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BLOGS

Essays by a diverse collection of writers, which aim to change the professional and public discourse about emotional distress and unusual experiences. To submit a blog for consideration, please read our submission guidelines.
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Why psychosis is not so crazy: A conversation with Stijn Vanheule

Ayurdhi Dhar -
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It’s a No-Brainer: Living Proof We Are More Than Our Parts

Randy Cima -
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Art

Artist Memorialises Tragic Premature Deaths related to Psychiatric Drugs

Cathy Noble -
1
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Why Our Culture Makes Us Perform Instead of Live

Benjamin Ferry -
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What Would True Informed Consent for Antidepressants Actually Look Like?

MITUK admin -
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Moving tribute to a son who died while taking ‘antipsychotic’ drugs.

MITUK admin -
1
ATW

A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance

Amy Begel -
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Fresh Perspectives from ‘Emotional First Aid’ training

Matthew Morris -
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If forced treatment amounts to torture, how can it legally –...

Jennifer Hough -
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Meet Lara, My Anorexic Part

Katarina Lundgren -
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Liberation’s Campaign to rethink Mental Health Bill 2025

MITUK admin -
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Blindsided by Benzos: Had I Known

Rebecca Clinard -
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From Pathology to Humanity: Reclaiming Mental Wellbeing in Psychiatry

Luuk Westerhof -
1
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And You Thought They Were Side Effects

Randy Cima -
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Searching for Justice

Anonymous Contributor -
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ATW

Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Bruce Levine -
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What does consent mean in practice?

Cathy Wield -
4
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Home Is Where The Heart Is

John Hoggett -
3
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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

David Hansen -
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Interview with registered mental health nurse Laura Moran

MITUK admin -
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Withdrawal syndromes: lost in translation

Harriet Vogt -
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Jo Watson interviews Cathy Wield author of ‘Unshackled Mind’

Jo Watson -
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False Information in the UK package inserts for antidepressants

Peter Gøtzsche -
1
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The Price of Breaking the Silence of Abuse: Dignity, Justice and...

Laura Lopez-Aybar -
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Interview with Mary Ann Kenny, author of ‘The Episode’

MITUK admin -
1
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The Mental Health System in the UK Failed Us

Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD -
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Apply now for Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence...

Philipp Kernmayer -
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The ‘Female Perspective’ on Boarding School

Cathy Wield -
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De-Meaning Psychotherapy: The New Psychiatric Critic.

Jan Sheppard -
2
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IS THERE TRANSFORMATIVE MEANING IN MADNESS?

Katie Mottram -
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Disability, Work and Starmer’s Cruel Cuts

John Cromby -
7
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Barry’s story: a tenacious activist

Cathy Wield -
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Another perspective on the Randers case: psychiatry is in deep crisis

Peter Gøtzsche -
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The Sickness-Society: either you are well and functional — or sick and dysfunctional

Katarina Lundgren -
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Book review: ‘Drop the Disorder & Do Something’ edited by Jo...

Cathy Wield -
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The Ethics of Long-Term Psychiatric Drug Use and Why We Need...

Josef Witt-Doerring -
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Papering over the cracks, obscuring the problem. A review of Penny...

MITUK admin -
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At The Threshold Pacing – Tom Burgess shares his insights and...

Tom Burgess -
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New Script for mental health campaign – steps to a wellbeing...

Mad in Ireland -
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Jo Watson chats to Rob Wipond about his work and his...

Jo Watson -
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Jigsaw offers young people alternatives to traditional diagnostic narratives

Emma Hickey -
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Shocking BBC report: children subjected to abuse in mental health unit.

Cathy Wield -
1
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What if being miserable isn’t an illness?

John Cromby -
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Wishful thinking dressed up in scientific terminology: a reply to Awais...

Joanna Moncrieff -
1
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The Ouija Board and the Skeptic

Dan Nelson -
0
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A Psychoanalysis Lesson? Or how not to treat a mother.

Charlotte Salant -
0
ATW

Moving in and out of Psychiatric Institutions: Indian Women’s Distressing Experiences

Neha Jain -
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Art

The Guitars

Sally Paul -
0
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Mental Health – An Umbrella Term with Holes Under Which We...

