This week, Mad in America explores four new studies around financial stress and mental health. The first links financial ...
On hospice, a psychiatrist finally said yes to deprescribing. Once someone is on hospice, taking medications away becomes the ...
A 2021 paper on the ethics of psychedelic-assisted therapy has carried a publisher-issued Expression of Concern since 12 ...
L eaving my weekly session with an existential therapist, I find myself reflecting on the interaction. I notice a modest ...
As a mother my involuntary psychiatric treatment profoundly impacted my young children, and it was also an even more ...
The Restigouche Hospital Centre is under investigation for human rights violations against patients, reports Savannah Sawde ...
Alain Vigneau ran away from a boarding school for boys to the high mountains of France, where he became a shepherd, then a ...
From The Guardian. “People are increasingly seeking to an obtain an ADHD diagnosis without pursuing treatment, according to experts who have called for more research to understand why. Some people now ...
"What’s happened, certainly in the UK in the last 10 years, is that every normal human response has been turned into a mental illness. That’s what psychiatrization is: normal human emotions are being ...
From Mad in Deutschland: The Greek word iatrogenesis (from iatros = doctor and genesis = origin) refers to direct health damage due to medical treatments, such as side effects of medications. When I ...
Warning Label: This true personal account, released 20 years after the fact due to the dreadful incapacitated state in which the events described left the author in, will, taking a highly ...