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Mad in Ireland

Mad in America

Although Jennifer Houghs older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. I knew she didn’t have a brain disease. To me, she was just my sister, Hough explains. Once you get a label in psychiatry, that’s the answer to everything, says Hough.

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Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

Mad in America

If I am correct in saying that exile can cure someone of schizophrenia, then I have proven that psychiatrists are wrong in claiming that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain. I know very well that my psychosis was a consequence of numerous traumas that had nothing to do with the chemicals in my brain.