Love & Life Toolbox
OCTOBER 5, 2024
When new therapy clients sit down in front of me for the first time, my curiosity is always piqued around not only who they are and what kind of help they are seeking, but also their level of psychological awareness. Even if this type of awareness is clearly lacking, this doesn’t mean good work cannot be accomplished together.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 12, 2024
I wrote this article because of continued inaction by the FDA, DEA, HHS and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to inform veterans, their families—and all Americans—of the dangerous risk profiles of the drugs they’re prescribed. Many were not aware of these risks prior to starting them. Millions of others share this experience.
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. However, the following factors might be more plausible. It creates a risk of misclassification, often referred to as “bracket creep.”
Mad in America
JULY 19, 2024
It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. Efforts at Self-Regulation Being placed in psychiatric hospitals at a rate of almost once per year was greatly disturbing, and it provided me with motivation to get my situation under control.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
Psychiatry asserts that it has the medical authority to deem certain people “mentally ill,” and that such people can be forcibly treated because they suffer from “anosognosia” and thus lack awareness that they are ill and in need of treatment. Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.
Mad in America
JUNE 6, 2024
Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures. “I Cain reports how the Harvard Business School information session on how to be a good class participant instructs: “Speak with conviction. One explanation is the culture of psychiatry.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
Together, we have created a movement that rejects coercion, force, and pharmaceutical propaganda and embraces informed consent, individual choice, and alternative ways to deal with distress. People have the right to take informed risks if that’s what they want. What about the basis for informed consent?
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