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Dismantling the Psychiatric Monopoly: Why We Need an Alternative

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

T he text that follows is the English translation of a speech I gave at The Danish Psychiatry Top Summit in 2024. A video of the speech, with English subtitles, is available here. The summit features professionals, politicians, and people with lived experiences. This year more than a thousand people attended. W e need a revolution.

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Youth Mental Health Academy Announces 2024 Student Capstone Awards

Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

After a successful pilot in Los Angeles in 2023 with a 160-student cohort, YMHA expanded into San Diego and the San Francisco Bay Area in 2024 and welcomed over 900 eager and talented students into the program.

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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

AUGUST 17, 2024

By Friday, the effects of K2 had turned his brain into a monster, a stark contrast to the gentle young man we knew. Told by his mother, Pamela, and his oldest brother, Joe, it’s also a story of resilience, loving commitment, and a push for change against a system riddled with discrimination and harms.

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Grief and Burnout: The Challenge of Staying Out of Psychiatry

Mad in America

JANUARY 31, 2025

That night, I dont know when, perhaps in October 2024, my sister was rushing me in her car through the night. Earlier in the year, in January of 2024, my father passed away. 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.

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9 Mental Health Books We Loved in 2024

Zencare

JANUARY 23, 2025

We've pulled together some of our favorite mental health books we've read or been recommended in 2024. Unf*ck Your Brain by Faith G. Harper Ever feel like your brain is working against you? Published on January 23, 2025 by Zencare Team. With all recommendations, take these with a grain of salt. Amazon Review 3.

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Despite Safety Risks, Prescribers Receive Little Guidance of Monitoring Antipsychotic Clozapine

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

A new review published in CNS Drugs analyzes the current available treatment guidelines for monitoring the potential negative side effects of clozapine. Shockingly, based on their inclusion criteria, the authors only found one existing guideline.

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.

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What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?

Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Recovering from protracted withdrawal was a huge challenge, and I had to approach it wisely, doing everything I could to survive the process and help my body and mind heal. In this article, I will outline what helped and what hindered my healing process. After moments of temporary improvement, sudden setbacks can occur.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. And psychiatrists’ primary treatments for depression—their so-called “antidepressants”—are now circling the drain. 2) What approach to depression makes sense? Genes and depression?

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What Are Waking Dreams, and Why Should You Care?

Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. Indigenous culturesaround the worldrecognize and intentionally cultivate waking dreams for both personal and communitywell-being.

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TV Series "Shrinking" S2 — Is Therapy Really Like This? (Part 2)

Zencare

JANUARY 3, 2025

Published on January 3, 2024 by Zencare Team. Written by David Rothman, LCSW and Allegra Balmadier, Content Manager at Zencare. Welcome to part 2 of this series! This article contains thoughts from Allegra, Zencares Content Manager (and big Shrinking fan) and insights from therapist David Rothman, LCSW. Alice finds out about Brian and Louis.

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Not Just a Dream: Finding the Mental Health Community I’d Been Longing For

Mad in America

DECEMBER 23, 2023

S everal weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. They were shatteringly vivid then—usually involving fleeing from hospital staff who wanted to lock me up and inject me with sedatives. But this dream was different, and it turns out, not so far from a possible reality.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series was edited by Mad in the UK editors, and authored by John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone (with part three written by an anonymous contributor). The series is being archived here.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

I knew she didn’t have a brain disease. Yet the trauma underlying Valeries struggles was generally treated as irrelevant to her psychological state, something that only became worse once Valerie received a diagnosis. To me, she was just my sister, Hough explains. Theres no room for your story.

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Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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.

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Dismantling the Psychiatric Monopoly: Why We Need an Alternative

Youth Mental Health Academy Announces 2024 Student Capstone Awards

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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

Grief and Burnout: The Challenge of Staying Out of Psychiatry

9 Mental Health Books We Loved in 2024

Despite Safety Risks, Prescribers Receive Little Guidance of Monitoring Antipsychotic Clozapine

Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

What Helped and What Hindered My Recovery from PSSD and Protracted Withdrawal from Antidepressants?

Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

What Are Waking Dreams, and Why Should You Care?

TV Series "Shrinking" S2 — Is Therapy Really Like This? (Part 2)

Not Just a Dream: Finding the Mental Health Community I’d Been Longing For

Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in Ireland

Exile: My Cure for Psychosis

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