Matthew Morris -
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‘What’s the Matter With Tony Slattery?

Lucy Johnstone -
1
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Challenging the status quo around eating disorder treatment

Marie Campion -
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No More Labels Please!

MITUK admin -
2
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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were...

Robert Whitaker -
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Different countries, same problems: The Guardian’s take on antidepressant withdrawal

MITUK admin -
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Doing Battle with Christmas Cheer

Cathy Wield -
0
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Part 4 Neurodiversity: New paradigm or Trojan Horse?

John Cromby -
10
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Part 3: Neuro-authenticity, neuro-identities, and the neuro-industry  

MITUK admin -
7
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Part 2: Are we all neurodivergent nowadays?

John Cromby -
6
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Part 1: Neurodiversity—What Exactly Does It Mean?

John Cromby -
4
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Out & About AD4E festival

Cathy Wield -
0
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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

Robin Youngson -
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Out & About – Boarding school survivors annual conference

Cathy Wield -
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How a Mental Health Nurse Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

Laura Mills -
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Finnish journalist shares true story

Jani Kaaro -
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Is there transformative meaning in madness?

Katie Mottram -
0
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Book review: Warm Tears in the Cold by Louise Bretland-Treharne

Cathy Wield -
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Why I Stopped Taking Antidepressants—and Was It Worth It?

Tomasz Starczewski -
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Vicarious identity- how we appropriate other people’s stories

Bruce Wilson -
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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

Peter Gøtzsche -
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Why do we lock up rape victims instead of rapists?

Catherine Heseltine -
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My impressions of psychiatry

Peter Brown -
2
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Out & About: growing the movement for radical change

Cathy Wield -
1
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Awais Aftab Responds to the STAR*D Scandal . . . And Digs...

Robert Whitaker -
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ATW

Brain Stew: An Interview with Myself

Cameron Terhune -
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Why Does a Parent Medicate a Child? An Interview with My...

Brooke Siem -
0
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Raising awareness of protracted withdrawal -a mental health nurse’s story

Laura Mills -
1
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The ‘not so clinical psychologists’ offer fresh perspective on mental health...

Cian Aherne -
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Book Review: Is Psychiatry a crime against humanity?

John Hoggett -
2
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Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal...

John Read -
1
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Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?

Dr. James Davies -
1
ATW

Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

Rohini Roy -
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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Allan Leventhal -
1
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Do Depression Pills Improve Quality of Life?

Peter Gøtzsche -
0
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Therapy Fails Minority Women in the UK, Study Finds

Richard Sears -
0
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Last chance: ECT Survey open until September 30th

MITUK admin -
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Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I...

Mitzy Sky -
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A Win for Science, with Profound Implications for Industry: FDA Rejects...

Peter Simons -
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The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark...

Brooke Siem -
0
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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey...

Pamela Williams -
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Violence Caused by Antidepressants Ignored Once Again by Psychiatrists

Peter Gøtzsche -
1
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Recent riots; a British Muslim woman reflects on how Islamophobia has...

Catherine Heseltine -
0
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Escaping the Hell of Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome

Tomasz Starczewski -
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Review of “Beyond Reason. Chronicle of a personal experience of madness”

Alan Robinson -
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The Dying of the Light: Norway’s “Medication-Free” Services for Psychotic Patients...

Robert Whitaker -
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Rethinking ‘Schizophrenia’

Eric Setz -
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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Bruce Levine -
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Co-Designed Deescalation Training Gains Traction Among UK Mental Health Staff

Richard Sears -
0
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My Story of Surviving Psychiatry

Catherine Heseltine -
1
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Stolen Lives Picnic on Prescribed Harm Awareness Day – July 29th...

Cathy Wield -
1
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Childhood Trauma Linked to Poorer Recovery from First Episode Psychosis, Study...

Richard Sears -
0
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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide...

Joanna Moncrieff -
1
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Why Democratize Psychiatric Research? A Call for Participatory Approaches

Ally Riddle -
0
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Book review of Credo: R. D. Laing and Radical Psychotherapy by...

Leon Redler -
0
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Unmasking the Politics Behind CBT’s Rise to Prominence

Ally Riddle -
1
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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Cathy Wield -
3
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Beyond Diagnosis is more than a book, it’s a movement …

Chana Studley -
1
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Patient Safety: A Letter to the President of the Royal College...

