Joanna Moncrieff joins Robert Whitaker to talk about her latest book, titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. They discuss the serotonin story and the fact that there is no good evidence that a serotonergic deficiency is a primary cause of depression.| Mad In America
The focus on the "worried well" and the exclusion of the "mad" serves to legitimize psychiatric control and surveillance.| Mad In America
From Med City News. "A Bristol Myers Squibb drug whose landmark FDA approval introduced the first novel mechanism for treating schizophrenia in decades| Mad In America
It’s never too late to seek another explanation for the problems you’re facing, to change your mind and get your life back.| Mad In America
Millions of people are trying multiple antidepressant drugs without success, and psychiatry labels them “treatment resistant.”| Mad In America
From The Guardian. “Across the country, a troubling trend is accelerating: the return of institutionalization – rebranded, repackaged and framed as| Mad In America
PAIMI organizations were designed to protect patients’ rights. Are they fulfilling their promise? And will they survive Trump?| Mad In America
Delusions are more than fleeting mental turmoil; they reveal the unconscious mind’s storytelling power.| Mad In America
Exhaustive, data-driven, systematic research topples the conceptual house of cards in which the antidepressant hegemony resides.| Mad In America
Peter Lehmann is a central figure in the struggle for emancipation and dignity of people with lived experience of psychiatric treatment.| Mad In America
From the Daily Mail in the UK: Katinka Blackford Newman interviews Laura Delano about her memoir Unshrunk. "My life nearly fell apart because I was put on| Mad In America
Professionals in the field must recognize psychiatry's connection to social norms rather than portraying it as a neutral branch of medicine.| Mad In America
Despite finding no meaningful correlation between genes and substance use, high-profile geneticists misleadingly conveyed optimistic results.| Mad In America
My healing didn’t begin with that pill. It began the moment I stopped handing over my truth for someone else to interpret.| Mad In America
Psychiatry is an atheist’s prayer, absolving the faithful of human desire It is miracle cures, sinners who have lost their way, and a holy book written by| Mad In America
From KFF Health News: "Overcome by worries, Lynette Isbell dialed a mental health hotline in April 2022. She wanted to talk to someone about her midlife| Mad In America
By honouring dreams, we honour our innate creativity, our shared humanity, our capacity to reimagine reality.| Mad In America
On the Mad in America podcast, Brooke Siem talks with Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz about their journey from working in the prison system to challenging conventional psychiatric narratives in their therapy practice and podcast, The Gaslit Truth.| Mad In America
South Korea ranks among the highest in the world for suicide, and its people are turning to psychiatric drugs in record numbers.| Mad In America
The studies are of short duration and are riddled with methodological issues like unblinding and failure to assess withdrawal.| Mad In America
From The New York Times: "From 2012 to 2022, the total number of prescriptions for stimulants to treat A.D.H.D. increased in the United States by 58| Mad In America
The guidance emphasizes shifting away from institutional mindsets and practices, the biomedical approach, and the use of psychotropic drugs.| Mad In America
I have been on Cymbalta for 17 years now and am gutted that my five-year taper did not free me of the drug.| Mad In America
"Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Jim Banks (R-IN), members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the| Mad In America
The whole system is broken and I pray for my friends in Great Britain. They need a reform, not cuts or euthanasia.| Mad In America
