Cured: A Memoir—Sarah Fay on Giving Everyone the Chance to Heal

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Author Sarah Fay joins us to discuss why "cured" is such a seldom-used word in psychiatry.

Everyone’s Afraid of an Angry Woman: Honoring Sinéad O’Connor

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In her tragic passing, I choose to honor her by raising up these words she said, by hearing and believing them.

ChatGPT Changes Its Mind: Maybe Antidepressants Do More Harm Than Good

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This week, I wanted to see what ChatGPT would have to say about the long-term impact of antidepressants and about the STAR*D study.

Sharon Lambert and Naoise Ó Caoilte—Mental Health Podcasts: A Force for Good in a...

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Researchers from University College Cork discuss their research on the benefits of listening to mental health related podcasts which indicates that podcasts improve mental health literacy, and reduce stigma.

Can ChatGPT Defend the Long-term Use of Antipsychotics?

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ChatGPT has perfectly captured the pattern of psychiatry’s response to the research that tells of harm done.

Q&A: How Can We See ADHD From Another Angle, and What Can We Do...

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We all want to help our kids or our students, and sometimes finding the right key to unlock a child’s gifts is a matter of time, patience, trial, and error.

Examining the ‘D’ in CPTSD | Terry Baranski

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From CPTSD Foundation: Developmental trauma doesn’t create disorders — it creates coping strategies, which are processes rather than discrete things.

Only When It Poured

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Disposable toothbrushes and sporks. Crayons instead of pens. Little pills in little paper cups. Someone would come. Someone would go. The days turned into nights and back again.

Society Has Protected the Adult and Blamed the Victim

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From The Natural Child Project/Alice Miller: If mistreated children are not to become criminals or mentally ill, it is essential that at least once in their life they come in contact with a person who knows without any doubt that the environment, not the helpless, battered child, is at fault.

Teenagers Pathologized by Traditional Addiction Treatment

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From Filter: Traditional treatment can pathologize normal behaviors of adolescence, thereby reinforcing stigma and existing low self-esteem.

The Therapy Part of Psychedelic Therapy Is a Mess

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From WIRED: There’s little evidence to prove how necessary or helpful many of the accepted norms in psychedelic-assisted therapy are—and some could even harm patients.

Chris Bullard—The Sound Mind Live Festival

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Chris Bullard is the executive-director of the Sound Mind Live Festival which uses music as a connective force to bring people together to help address mental health stigma.

Chris van Tulleken—Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food and...

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We are joined by Dr. Chris van Tulleken who talks about the science, economics, history, and production of ultra-processed food. We discuss some of the effects of UPF on our brains and bodies and how the food industry positions UPF to dominate our diets.

Giving Caregivers a Platform: Elianna, Mother of Brandon

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An interview with Elianna, who lives in Colorado with her son, Brandon, 34. His many diagnoses and misdiagnoses include autism and schizophrenia.

Patients at Greatest Risk of Self-Harm Right After Starting Antidepressants: Study

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From Axios: It has been known since 2004 that antidepressants can increase suicidal behavior, but new research is clarifying when the threat is greatest.

Trauma Responses Are Conditioned, Not “Chosen”

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From Dr. Glenn Doyle: From our nervous system’s point of view, if it had to wait around for us to think about everything that happens to us or "choose" a response, we’d have been eaten by sabre tooth tigers eons ago.

David Carmichael—The Antidepressant Safety Tour

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Drug safety advocate David Carmichael joins us to discuss his upcoming antidepressant safety tour and the importance of fully informed consent when prescribing SSRI antidepressants.

Interview with Robert Whitaker – How Psychiatry Lost Its Way

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From Witt-Doerring Psychiatry: Robert Whitaker and Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring discuss what is wrong with the way psychiatry is practiced today, why there are so many problems and why they haven't been fixed.

Governments, Treatment Providers Don’t Want to Expose “Dark Heart” of Mental Health System

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From The Walrus: "People are suffering," said psych survivor and counselor Tracy Myers. "The idea that sticking them in a cell and giving them drugs is a solution for this is insanity."

Orlando Psychiatrist’s Practice Restricted After Sexual Assault Allegations

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From Orlando Sentinel: Multiple women have accused Dr. Iftikhar Rasul, founder of Serene Behavioral Health, of groping them under the guise of a medical procedure.

Patients Given Aripiprazole (Abilify) ‘Should Be Told of Gambling Addiction Risks’

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From The Guardian: The UK's National Problem Gambling Clinic has observed growing numbers of patients who have developed a gambling addiction after starting to take aripiprazole.

Waking From the Nightmare: Is Recovery From Akathisia Possible?

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I had a chemical brain injury from medications. The only help doctors could offer was more medications: treating the failed treatment with other dangerous treatments.

The Misery of Being Misdiagnosed and Overmedicated

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From an early age, relatives and doctors alike had told me I was severely mentally ill. Naturally, I believed them.

Tanya Frank—Zig-Zag Boy: My Family’s Struggles With Broken Mental Healthcare

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Author Tanya Frank discusses her book 'Zig-Zag Boy A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood', which chronicles the experiences of her son Zach who experienced psychosis as a 19-year-old.

Mad Poetry Slam!

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Poets with lived experience with mental distress are invited to perform their poetry live at MIA's Mad Poetry Slam on Zoom on May 7th, 12PM EST.