labeling and medicating me instead of healing the effects of abuse and neglect.
A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression
From Psychology Today: An exhaustive new review debunks the āchemical imbalanceā theory of depression, despite its persistence among physicians and the public.
Arrested Development: Britney Spearsā Memoir Is a Survivorās Tale of Generational Trauma, Psychiatric Abuse,...
Miranda Spencer discusses Britney Spears' new memoir and the harms of conservatorship.
Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Improve Disease or Reduce Mortality
Nassir Ghaemi: āMost psychiatric medications are purely symptomatic, with no known or proven effect on the underlying disease. They are like 50 variations of aspirin, used for fever or headache, rather than drugs that treat the causes of fever or headache.ā