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May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

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B rooke Siem is a writer, speaker, and advocate for the safe de-prescribing of psychiatric drugs. Her work on antidepressant withdrawal has appeared in The Washington Post , the New York Post , Psychology Today , and many more. She is also an award-winning chef and Food Network Chopped Champion. In this interview, we talk about her experiences of withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects , published in 2022 which is one of the first books on ant

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How EMDR Healed My Trauma

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Youve been doing it all along. These were the words of my startled, excited therapist years ago in her office. I had come to her desperate to unlock and heal traumas that had built up over time. I was about a year into a romantic relationship that would become my marriage; a relationship so healthy, stable and functional that I was trying to self-sabotage.

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HIPAA-compliant email revisited

Reidbord's Reflections

In January 2021, I described my search for a HIPAA-compliant email provider for my practice, and reviewed several options. In the end I chose Hushmail for Healthcare. It was, and is, a good service: thoughtfully featured, reasonably priced (with minor changes since then), and fast support when needed. But the truth is, I didn’t [.] The post HIPAA-compliant email revisited first appeared on Reidbord's Reflections.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

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N ietzsche famously said of Dostoevsky that he was the only psychologist he had anything to learn from. In a letter to the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes in 1888 , Nietzsche exclaimed how Dostoevsky had provided, “the most valuable psychological material I know. I owe him a debt of gratitude.” Regarded as one of the original 19 th century existentialists along with Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky’s novels are known for wrestling with the deepest issues concerning human existence.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

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Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook. In this blog, he discusses the delusions of psychiatry. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. More issues with unreliable diagnoses and poor drugs A textbook called it a psychopharmacological revolution that we can alleviate or cure 80-90% of people with severe depression, and it claimed that pa

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The Connection Between ‘Bipolar Disorder’ and Migraine: Unraveling the History of a Family Line

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W hile researching migraines, I stumbled upon the connection between them and a bipolar diagnosis I received as a young adult. On this journey to find answers about my health a realization occurred — I have been having ocular and abdominal migraines since I was a child. My research has helped me understand the bizarre actions of my father, whose behavior has been the topic of discussion in the family for many years.

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It’s Time to Consign the “Selfish Gene” to the History Books | Jeremy Lent

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From Salon : “The idea that selfishness and greed are drivers of evolution, and therefore possess underlying virtue, has been around for over a century, ever since Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution became widely accepted. The archetypal robber barons, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller , both argued that the ‘survival of the fittest’ principle justified their cutthroat tactics.

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Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where Foster Kids Are a “Gold Mine”

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From Mother Jones : “A yearlong Mother Jones investigation shows that thousands of foster kids have been admitted in recent years to UHS’s [Universal Health Services] psychiatric facilities, where they typically stay for weeks or months, sometimes leaving far worse off than when they arrived. Foster children provide a lucrative patient base for the same reasons they’re so vulnerable: There’s rarely an adult on the outside clamoring to get them out, and often, they don’t have anywhere

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The War on Suicide Is Making Things Worse

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B efore her suicide in 2020, streamer Ohlana put out a statement regarding suicide intervention stating that “depressed [people] struggle to reach out in fear the ones closest to them will have cops show up and confine them against their will,” leaving them “alone with their dark thoughts.” They are, as she said, “stuck because they don’t want to be trapped where they just feel worse.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

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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? As I documented in CounterPunch earlier this year, it is now mainstream to acknowledge that: (1) psychiatry’s treatment outcomes are “abysmal” and “not getting any better”; (2) the serotonin imbalance theory of depression is untrue; and (3) psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, the DSM , is