The Government Has a Moral Duty to Help Those Harmed by Prescription Drugs
From The BMJ: An open letter by healthcare professionals decries the fact that there are still almost no NHS services to support patients harmed by taking pills as prescribed by their doctor.
An Introduction to the Trieste Model of Mental Health Care, and Why It Matters
From Vincenzo Passante/Psychiatry at the Margins: The Trieste approach is to suspend judgement on the exact nature of a person’s problem at the beginning of the relationship, and gradually help them make sense of their life within a dialectical context.
Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at the Crossroads: Mary Boyle Interviews Jay Joseph
The psychiatric genetics field is historically based in eugenics and diverts our attention from evidence-backed causes of human suffering and dysfunction.
Antidepressants Permanently Destroyed My Sex Life
From The Telegraph: More than eight million people in England are on antidepressants, but with devastating side effects for some, are they being prescribed too freely?
Splitting Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder
Recognition of C-PTSD might be a double-edged sword, further marginalizing the very individuals it aimed to assist.
Agony of Families Who Say Pills for Depression Led Their Children to Take Their...
From The Daily Mail: The knowledge that pills that are supposed to prevent suicidal feelings may actually be the cause of a loved one's suicide can only exacerbate survivors' pain.
‘The Antidepressant Story’ Airs Tonight on BBC1
From IIPDW: In response to the episode, a brief anonymous survey has been set up for those over 16 in the UK to capture experiences of stopping or trying to stop antidepressants.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Eight)
Researchers have again and again demonstrated that depression pills double suicides both in children and adults.
Stigma: But What if I Don’t Want to Be Like Everyone Else?
Should I keep silent when I am well, or continue talking about it, knowing that I will probably deal with stigma for the rest of my life?
Japan’s Radical Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis
From Aeon: The tōjisha-kenkyū movement makes space for people with mental health and other challenges to study their own experiences.
Dozens of Suicide Hotline Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook
From The Markup: Many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline promise anonymity but have been transmitting information on visitors through the Meta Pixel.
Podcast: The Rise in Forced Treatment and Abusive Guardianships
From PsychCentral: Often well-meaning family members are trying to 'help' by having their loved one force-treated, but they end up traumatizing and permanently damaging them instead.
Embodying Emotional Taboos: Musicians and Mental Health
Mia Berrin is a songwriter, producer, and recording artist based out of Brooklyn, whose project, Pom Pom Squad, has garnered attention over the last...
Mistreated Mental Health Patients Should Be Given Compensation, Public Apology, Report Finds
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The author of a report on the trauma caused by compulsory mental health treatment claims he was threatened by the Victorian government to make changes.
NIMH’s It-girls: The Genain Quadruplets and the Whiteness of Psychiatry
The poster-children of psychiatric genetics, who endured abuse throughout their lives, were also the product of a racist culture.
Why Are So Many Girls on SSRIs?
From Girls/Freya India: We are kidding ourselves if we think condensing every emotion into something diagnosable and solvable with consumption isn’t doing profound psychological damage to Gen Z.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Seven)
Peter Gøtzsche continues to detail the increase in suicide attempts and deaths found in studies of depression pills.
Cancer Risk Higher for Those on Clozapine
The antipsychotic clozapine, considered the “gold-standard” treatment for psychosis, was found to increase the risk of blood and lymph system cancers.
Society Has Protected the Adult and Blamed the Victim
From The Natural Child Project/Alice Miller: If mistreated children are not to become criminals or mentally ill, it is essential that at least once in their life they come in contact with a person who knows without any doubt that the environment, not the helpless, battered child, is at fault.
The APA’s Apology for Racism Omits Psychiatry’s Essential Bigotry
Psychiatry has acknowledged its history of racism, but can they ever acknowledge that the entire edifice is built on fundamental bigotry?
Our Society Normalizes Abuse
From The Bullied Bran: Why aren’t more people, like the community, working for the greater good? How has our society developed so that speaking up about harm being done to kids or the vulnerable is seen as a heroic act?
How Doctors Buy Their Way Out of Trouble
From Reuters: Medical practitioners paid $26.8 billion over the past decade to settle federal allegations including fraud, bribery and patient harm, then continued to practice medicine without restrictions.
How We Talk About Depression Affects Our Ability to Heal
From Justin Garson/Psychology Today: Our careless use of the "chemical imbalance" metaphor can actually make people worse off.
For Native People, the Past is Present: David Edward Walker on Oppressive Mental Health...
David Edward Walker is the author of Coyote’s Swing: A Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America, which was published in February...
A Major Problem With Compulsory Mental Health Care Is the Medication
From The New York Times: Our current direction, toward more involuntary, medically-centered care, won’t get us what we wish for: safer public spaces and fewer lost people.
