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On hospice, a psychiatrist finally said yes to deprescribing. Once someone is on hospice, taking medications away becomes the normal thing to do rather than the dangerous thing. The post My Mother Had to Be Dying Before Anyone Would Take Her Off the Drugs appeared first on Mad In America .
A Psychedelic-Therapy Paper Has Sat Under an Expression of Concern Since March. Sage Still Hasn’t Decided. The post A Psychedelic-Therapy Paper Has Sat Under an Expression of Concern Since March. Sage Still Hasn’t Decided. appeared first on Mad In America .
Pilling explains how Mad Studies moves from first-person knowledge to questions of sanism, psychiatric authority, mutual aid, and collective resistance. The post Mad Studies Is More Than Lived Experience: An Interview with Merrick Daniel Pilling appeared first on Mad In America .
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 regard ADHD as “an identity, rather than a disorder”, with the result that many obtain assessments from poor quality private providers, which lead them […] The post Rising Number of People Seeking…
The sessions had value, but the relief I sought—a true shift in how I relate to the world—felt impossible. The post The Existential Was Never Meant to Be Solved Alone appeared first on Mad In America .
We must warn about the harms of antidepressants and bring people to justice who contribute to the suicides and homicides by lies and medical malpractice. The post Antidepressants Can Change Peaceful Citizens into Killers appeared first on Mad In America .
They said all my suffering was in my imagination. They couldn’t have cared less about my agony—they laughed at me as I begged for mercy. The post How I Fell Into the Vultures’ Clutches appeared first on Mad In America .
In this wide-ranging conversation on public mental health, psychiatrization, and community care, Dinesh Bhugra explains why meaningful lives, not symptom reduction alone, should guide mental healthcare today. The post The West Doesn’t Have All the Answers: An Interview with Dinesh Bhugra appeared first on Mad In America .
Despite her monstrous act, I can’t shake the feeling that Lindsay may have also suffered at the hands of a broken psychiatric system. The post When Treatment Fails: Why I Relate to Lindsay Clancy appeared first on Mad In America .
Benzodiazepine use is common, with research estimating as many as 12.6% of US adults report past-year use. A 2019 study found significant increases in off-label prescription of benzodiazepines to treat non-FDA approved ailments such as chronic pain while overdoses linked to these drugs have increased significantly. A new Finnish study published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica […] The post…
