Q&A: How Can We See ADHD From Another Angle, and What Can We Do...
We all want to help our kids or our students, and sometimes finding the right key to unlock a childās gifts is a matter of time, patience, trial, and error.
Examining the āDā in CPTSD | Terry Baranski
From CPTSD Foundation: Developmental trauma doesnāt create disorders ā it creates coping strategies, which are processes rather than discrete things.
Only When It Poured
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
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
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
From WIRED: Thereās little evidence to prove how necessary or helpful many of the accepted norms in psychedelic-assisted therapy areāand some could even harm patients.
Chris BullardāThe Sound Mind Live Festival
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 TullekenāUltra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food and...
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
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
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 āChosenā
From Dr. Glenn Doyle: From our nervous systemās point of view, if it had to wait around for us to think about everything that happens to us or "choose" a response, weād have been eaten by sabre tooth tigers eons ago.
David CarmichaelāThe Antidepressant Safety Tour
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
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 Donāt Want to Expose “Dark Heartā of Mental Health System
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 Psychiatristās Practice Restricted After Sexual Assault Allegations
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) āShould Be Told of Gambling Addiction Risksā
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?
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
From an early age, relatives and doctors alike had told me I was severely mentally ill. Naturally, I believed them.
Tanya FrankāZig-Zag Boy: My Familyās Struggles With Broken Mental Healthcare
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!
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.
ScreeningĀ for Perinatal Depression: An Effective Intervention, or One That Does More Harm Than Good?
Why does the U.S. describe perinatal screening as providing a proven benefit, while the task forces in the U.K. and Canada see no evidence of such benefit?
Internal Review Found āFalsified Dataā in Stanford Presidentās Alzheimerās Research
From The Stanford Daily: Colleagues say Marc Tessier-Lavigne tried to keep hidden the findings of an inquiry into his 2009 Nature paper that had made a splash in the Alzheimer's research world.
BJGP Publishes Advice for GPs on Withdrawing From SSRI Antidepressants
From IIPDW: This is an important moment as the journalĀ is widely read by GPs, who are the main prescribers of SSRI antidepressants in the UK.
Black Movement Leaders: Lost & Found
As some of us get caught up in lamenting the whiteness of our movement, we are actively losing the stories of Black leaders.
Remembering Fernando Freitas in Brazil
Psychiatrist Paulo Amarante writes of Fernando Freitas and his fight against psychiatry's pathologization of life.
