Mad in America

Mad in the UK recently published a blog about how to avoid diagnosing your child and why. My first thought was to translate the entire blog, but I ended up quoting excerpts from it, summarizing and also adding my own thoughts.

The title 'Prenatal Origin of Love and Shame' raises many questions. Apart from the assertion that our state of mind may stem from our prenatal experiences, the question perhaps arises whether love and shame may really be mentioned in the same breath.

Two doctors who assessed the same patient cases arrived at the same psychiatric diagnosis in about 55 percent of the cases.

Mad in Norway is asking you and your organization for support. Those who contribute will be given access to recordings of lectures, panel discussions and presentations afterwards.

According to Mark E Smith, the road of excess leads to the ‘palace of accidents’, and the Bard of Salford’s take on this hackneyed phrase resonated with me from first listen.

I'm the mother of a lively 8-year-old boy. Next month, I'll be turning 40. Will I celebrate? I don't know yet. I'm not sure. This whole thing has been going on for a good two and a half years now.

There are many ways to present the Listening to Voices Movement. Precisely because it is a movement, neither its boundaries nor its structure are rigid. A movement should be dynamic, organic, alive.

The research findings encourage us to pay attention to our own well-being and our relationship with digital tools when using artificial intelligence.

This investigative report by Tobi Thomas for The Guardian presents the findings of a study that identified neuroanatomical differences between people living in areas where inequality is prevalent.

After a tremendous emotional toll of navigating bureaucratic hurdles, I finally obtained a summary of my medical record from my first involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.

Sangji uses one woman's story to show that emotional distress in Pakistan is shaped by patriarchy, poverty, trauma, and history, challenging individualised psychiatric diagnoses while advocating culturally grounded, systemic understandings of mental health.

I hold to a form of feminism which fundamentally opposes the pathologisation of women; presuming that however unusual or uncommon a woman’s actions or behaviours, there will be an internal logic to them that makes sense when placed in the full socio-ecological context of her life.

A story and personal reflection by Stefan Holm: Thomas hurries to drink his cup of lukewarm coffee, after which he speeds out the door, slams it, and runs down the stairs, since he has to catch his bus.

Over the last twenty years, the use of antidepressants has grown steadily in Europe and worldwide. In many countries, consumption has doubled, in some even tripled, especially among young adults and adolescents.

This text was written on the occasion of the publication in Greek of Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone's book "The Power-Threat-Meaning Framework as an Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis: An Honest Introduction" (Οι Εκδόσεις των Συναδέλφων, 2026).

If you are willing to take on the challenge of losing your income, your home, your relationships, your reputation, and your health all at once—precisely the damage the Compulsory Mental Healthcare Act claims to want to prevent—then book a compulsory psychiatric admission quickly.

A couple from Malmö were denied assisted fertilization after psychiatric diagnoses and previous contact with healthcare services were factored into the suitability assessment.

The use of psychiatric medications is becoming increasingly common. The pills promise that we can be “the best version of ourselves.”

What does it do to a young person, when growing up and adolescence is about not being a burden? Our anonymous teenager tells of how guilt and duty characterize life, in a phase that should have been devoted to everything else.

As a mother my involuntary psychiatric treatment profoundly impacted my young children, and it was also an even more difficult experience for me because of being a mum.