Collateral Damage: The Negative Impact of Antidepressants on New Zealand Youth
Health and wellbeing in young people are trending down in New Zealand. Are antidepressants to blame?
How Drug Companies Manipulate Patient Advocacy Groups
From Lown Institute: Pharma funding and "grooming" of patient organizations has a profound impact on the drug approval process, as testimony from patient advocates has become more common.
Australians Taking Antidepressants in Record Numbers, but Coming Off Them Can Be āFrighteningā
From ABC News: Research shows many people experience severe and long-lasting withdrawal effects from antidepressants, and many patients feel their experience is downplayed by their doctors.
Toxic Marketing: The Business of Selling TMS
Ads pushing transcranial magnetic stimulation are everywhere. As someone harmed by the treatment, I believe they are misleading and unethical.
Watch Now: ‘For Life’: A Mini-Opera on Psychiatry by Dawn Sonntag & Kermit Cole
From Baldwin Wallace Voice Performance: "We pity you and your broken heart. But youāre not a doctor. Youāre not smart! Accept it! Be grateful. Your son must comply. Who are you to question this art?"
Mad in Italy
Mad in Italy's main focus is research, publishing articles on failures of the disease model and the effectiveness of alternate, humanistic approaches. The goal is policy change; the means is data.
America’s Lack of Bereavement Leave Is Causing a Grief Crisis
From Business Insider: In America today, as in other nations around the globe, people are being robbed of the time to properly experience their emotions.
Doctor Ordered to Undergo Psych Evaluation for Prescribing Off-Label Drugs for COVID
From FLCCC Alliance: A highly accomplished Maine physician's mental health is being questioned because she went "off-script" to save her patients' lives.
Mold, Benadryl, & Antipsychotic Drugs: Report Raises Alarms About a Mass. Mental Facility
From The Boston Globe: Potent drug cocktails have replaced physical restraints at Bridgewater State Hospital, a medium-security facility that was sued in 2014 over conditions and use of restraints and seclusion.
Depression: Compulsive Self-Deception | Alice Miller
From alice-miller.com: Depression is not a form of suffering that relates to the present; instead it is caused by the separation from oneās own self, abandoned early on, never mourned for, and accordingly doomed to despair and death.
Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry
My personal struggle to stop my friendās court-ordered psychiatric deterioration has reached the US Supreme Court.
Why We Shouldnāt Push a Positive Mindset on Those in Poverty
From Psyche: Mindsets are not free-floating: they are neither optional strategies that everyone can freely adopt nor value-neutral ways of enhancing wellbeing.
The Medicalization of Women’s Suffering: An Interview with Dana Becker
MIAās Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Dana Becker about how therapeutic culture fails to adequately address womenās suffering.
She Was Headed to a Locked Psych Ward. Then an ER Doctor Made a...
From The Washington Post: "Itās a cautionary tale," said neurosurgeon Ray M. Chu. "People get pigeonholed" if they have a psychiatric diagnosis.
Fear and Loathing in the ECT Debate
Proponents of ECT have resorted to ad hominem attacks and rude language in addition to reiterating the same tired points over and over. John Read responds.
Regulators Are Approving Drugs Without Clear Evidence That They Work
Drug regulators frequently approve drugs despite contradictory clinical trial results and without evidence of clinical benefits.
How Providers Can Support Psychiatric Drug Discontinuation
Supportive patient-practitioner relationships are crucial to the successful discontinuation of psychiatric medication.
Nature Is Healing: Some Canadian Doctors to Prescribe National Parks Passes to Patients
From National Parks Traveler: Evidence shows the health benefits of nature time range from better immune function and life expectancy to reduced risk of heart disease, depression and anxiety.
Mad in Norway
"People are getting some faith back. People are getting some hope, and they are finding each other, and we are building this community of people who want a change."
Fairness, Justice, and Childhood Trauma | Daniel Mackler
From Daniel Mackler/Wild Truth: Unresolved trauma tends to twist people's sense of fairness and justice because they lose perspective on where they are and who they are in relation to other people.
Susan Inman Is at It Again
Veterans of our mental health system know that seeking voluntary care is dangerous. We will organize and find our voice. People like Ms. Inman need to get out of our way.
Are You ‘Mentally Ill,’ or Very Unhappy? Psychiatrists Canāt Agree
From The New Statesman: As rates of diagnosis rise, a fierce debate rages in psychiatry. Are we experiencing a parallel pandemic, or having a rational response to a traumatic world?
The Danger of Marginalizing People
Instead of increasing understanding of our differences, the mental health system contributes to the marginalization of people it classifies as mentally ill.
Lithium, Antidepressants, EsketamineāAll No Better Than Placebo?
Peter Simons covers a clinical trial that found lithium ineffective at preventing suicide attempts, an essay by Allen Frances on the overdiagnosis of depression and overprescription of antidepressants, a review of the ineffectiveness and dangers of antidepressants, and an analysis that revealed that esketamine failed five of its six clinical trials.
When Meds Taken āAs Prescribedā Still Cause Harm
From Lown Institute: The upcoming documentary "As Prescribed" shares the stories of people in all stages of benzo withdrawal and the massive impact benzos have had on their physical, social, and financial health.
