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From The Guardian: When I sought help for crippling invasive thoughts, I was told I had a disease like any other. But I wasn’t able to recover until I understood the fallacy at the heart of mental healthcare.

I know now that I can trust myself and listen to my intuition. Within the mental health system, I trusted everyone but myself.

Sam Ruck shares his fourth excerpt from his book Healing Companions, which describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her “alters.” 

From MedPage Today: Taylor Ware's August 2019 death was among more than 1,000 over a decade after police used common use-of-force tactics that are meant to stop people without killing them.

A comprehensive review indicates that children exposed to antipsychotics in the womb face an increased risk of ADHD and developmental delays.

A mom describes her son's descent into the harms of psychiatry—and his way out. "It was really difficult to watch Matt decline. He had given up hope that he could get well."

The published articles underreported suicide-related events and provided false claims that the drugs were effective.

From Irish Examiner: "Parents must surrender their point of view that there’s something wrong with the child and see that it’s the relationship that’s in trouble and the child’s behaviour is just a function of that," says physician Gabor Maté, who works with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness.

But parents are still sending children away to board, and it’s still dangerous.

In this new study, exposure to maternal anxiety in utero also harmed child development.

From Sociology Lens Insights: In recent decades, we have too often passed the buck of social problems to children who lack the power to say no to stigmatizing psychiatric labels.

Sam Ruck shares his third excerpt from his book Healing Companions, which describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her “alters.” 

If one person is struggling, everyone in the family is struggling. Families need support.

Author Deborah Kasdan discusses her memoir of her late sister, "Roll Back The World."

This is what social media does, she says. It draws people in. It hurts people. In the worst cases, it kills people.

From RTE: The child is among those impacted by failings in the North Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, with the public health service last year apologising for 'deficits in care' he received, including the inappropriate prescribing of heavy anti-psychotic medication.

A psychiatrist and mom reflects on teen suicide clusters in Palo Alto and discusses alternative ways to address adolescent mental health.

Drugs, social support, placenta encapsulation: How can we approach the specter of postpartum depression?

The ASD diagnosis glosses over the many developmental specifics that might underlie a child’s challenges related to social communication.

From Jay Reid Psychotherapy: Kids will do an amazing amount of shape-shifting to get their parents to be willing to care for them.

An epidemic of children blaming their parents in therapy? In my 20 years as a psychologist, I've seen the opposite.

From The New York Times: Singulair, now a generic, is still used by millions of Americans even after thousands of patients and dozens of studies have described harm. Children face the greatest risks of the drug's ill effects.

Miranda Spencer discusses Britney Spears' new memoir and the harms of conservatorship.

This is the story of Sherita and her son Tony, and her efforts to help him following years of psychiatric drugs and hospitalizations.

I have watched as my father’s pursuit of happiness was swept away by the court system in his senior years.