Psychiatric Butchery: What I’ve Seen at a Homeless Shelter for Women with Children
Children are being given psychiatric drugs, ātreatedā for the abuse they receive in the harsh world of the homeless.
SAFE: Survivors And Families EmpoweredāAn Update
We hope to combat the increasing reliance on force, too often used with the justification āfor your own good.ā
The Path from Trauma to The Power of Nature: An Interview with Banning Lyon
Our guest today is Banning Lyon, author of The Chair and The Valley: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and The Outdoors. An account of...
To Young People of Color with Lived Experience: Pay it Forward; Become a Peer
A Peer Support Specialist tells her story and issues a callout to the BIPOC LatinX community, advocating for change.
Giving Caregivers a Platform: Leigh, Mother of Melissa
This is the story of a young woman who suffered through the agony of "kindling" and other drug-related harm, eventually dying by suicide. This is also the story of her motherās path ahead.
The Birth of The āJust Stop Itā Movement: A Familyās Journey Through Mental Health...
Will was plunged into an extreme state following exposure to a synthetic street drug, which led to repeat hospitalizations and psych drugs.
Dismissing the “Human Experience”: College Students Feel Unseen by the Medical Model of Mental...
In conversations with college students and recent graduates from across the country and around the world, they described feeling dismissed by views of mental health that narrow their experiences to individual medical problems.
Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider
Clinical psychologist Jessica Schleider is founding director of the Lab for Scalable Mental Health, researching single-session interventions.
The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus
Many people view their social media feeds as reflections of their identitiesāand when posts center on a specific diagnosis, it can feel like the platform is diagnosing them.
Did Something Happen?! The Power of Poetry in Telling My Sonās Story
It's hard, if not impossible, to impose on my sonās story any kind of literary āsense.ā As a writer and a mother both, this has been my challenge.Ā
Stealing My Mother From Me: The Horrors of Conservatorship
My beloved mother was mistreated, cheated, abused mentally, and alienated from her family by her conservator and the courts.
Engaging Voices, Part 2: Working Our Way Toward Connection
Sam Ruck shares his fourth excerpt from his book Healing Companions, which describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her āalters.āĀ
Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt
A mom describes her son's descent into the harms of psychiatryāand his way out. "It was really difficult to watch Matt decline. He had given up hope that he could get well."
Engaging Voices, Part 1: Validating The Arrival of My Wifeās First āAlters’
Sam Ruck shares his third excerpt from his book Healing Companions, which describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her āalters.āĀ
My Lived Experience Helps Others Heal:Ā Working with Families on the Path to Recovery
If one person is struggling, everyone in the family is struggling. Families need support.
‘It Was a Joint Effort’: Deborah Kasdan on Bringing Her Late Sister’s Story to...
Author Deborah Kasdan discusses her memoir of her late sister, "Roll Back The World."
āA Dangerous Substanceā: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
This is what social media does, she says. It draws people in. It hurts people. In the worst cases, it kills people.
Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later
A psychiatrist and mom reflects on teen suicide clusters in Palo Alto and discusses alternative ways to address adolescent mental health.
Arrested Development: Britney Spearsā Memoir Is a Survivorās Tale of Generational Trauma, Psychiatric Abuse,...
Miranda Spencer discusses Britney Spears' new memoir and the harms of conservatorship.
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.
Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Fatherās Last Years
I have watched as my fatherās pursuit of happiness was swept away by the court system in his senior years.
Q&A: What Is Executive Function, and How Can Parents and Teachers Help Kids Focus?
Ask anyone whoās ever taught kids, and theyāll tell you a story about one student who sticks in their memory.
Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What Iāve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and...
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,ā said Edmund Burke. This is as true on...
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.
‘A Playground for Predatorsā: Diane Dimond on The Abuses of Guardianship
Our guest today is Diane Dimond, a longtime, award-winning investigative journalist specializing in crime and justice issues. As a freelance journalist, syndicated columnist, and...
