Science Plays the Long Game. But People Have Mental Health Issues Now.
From The New York Times: When people are drowning, they’re less interested in the genetics of respiration than in a life preserver.
Psycho-Bizarreness Theory: A Rational, Anti-Psychiatric Theory of Madness
Contrary to the traditional view, Psycho-Bizarreness Theory sees madness as a rational coping mechanism which individuals adopt out of expediency.
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 4)
It requires extraordinary mental gymnastics by psychiatrists to conclude that neuroleptics, which cause obesity, metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, tardive dyskinesia, lethal cardiac arrhythmias, and so on, protect against death.
An American History of Addiction, Part 6: The Reagan Reaction
Kevin Gallagher addresses the Reagan era and the "crack" epidemic of the 1980s in this continuing series about the USA and addiction.
Psychiatric Drugs: What Therapists Need to Consider
From PESI UK: While it might be tempting for therapists to think that drugs are the sole concern of the prescriber and the province of the medical arena, this would be misguided.
AntiDepAware Is No Longer Active
From Behaviorism and Mental Health: The website, whose goal has been to raise awareness of the dangers of antidepressants, should be required reading for psychiatrists and anyone who prescribes psychiatric drugs.
Beyond Benzos: Jordan B. Peterson’s Trip to Hell and Back
I am thankful "Beyond Order" exists; if only because it serves as a cautionary tale for anyone looking to modify their mood using psychiatry’s plethora of pills.
Surviving the Bipolar Label with Karin Jervert
From The Courageously.u Podcast: MIA writer Karin Jervert discusses the trauma she experienced in the mental health system, and how she's come to understand her life journey apart from it.
ALERT: PROTECT CHARLES HELMER FROM ONGOING, FORCED ELECTRO-SHOCK IN MN
From Mindfreedom: Please help us protect 22-year-old Charles Helmer by taking one or more actions before Friday!
New Paper on How to Stop Antipsychotic Drugs Deemed ‘Historic Breakthrough’
From Metro: Though one of the fastest-growing classes of drugs being prescribed, there has been little guidance for doctors on how to safely taper them.
A Difference That Can Make a Difference: Mental Distress as a Call of Being
Could it be helpful to view mental distress by exploring Rollo May's concept of "being" rather than reducing humans to mere dysfunctional cogs in the machine of productivity?
Internet Forum for Tapering Psychiatric Drugs Provides Novel Insights
After 15 years, the founder of SurvivingAntidepressants.org, Adele Framer, shares what she has learned about the science of withdrawing from psychiatric drugs.
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 3)
Virtually every single placebo-controlled drug trial in psychiatry is flawed, systematic reviews of trials are also flawed, and guidelines are flawed. Even the drug approval process is flawed.
Antidepressant Withdrawal Misdiagnosed as Functional Disorder
Adverse physiological symptoms of antidepressant withdrawal are regularly mistaken to be other problems to the detriment of the patient.
‘Peak’ Podcast Ep. 7 – Micah Ingle: Psychology and Its Meta-Transformations
From Peak Podcast: MIA writer and Consciousness and Society PhD student Micah Ingle discusses his journey with psychology and where he sees it going.
Online Exhibition: Art-Making During the Pandemic
The online exhibition "Creativity and COVID: Art-Making During the Pandemic" features nearly 100 artists with lived experience with mental distress who shared with us their art-making process and how it helped them survive the global pandemic.
A Thief in the Hospital
I knew by then that there was a thief, but I tried not to rush to conclusions. I couldn’t even think of the possibility that it could be one of the staff. They go into the field in order to help people.
‘It’s Not Just in Your Head’ Podcast: We’re All Addicts, With Kevin Gallagher
From It's Not Just in Your Head: Mental health counselor Kevin Gallagher shares what he learned first-hand about America's broken approaches to addiction treatment while he struggled through his own addiction.
Childhood Trauma Is Not a Mental Illness
My childhood was stolen by systems focused on labeling and medicating me instead of healing the effects of abuse and neglect.
Federal Mental Health Agencies: Remember Ivory!
Ivory McCuen needed warmth and a home the night she died. Court-ordered psychiatric drugs deliver neither warmth nor a home. Federal agencies need to consider people with lived experience.
Get Out of the Explain Lane
From Benzo Brains: When you’re broken, it’s too hard to carry both yourself and others by explaining, pleading or arguing. Save your energy for the journey instead.
Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology: An Interview with Bethany Morris
MIA's Micah Ingle interviews Bethany Morris about the psychoanalytic study of film and the history of the "monstrous feminine" in psychiatry.
Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD
From Psychiatric Times: Awais Aftab interviews Dr. Sami Timimi on his latest book, Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How You Can Escape Them.
How Psychiatry Turned General Difficulties in Adaptation into “Real Illnesses Just Like Diabetes”
Though many psychiatrists have abandoned the "chemical imbalance" concept, they now promote the use of a pre-scientific notion that the only criteria for defining disease is the presence of distress or impairment.
Mental Health Survival Kit, Chapter 2: Is Psychiatry Evidence Based? (Part 2)
“Psychiatry’s Starter Kit”: Many people start their psychiatric "careers" by consulting their family doctor with some problem many of us have from time to time and leave with a prescription for a depression pill.
