The Grief Pill is Coming!
If you yearn or pine too long for your dead child, partner, spouse, or friend, you may be addicted to grief, according to the new revision of the DSM.
Mad in Finland
The people who run Mad in Finland have experienced profound awakenings in the course of their lives, moments of awareness when they understood the failures of the psychiatric disease model and saw its harms.
‘My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery From Western Civilization’
From What Is Sustainable and Spirituality & Practice: Therapist and activist Chellis Glendinning's 1994 book describes the link between the rampant psychological dysfunction in our society and the ecological crisis in our world.
Inside a Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Calling in AIR Strikes
I was not going to earn my release the âtraditionalâ way through unquestioning obedience to the treatment team and ADMIN. I was either going to die in there or find a non-traditional path to my freedom.
Protesters Pretend to Be âDrowning Miceâ to Call Attention to Animal Abuse in Antidepressant...
From news.com.au: Also known as the âdespairâ test, the "forced swim" test is commonly used in pharmaceutical research to measure the supposed effectiveness of antidepressant medications.
Inquiry Investigates Deaths of 1,500 NHS Mental Health Patients in Essex
From The Guardian: The children and adults died in "unexpected, unexplained or self-inflicted" circumstances and after "unacceptable examples of dispassionate behaviours" by staff from 2000 to 2020.
Responding to Daniel Morehead, MD, Psychiatry’s Latest Champion
It is easier to score cheap and invalid points against one's critics than to expend the time and energy necessary to examine their criticisms.
Mental Wellbeing Poorest in English-Speaking Countries of the World
A survey of 233,087 âinternet usersâ in 34 countries that measured âmental wellbeingâ found that the percentage of respondents who were âdistressed or strugglingâ was highest in English-speaking regions of the world, where 30% fell into this category.
Deaths of Despair: Why Americaâs Medical Industry Explains Working-Class Suicides
From The Guardian: The US healthcare system is helping to kill people in staggering numbers and is bleeding the rest of the country of its resources.
Trusting People as Experts of Themselves: Sera Davidow on the Wildflower Peer Support Line
Sera Davidow is a filmmaker, activist, advocate, author, and mother of two very busy kids. As a survivor of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse...
Connecting the Dots: My Toxic Workplace Made Me âMentally Illâ
In 1996, I suffered my first manic episode. My mother was convinced it had been caused by chemical exposure. But I wouldnât hear it, and neither would my psychiatrists.
Hannah Arendt On Standing Up to the Banality of Evil
From Philosophy Break: Do we ever take the time to truly challenge the principles weâve inherited, to ensure they stand up to our own individual scrutiny?
Mad in the UK
Mad in the UK describes its mission as âFundamentally re-thinking UK mental health practice and promoting positive change.â
Is âCry-It-Outâ the Tip of a Dangerous Parenting Iceberg?
From Raised Good: Babies who learn early in life that their needs donât matter are predisposed to experiencing a myriad of negative mental and emotional outcomes.
We Have Overwhelmingly Lost Touch With the Human Aspect of Medicine
From KevinMD: We are nurturing an environment of emotional phobia, where people can no longer identify and frankly fear their own emotions and the emotions of others.
The Functions of the Mental Health System Under Capitalism
The mental health system is a system of care and control, legitimated by the concept of mental illness, and playing an important role in capitalist and Neoliberal societies.
Breaking Off My Chemical Romance: Reassessing Antidepressants
From The Nation: Some medical professionals are concluding what until recently felt too heretical to say out loud: Antidepressants may often cause more harm than good.
Pharma Payments to Psychiatrists: The Million Dollar Club
The Institute for Scientific Freedom has published an article by Whitaker and Gotzsche on industry payments to academic psychiatrists, a version of a 2021 MIA Report, Anatomy of an Industry.
Thomas Jobe: The Legacy of Research He Leaves Behind
Thomas Jobe was a collaborator in a longitudinal study that upended conventional thinking about antipsychotics. He died March 16.
The Power of Addiction and the Addiction to Power | Gabor Maté, MD
From TEDx Talks: Which addiction is greaterâan individual drug addiction, or the addiction to oil, to consumerism, to acquisition and power over others? Which causes the greater harm?
Former NIMH Directorâs New Book: Why, With More Treatment, Have Suicides and Mental Distress...
Psychiatryâs worsening outcomes despite increased treatment should provoke the consideration that a paradigm shift is necessary.
Antipsychotics Often Prescribed Without Informed Consent
New research reveals that patients are often not given fully informed consent before being prescribed antipsychotics.
Engaging “Madness”: A Guide for Significant Others and Families
Using personal stories from my own family, my new booklet Engaging 'Madness' paints a clear picture of what an alternative healing journey outside the biomedical paradigm can look like.
Rhythm Regulates the Brain: The Impact of Music (& More) on Mental Health
From Don't Try This Alone: "Patterned, repetitive, rhythmic somatosensory activity⊠elicits a sensation of safety" and is key in bringing down the high stress levels of traumatized people, says Dr. Bruce Perry.
Mad in Sweden
Lasse Mattila, founder of Mad in Sweden: "You only ask the question, âWhatâs wrong with you? What symptoms do you have?â But you donât ask: âWhat happened to you? What tragedies did you have?ââ
