What I Wish I Had Known Before I Stopped Taking Antidepressants, and Before I...
From the Washington Examiner: I learned the hard way that doctors can be remarkably casual about things patients canāt afford to be when it comes to putting people on, and taking them off, antidepressants.
Oryx Cohen – Short Bio
Healing Voices: Oryx is a leader in the international consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement. Currently, he is the Director of the National Empowerment Centerās Technical Assistance Center....
No Brain Connectivity Differences Between Autism, ADHD, and āTypical Developmentā
Neuroscience researchers find no differences in brain connectivity between children with diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and those with no diagnoses.
Words from My Heart to ‘My Heart’: What Might Have Helped My Late Friend?
More than two and a half years later, Iām still processing my grief, still picturing our happiness and innocence as kids, and still acknowledging our struggles and pain.
Beatrice Birch — OP-ED Bio
Beatrice Birch began her career as a teacher in an inner-city Waldorf/Rudolf Steiner School in Bristol, England in 1975. Ā Deeply inspired by the healing...
Babies Feel Pain More Intensely Than Adults, Brain Imaging Study Finds
From Return to Now: Researchers found that babies are actually four times more sensitive to pain than adults, even though painful procedures are still routinely performed on them with no pain relief.
Giving Caregivers a Platform: Sherita, Mother of Tony
This is the story of Sherita and her son Tony, and her efforts to help him following years of psychiatric drugs and hospitalizations.
Are Psychiatric Medications Safe? The FDA’s Answer May Surprise You
From the Inner Compass Initiative: The real responsibility for determining if a drug is "safe enough" or "worth it", said the Deputy Director for Safety at the FDAās Division of Psychiatry Products, lies with individual physicians and patients.
Natalie Tobert, PhD – Short Bio
Natalie Tobert is a medical anthropologist, the author of Spiritual Psychiatries,Ā a visiting lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and seminar facilitator in hospitals...
Gary Kohls ā Short Bio
Dr. Kohls is a past member of MindFreedom International, the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology and the International Society for...
Obituary of Fred Baughman, Pediatric Neurologist and Prominent Critic of ADHD
Dr. Baughman was the author of the 2006 book The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes Patients Out of Normal Children.
Christopher James Dubey – Short Bio
Christopher James Dubey is the author of the novelĀ Assignment Yggdrasil, aĀ sci-fi technothrillerĀ with strong antipsychiatry themes, which is currently published by Andrews UK.
Dennis Embry, PhD – Short Bio
Dennis D. Embry, PhD,Ā was responsible for drafting the letter signed by 23 scientists, who collectively represent scores of randomized prevention trials of mental illnesses...
Rossa Forbes – Short Bio
āRossa Forbes,ā a pseudonym, is the mother behind the blog, Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: A Mother and Son Journey.Ā She writes about schizophrenia from the...
Jim Gottstein – Short Bio
Law, Alternatives and Change: A Harvard-educated lawyer and long time activist for change in the mental health system writes about law as it relates...
Call for Teen Art in All Media!
MIA's Family Resources and Arts sections are co-sponsoring an online teen multimedia art exhibition with the theme āBeyond Labels and Meds: What It Feels Like to Be Me.ā
Enlarging the Treatment Lens for Postpartum Depression
Drugs, social support, placenta encapsulation: How can we approach the specter of postpartum depression?
Brenda Vezina – Short Bio
Under Brenda's leadership, the Central MA Recovery Learning Community offers trainings onĀ trauma-informed care, health and wellness, and professionalism in the peer workforce. A licensed...
Steve Stone – Long/Short Bio
Steve Stone is the Executive Director of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County.Ā He has worked in the community mental health field...
Hugh Middleton – Short Bio
Medical Essentials from England:Ā Ā A Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, a Member of the Royal College of Physicians and a medical practitioner of...
Bonnie Kaplan – Short Bio
Nutrition and Mental Health:Ā BonnieĀ has published on the biological basis of mental health ā in particular, the contribution of nutrition to brain development and function,...
Youth Antipsychotic Use Linked to Increased Risk of Death within Five Years
Those aged 18-24 had an increased risk of death within five years on doses above 100 mg chlorpromazine equivalents.
When Darkness Traps People, Consider The System
EDITORāS CORNER
If youāve been following the news over the last week or so, youāve likely read of Zoraya ter Beek, the young Dutch woman...
Their Kids Died on the Psych Ward. They Were Far From Alone
From the Los Angeles Times: Following almost every death at a psychiatric facility in California, the facility continues operating and does not face a financial penalty. Meanwhile, families remain unaware of the hospitalsā track records.
Growing Evidence for the Link Between ADHD Diagnosis and Age at School Admission
Researchers detect a striking relationship between the month of school enrollment relative to peers and patterns of ADHD diagnoses in a large sample of elementary school students throughout the US.
