Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

But to her and everyone who saw me I remained seemingly coherent, intelligent and threatening with legal action if they tried injecting anything. E very time I put pen to paper about my story I shiver for I do not know what my pen will blacken the paper with. She took me to three in the city, big ones. I was calm and loud. Why would I?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

About twenty years ago in 2005, I was 22 years old and in severe distress. A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). The bill would also increase the maximum duration of patients written consent from 30 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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