MITUK admin -
0
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What are we overlooking? Reviewing current and alternative treatments for psychosis

Neil Broatch -
1
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Living beyond labels: the example of a therapeutic community

David Stevenson -
1
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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

Crystal Nelson -
1
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Psychiatric assessments impacted by gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, study finds

Richard Sears -
1
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For suicide, hospitalisation may harm just as much as it helps

Peter Simons -
0
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How the medical profession pathologises emotions and the damage to patients

Phil Lane -
1
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I heard some voices and they were magnificent

Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD -
0
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Despite safety risks, prescribers receive little guidance of monitoring antipsychotic clozapine

Ashley Bobak, PsyD -
0
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Psychotherapy without antidepressants shows best results for depression

Peter Simons -
0
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“Empire of Normality: neurodiversity and capitalism” a review: The Empire Has...

John Cromby -
4
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Treating eating disorders involves shifting ‘Eating Disorder Voice’

Richard Sears -
0
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“A Dangerous Substance”: the impact of social media on youth mental...

Amy Biancolli -
0
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Global study questions antidepressant use, points to social determinants of mental...

Liam Gehrig Bach -
0
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From individual to society: new insights on mental health care’s role...

Ally Riddle -
0
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Witless and Dangerous? – Challenging some assumptions of the ‘schizo’ paradigm

Neil Broatch -
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From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox

Neil Broatch -
0
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Challenging “schizophrenia” narratives in psychology textbooks

Ally Riddle -
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From convenience to concern: ethical quandaries in mental health apps

Samantha Lilley -
0
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Antidepressant use linked to sexual dysfunction, why aren’t prescribers discussing it?

Richard Sears -
0
Art

That’s Not My Name: Is it a show or is...

Sammy Trotman -
1
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Peaceful reflections on the past from ‘One Who Got Away’

Anthony Fiddler -
0
Charles Spencer, A Very Private School
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Charles Spencer, brother of Princess Diana, was abused at boarding school....

Charlotte Beale -
2
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Untold- an excerpt from “Shut up and keep taking the pills!”

Hazel Amanda Jones -
0
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Critical social media literacy protects emerging adults

Ashley Bobak, PsyD -
0
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Do psychologists inhibit awareness of oppressive social structures?

Ally Riddle -
0
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Placebo Effect – not antidepressants – responsible for depression improvement

Peter Simons -
1
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When access becomes excess: the rise of opportunistic ADHD telehealth companies...

Fursan Sahawneh -
0
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SSRI exposure in pregnancy connected to delayed neonatal adaptation

Richard Sears -
0
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Antipsychotics lead to worse outcomes in first-episode psychosis

Peter Simons -
0
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It’s health’s illusions I recall, I really don’t know health at...

David Healy, MD -
1
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ADHD tests lead to mass overdiagnosis, researchers warn

Peter Simons -
1
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Psychiatrists call for transition to social rather than biological treatments

Kevin Gallagher -
0
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Challenging the biomedical imperative in global mental health with clinical-community psychology

Ally Riddle -
0
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ADHD drugs linked to Cardiovascular Disease

Richard Sears -
1
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In my career as a psychologist, I’ve seen many children misdiagnosed...

Shoshana Levin Fox -
1
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Bridging subjectivity and science: Lived Experience expands mental health research

Justin Karter -
1
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Not just a dream: finding the mental health community I’d been...

Robyn Thomas -
2
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From local insights to global impact: The role of indigenous psychologies...

Ayushi Jolly -
0
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Escaping the shackles of psychiatry: what I’ve seen and survived, as...

Cathy Wield -
2
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Plotting a research path to a new model of mental health...

Kelli Grant -
0
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Adding antipsychotics worsens outcomes in psychotic depression

Peter Simons -
0
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Researchers give high safety rating to ECT despite 69% risk of...

Richard Sears -
0
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Mainstream narratives: a person-centered paradigm of care is gaining favor in...

Samantha Lilley -
1
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Transforming mental health care with cultural narratives and metaphors

Justin Karter -
1
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The UK is helping people stop antidepressants – but still no...

