MIA Today

Why did Cochrane expel one of its best known scientists, who had helped get Cochrane started and bolstered its reputation? What happened that day?

These labels left me docile to a broken mental health system—a carceral system that viewed me interchangeably as a patient or an object, but never a person.

When I came off my last medication, my psychiatrist said to me, “You will get sick again.” Psychiatry has always been sure that I would never recover from bipolar disorder.

The effects of alcohol—both positive and negative—have a lot to teach us about the biomedical view of psychiatric diagnoses and the drugs prescribed to treat them.

Psychiatric diagnoses can be shaped by prejudice, reflecting biases that ignore trauma, diminish populations, and invalidate humanity and experience.

A new study finds that newborn babies experience antidepressant withdrawal after birth if their mothers take SSRIs when pregnant.

From The Telegraph: "Looking back now, I wanted someone to listen to me," said Sam Taylor, 19. "It was guidance I needed, not a prescription."

From Common Dreams: "Allowing the billionaires at the root of the opioid crisis to walk free while thousands of its victims are in prison is a catastrophic injustice," said Rick Claypool, a research director for Public Citizen.

A Vermont residential community program helps people taper or stay off medications with holistic care embedded in a pastoral setting.

My hero, mentor, and very dear friend Don Weitz died comfortably, in his home, on the afternoon of September 1, attended by his loving twin children, Lisa and Mark.

From The Globe and Mail: 'To divine' means to discover a truth through intuition or insight. Tarot is one divination tool that, done correctly, can help people gain clarity and inspiration in uncertain times.

It’s at that point of asking for help from someone in authority, someone we should be able to trust, that many have their story stolen from them.

Research finds that social cognition and emotional processing abilities can be disrupted by psychiatric drugs.

From Tidsskrift: The academic publishing industry, which shapes how we undertake medical research, is hugely profitable, with worldwide sales positioning it between the music and film industries and profit margins rivaling that of Microsoft, Google and Coca-Cola.

Psychedelics have become popular through the potent mixture of financial interests and desperation. Evidence for their beneficial effects is lacking.

Research suggests that slowly tapering off an antipsychotic reduces the risk of withdrawal psychosis compared to abrupt discontinuation.

Psychologist Jim Probert of the University of Florida's student counseling center explains why "Our goal is not to take the steering wheel out of the person's hands."

The IMSJ is a majority peer-reviewed, majority mad-identified academic journal which seeks to challenge the hegemony of traditional mental health discourse.

For the last three years of my mother’s life, she was under absolute control of her conservator. If we dared to object to the neglect or abuse, retaliation was certain.

A new study investigates how antidepressant withdrawal effects often get confounded with depression relapse in clinical trials.

Roxanne fled to Canada, and received formal refugee status, as a psychiatric refugee after being threatened with psychiatric imprisonment and forced drugging in Jamaica.

From Beam Consultancy: When we look people in the face and tell them that their actions are a deliberate attempt to tear down anything good in their lives, we are almost certainly re-enacting the part of somebody who has hurt them. "You asked for this." "You’ve got what you wanted." "It’s all your fault."

Just as it risks transmitting harmful narratives about pain and distress, psychotherapy might also subvert these very harms in pursuit of genuine healing and transformation.

From North Carolina Health News : State lawmakers have introduced a package of mental health bills that would provide alternative interventions, such as non-police crisis response units and more peer-support organizations.

Jim van Os and Peter Groot discuss their paper: “Successful Use of Tapering Strips for Hyperbolic Reduction of Antidepressant Dose: A Cohort Study” published in the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology.