Blogs

In JAMA Psychiatry, the authors claimed we have no way to assess outcomes, and no way to know whether outcomes are "continuing to improve."

My book is a memoir written around the denial of my medical certificate required to fly light aircraft for mental health reasons.

My experience caused me to look into the origin of including the patient in decision-making about treatment and informed consent.

Oppression is the single greatest factor contributing to human suffering. To treat it as an individual problem amounts to blaming the victim.

I have seen the exploitation wreaked by court-appointed guardians. It is up to us to use our voices for those who cannot speak out.

Discussing the studies that have compared the different psychosis drugs, as well as the harms of adding more psychosis drugs to the regimen.

Could it be possible that what we call “mental illness” is a direct consequence of the changes that occur in the body as a result of trauma and chronic stress?

When we are quick to pathologize suffering, yet do not provide the fundamentals for healthy living, it is inhumanity of the highest order.

A poem can be destroyed when psychiatry treats a poet without reverence and honor for their creativity and their diversity of mind.

How cold-turkey withdrawal is mistaken for "relapse," and how the largest drug companies have paid billions in fraud settlements related to these drugs.

We need to experience less comforting (though potentially highly rewarding) edges if we are to lead more fulfilling individual and collective lives.

Peter Gøtzsche discusses the lack of evidence for benefit, and the evidence of harms, of psychosis drugs used for early intervention/first-episode psychosis.

Peer respites have great value. Affinity peer respites—such as an LGBTQIA+ peer respite—may have even more.

Medically assisting someone in suiciding because they’re poor or experiencing mental or emotional distress does not value life; it shows a blatant disregard for it.

The peer respite/Soteria house model responds to emotional crisis with compassion and curiosity, rather than pathologizing.

Peter Gøtzsche reviews the evidence that psychosis pills substantially increase mortality.

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.

It is the capacity of mad studies to advance the idea that mad is not necessarily bad. Acute Religious Experiences are always phenomenally mad, but not necessarily pathological.

Jay Schulkin, a neuroscientist and philosopher of prodigious curiosity and energy, has died at age 70 of hepatic cancer.

Psychosis pills were hailed as a great advance, but this was because they kept the patients docile and quiet, which was very popular with the staff in psychiatric wards.

Authors with lived experience of extreme states present a humanistic contrast to psychiatry.

In this blog, Gøtzsche discusses the ways in which drug trials are biased, including breaking of the double-blind and industry manipulation.

My recent article was so threatening to the whole edifice of psychiatry that the peer reviewers and editors did what they could to kill it.

The screening test for depression recommended by the WHO is so poor that for every 100 screened, 36 will get a false diagnosis of depression.

When we requested specific numbers and data, the presenter suggested that there were so many different players, agencies, and moving parts it was hard to “make sense” of all the information.