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Longing by Elisabeth Andersen
A Psycho-Spiritual Journey
The Wellness approach, despite years of deliberate suppression, has survived and proven itself to be highly effective.
Guided Dreaming Can Transform Psychosocial Issues: 11 Case Studies
Dreaming problem-solves various waking concerns creatively through memory consolidation and emotional processing.
Schizophrenia and Homosexuality: My Experience and Case Studies
During my confinement, I became convinced that the forced repression of my homosexuality was the true etiology of my schizophrenia.
Burnout: How Mental Health Systems Fail Neurodivergent Professionals
Many neurodivergent professionals are burning out quietly in a field that prides itself on empathy while treating its providers like machines.
For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young
Labeling kids with “brain diseases” sets them up for failure. This explains why the U.S. has so many youth crises.
My Involuntary Metamorphosis
After day treatment, I went once a week to a “continuing care” group. What was “continued” was the lesson that you had a fault that was shameful, volatile and dangerous.
International online survey on the positive and negative effects of ECT, for patients and their loved ones. Please see here for more information.
Survivors And Families Empowered (SAFE) has developed a pilot project to work with caring families who have been stymied in their search for support and help. They encourage you to look at their evolving website and help by filling out their survey.
Peer Support and Resistance: Becky Brasfield’s Vision for Mental Health Justice
In this interview with Ayurdhi Dhar, Becky Brasfield calls for radical truth-telling in the mental health system.
Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the...
American psychiatry, the NIMH, the larger medical community, and mainstream media have betrayed the American public by failing to make this scandal known.
Mad Sisters: An Interview With Susan Grundy
Susan Grundy on her lifelong caregiving journey for an older sister diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 13.
The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora
Dr. Ellen Vora, author of 'The Anatomy of Anxiety', joins us to discuss trauma, grief, functional medicine and more.
One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose...
Rose Cartwright is a screenwriter and the author of Pure, a hugely successful memoir which was then turned into a series for Channel Four....
We Should Listen to Our Emotional Pain: An interview with Paul Andrews
Dr. Paul Andrews is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour at McMaster University. His research focuses...
RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES and RESOURCES – Peer support in mental health services
It is essential to remain faithful to one's personal history and experience, focusing on what one wants to do and how to proceed after having transformed a period of crisis into an opportunity. This implies an assumption of responsibility and respect for oneself
The silence of the lambs
Let us briefly list here a series of facts about the company in question and leave them in their indifferent and terrifying silence. Maybe at some point, someone will give them a voice. However, neither the minister in question nor his current boss dared to do so and, I guess here, they never will.
MANIA!?
Previously, when I was on medication, my friends' suicides had mostly aroused in me anger towards the psychiatric system that had mistreated and treated them, and a slight relief that my friends no longer had to suffer, I believed that they would be better off in their current state of being or non-existence than when they were alive. Now, however, it was different and my head, free from the worst chemicals, felt like it was exploding: guilt, fear, what-if-thoughts, longing, rage, sadness.
