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Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers

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New data reveals that four times as many callers to 988 as previously publicly claimed are getting visited by police or emergency medical services.
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Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides

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Depression drugs don’t work, and they increase suicide.
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Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine

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Psychiatry, under the guise of science, tries to identify and manage those who deviate from industrial society's norms.
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Schizophrenia in Philosophy and Theology

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From Socrates to Jesus to Nietzsche, all experienced divine Beatific Visions, just as I have.

Antidepressant Withdrawal Symptoms Linked to Life-Altering Consequences, New Study Shows

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A new study reveals that withdrawal symptoms from antidepressants can last years, disrupting lives and relationships.
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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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The Situational Approach provides an alternative to the poor outcomes seen with the medicalisation of distress.

Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the...

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American psychiatry, the NIMH, the larger medical community, and mainstream media have betrayed the American public by failing to make this scandal known.

W.H.O. and U.N. Join Calls to Transcend the Medical Model

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From Psychology Today: It will be harder for die-hard defenders of the medical model to dismiss such organizations as the UN and the WHO as extremist, anti-psychiatry radicals.
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Beyond Techniques: The Common Factors That Drive Healing

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Common factors, rather than the intricacies of any single modality, are the real engine of therapeutic transformation.
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As a Psychologist, I’ve Seen Many Children Misdiagnosed as Autistic—It’s a Clinical Catastrophe

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The ASD diagnosis glosses over the many developmental specifics that might underlie a child’s challenges related to social communication.

The New Opium of the People: Why Our Mental Health Sector Has Failed

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From iai News: By sweeping the social causes of distress into the private corners of self, our mental health sector has helped stifle collective and community action.

Kids Are Not the Problem: An Interview With Gretchen LeFever Watson

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In this interview, Brooke Siem, who is the author of a memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects, interviews Gretchen LeFever Watson, PhD. Gretchen...

Seclusion, Restraint and Coercion: Abuse ‘Far Too Common’ in Mental Health Services Across the...

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From The Telegraph: The WHO has called for 'considerable' changes in countries of all income levels, citing widespread use of forced admission and treatment; manual, physical and chemical restraint; physical, verbal, psychological and sexual abuse; and unsanitary living conditions.
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Kyrie Therapeutic Farm: Distress Understood as Part of the Human Condition

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KTF aims to combine supportive community, holistic care, and meaningful opportunities for participating in a natural farm setting.
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Prescription Drugs Are the Leading Cause of Death

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Overtreatment with drugs kills many people, and the death rate is increasing. Why have we allowed this drug pandemic to continue?

‘Prescripticide’: Short Film by ISEPP

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From ISEPP: The International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry looks at the devastating consequences of the unchallenged use of psychiatric drugs.

Caught in a Trap: Psychiatric Sabotage by Liam Kirk

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From Asylum Magazine: Liam Kirk explains what happened when he took part in the RADAR trial to try to come off anti-psychotic medication.
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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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Labeling kids with “brain diseases” sets them up for failure. This explains why the U.S. has so many youth crises.

Peer Support and Resistance: Becky Brasfield’s Vision for Mental Health Justice

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In this interview with Ayurdhi Dhar, Becky Brasfield calls for radical truth-telling in the mental health system.

Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

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A roundup of Mad in America's most read blogs and personal stories of 2024 as chosen by our readers.
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The Ouija Board and the Skeptic

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Skepticism, especially from those with lived experience, is necessary. It forces us to question whether our tools and methods truly help.

The Psychological Humanities Manifesto: An Interview with Mark Freeman

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Justin Karter interviews narrative and philosophical psychologist Mark Freeman about his vision for the future of psychology.

“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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High levels of childhood adversity interact with violent crime, poverty, and lack of access to education.

Unregistered Podcast: Robert Whitaker

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From Unregistered Podcast: Thaddeus Russell speaks with journalist Robert Whitaker about the catastrophic mass deployment of psychoactive drugs by contemporary psychiatry.
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How and Why Neurotypicals Misunderstand and Mistreat Autistic People

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Commonly used autism interventions, such as ABA, have been found to be both ineffective and abusive, inflicting trauma on those subjected to them.