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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery – Mad In America

How do I want to live with what happened? I can’t change the past, but I can choose how to move forward, focusing on progress, not perfection.Recovering from akathisia and other drug harm is a marathon in uncertain, often hostile, terrain.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/11/healing-from-psychiatric-drug-harm-part-2-rational-approaches-to-recovery/

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Researcher finds Intensive Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy reduced depressive symptoms in patients who did not improve with pharmacological treatment.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/11/depression-not-so-treatment-resistant-after-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/

Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View – Mad In America

The resistance to my ending my association with antidepressants was strong , but I did so . It takes much longer than stated to taper off and feel better for much is is involved , behaviorally and there was for me the trauma, the varied losses of my humanity and rights . My character was assassinated by ex and friends and family who were busy living their lives and trying to escape responsibilities and any association with mental illness .

It was a huge awakening that was quite unpleasant at times, horrific and very scary on my own.

Antidepressants are handed out like Pez candies with little thought to the many adverse reactions physically and trying to regain, rediscover just who you are under all that mind altering , soul snatching chemical straight jacket .Imagine all that as you are confirmed as misdiagnosed and all these RX were toxic to your body .

I present a middle ground on antidepressant withdrawal, where both sides are understood to have origins in wanting to help people.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/10/antidepressant-withdrawal-clinicians-middle-view/

The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes – Mad In America

The American Journal of Psychiatry will not be retracting the fraudulent STAR*D study. The American Journal of Psychiatry will not retract the fraudulent STAR*D study.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/10/the-american-journal-of-psychiatrys-answer-to-mia-a-silence-that-speaks-volumes/

Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Lead Research Group

Thomas Schlingmann and CSA survivors introduce a “self-organized research” approach, emphasizing the active role of childhood sexual abuse survivors in mental health research, challenging traditional objectifying methods.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/10/self-organized-research-championed-by-survivors-of-childhood-sexual-abuse/

Mad in America International Film Festival: New perspectives on mental health – The Tufts Daily

The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
— Read on www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2014/10/mad-america-international-film-festival-new-perspectives-mental-health

Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part One) – Mad In America

Peter Gøtzsche discusses the myths perpetuated by mainstream psychiatrists and the dishonest way they respond to critics.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/10/critical-psychiatry-textbook-chapter-16-is-there-any-future-for-psychiatry-part-one/