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What is the risk of permanent sexual dysfunction from antidepressants?
Antidepressants have destroyed my sexual function and range of emotions
Campaign against ECT gains traction
Lancet Psychiatry: We are undervaluing the placebo effect
Breaking blind: antipsychotic drug efficacy may be overestimated
The hidden risks of school mental health programmes
Austerity is shattering lives. How should mental health professionals respond?
The emerging field of ‘psychological humanities’ could broaden our understanding of mental health
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court could surge the psychiatric labelling and drugging of Native American foster youth
Prescribers often fail to support patients discontinuing antidepressants, study finds
The ‘capacity for suicide phenomenon’ and the Mental Capacity Act
Global survey leads to new recommendations for deprescribing psychiatric drugs
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OTHER RESOURCES
Mad in America – Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad).
The Power Threat Meaning Framework – Towards the identification of patterns in emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behaviour, as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis.
Drop the Disorder (Facebook) – a group for anyone who is interested in challenging traditional approaches to emotional distress.
A Disorder 4 Everyone – Exploring the culture of psychiatric diagnosis – creating change. Provides events, blogs and other resources.
A free-to-use guide to the healing of psychological trauma is available. It comprises information, approaches to healing and resources together with links to selected clinicians, organisations, projects and support groups. Download the pdf here: Healing Psychological Trauma
Hearing Voices Network – If you hear voices, HVN can help – we are committed to helping people who hear voices. We offer information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them.
International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (UK) – works to promote greater knowledge of the different psychological approaches to psychosis and psychotic experiences – psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, arts-based, family and holistic approaches – and their better integration with each other and with pharmaceutical approaches.
The Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry – CEP exists to communicate evidence of the potentially harmful effects of psychiatric drugs to the people and institutions in the UK that can make a difference.
The Inner Compass Initiative and Withdrawal Project – provides information, resources, tools, and connecting platforms to facilitate more informed choices regarding all things “mental health”.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prescribed Drug Dependence will address the growing problem of prescribed drug dependence by demanding appropriate services for those affected, proper training for medical professionals, reduced prescribing through adherence to new and existing guidelines, better data regarding the prevalence of PDD and more research into long-term harms associated with PDD.
More resources are listed here.