What Does it Mean to Be Borderpolar?
Psychiatrists believe people can have both bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, referred to as “borderpolar,” although this is not an official DSM diagnosis.
Lack of Insight: The Story of Psychiatry
From Human Givens: Clinical psychologist Professor John Read is interviewed about his work showing adverse life events explain most types of emotional distress, and how the medical model ignores it.
Antidepressants: From a ‘Hidden’ Withdrawal Scandal to the Chemical Imbalance Row
From The Herald Scotland: Activists who've tried to draw attention to a darker side of antidepressants have been shouted down, dismissed, or accused of "pill-shaming."
Q&A: How Can We See ADHD From Another Angle, and What Can We Do...
We all want to help our kids or our students, and sometimes finding the right key to unlock a child’s gifts is a matter of time, patience, trial, and error.
Georgetown University Conference Addresses “Invented Diseases & Overtreatment”
From CounterPunch: Volatile questions about pharmaceutical marketing tactics characterized the 9th conference of PharmedOut, a project created by a grant from Pfizer’s 2004 off-label neurontin settlement.
Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 8: Depression and Mania (Affective Disorders) (Part Nine)
Peter Gøtzsche on more harms caused by depression pills, including akathisia and its connection to homicide.
Examining the ‘D’ in CPTSD | Terry Baranski
From CPTSD Foundation: Developmental trauma doesn’t create disorders — it creates coping strategies, which are processes rather than discrete things.
Psychiatry’s Denial of the Horrors of Tardive Dyskinesia
Tardive dyskinesia, a serious and horrible harm of psychiatric drugs, is often overlooked or deliberately ignored by psychiatrists.
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.
