Fri.Dec 01, 2023

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

Mad in America

“T he only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke. This is as true on a world stage as in a playground setting, where the bully holds sway over numerous kids who are too afraid to challenge their behaviour. It is how and why the tyrants prevail. So what, you may ask, has this to do with the psychiatric paradigm of today?

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What Antidepressants Are Saying 30 Years After the Publication of ‘Listening to Prozac’

Lawyers with Depression

- What Antidepressants Are Saying 30 Years After the Publication of 'Listening to Prozac'

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Why a Sufi Approach to Healing ‘Mental Illness’ Is So Powerful

Mad in America

From Psyche : “‘It began 12 years ago,’ Madhavi told me. ‘My face, hands and feet would get contorted; I would get very angry.’ From her purse, she took out tablets of clonazepam and lithium prescribed for anxiety and mood disorders by psychiatrists at one of India’s leading psychiatric facilities. ‘I took these medicines regularly,’ she said.

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Crisis Hotlines, Like Canada’s New 988, Promise Confidentiality. So Why Do So Many Trace Calls and Texts? 

Mad in America

In commentary for the Globe and Mail, Rob Wipond, MIA contributor and author of Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships , looks at the cascade of harms caused by many calls to supposedly confidential crisis hotlines — and opens with the story of an teenage boy who phoned a line and wound up drugged: “ A teen recently called a self-described “anonymous and confidential” crisis hotline to talk about his feelings – then, minutes