MITUK admin -
1
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Stop using antidepressants except for “the most severe depression,” experts say

Peter Simons -
1
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Depression not so “Treatment-Resistant” after psychodynamic psychotherapy

José G. Luiggi-Hernández -
1
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Equal pay for Lived Experience: a prerequisite for authentic inclusion in...

Justin Karter -
0
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Beyond Pills: UK Parliament must support social and psychological services instead

Dr. James Davies -
2
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Animal study shows impact of prozac in pregnancy on the child

Peter Simons -
0
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Can trauma therapies unlock the prison of psychosis?

Kelli Grant -
1
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Eighty percent of the population will get treated for mental illness...

Peter Simons -
1
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What does resiliency mean in the context of oppressive systems?

Tiffani Elliott -
0
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Early intervention programs fail to help psychosis patients rebuild careers

Richard Sears -
0
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Brain changes from ECT linked to worse outcomes

Richard Sears -
0
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Menopause: over-medicalised & over-monetised?

Aneesh de Vos -
2
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Soul-destroying relations: The role of the family in Kafka’s Metamorphosis

John Fox -
2
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Global psychiatry’s attempt to excommunicate the former UN Special Rapporteur on...

Susan McPherson -
0
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Opinion: Stephen Fry says psychiatry saved him, but what about listening...

Owen Ó Tuama -
1
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Early intervention in ultrahigh risk for psychosis ineffective

Peter Simons -
0
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Collaborative study challenges traditional views of depression, enriches understanding

Justin Karter -
0
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Study highlights growing diversity of mental health models

Justin Karter -
1
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Social determinants in global mental health: Beyond pills and psychotherapy

Justin Karter -
0
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SSRI use during pregnancy alters the child’s brain development

Peter Simons -
0
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What does social inclusion for psychosocial disabilities mean in diverse contexts?

Justin Karter -
0
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Perimenopause, menopause and mental health

Tania Elfersy -
0
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Out of sight, out of mind. Rights, consent, and electroconvulsive therapy

Lisa Morrison -
1
Blogs

The STAR*D scandal: scientific misconduct on a grand scale

Robert Whitaker -
0
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Increasing Concerns

Cathy Wield -
1
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What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation

Joanna Moncrieff -
4
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Psychiatric frameworks fail to capture unusual perceptions and voice-hearing in youth

Richard Sears -
0
Blogs

Suicide most common cause of death in those treated for “Bipolar...

Peter Simons -
1
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Psychiatric journals’ pro-pharma publication bias hides suicide risk of antidepressants

Peter Simons -
2
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Courts’ hidden reliance on interpersonal influence affects individuals with psychosocial disabilities

Richard Sears -
0
Blogs

The radical politics of madness: An interview with Micha Frazer-Carroll

Justin Karter -
1
Blogs

Everyone’s Afraid of an Angry Woman: Honoring Sinéad O’Connor

KarinJervert -
0
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No benefit for adding antidepressants to CBT in severe depression

Peter Simons -
0
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My resignation from Mental Health America

Jill Edwards -
3
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Social Workers contribute to psychiatric oppression despite the field’s complicated relationship...

Tiffani Elliott -
0
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Antidepressants increase suicide attempts in youth; no preventative effect

Peter Simons -
0
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Disability research: inclusion in theory, exclusion in practice

Richard Sears -
0
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Harmed by Psychiatric Drugs Prescribed for Acid Reflux

Samantha Long -
2
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Researchers call on psychiatry to abandon biomedical framework

Kevin Gallagher -
0
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Psychosis patients prioritize non-psychosis issues in therapy, study finds

Richard Sears -
1
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Framing depression as a functional signal rather than a disease promotes...

Julia Lejeune -
0
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Depressed by happiness: emotional shutdown in the family and society

John Fox -
3
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Risks outweigh benefits for antidepressants in elderly, study concludes

Ashley Bobak, PsyD -
1
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Survivor activist wisdom for those supporting survivors of sexual abuse –...

Jacky Power -
0
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Study discovers gender-specific links between childhood trauma and psychosis

Richard Sears -
0
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Involuntary commitment for “substance use disorder” leads to poor outcomes

Ashley Bobak, PsyD -
0
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Patients express anger at doctors’ ignorance about antidepressant withdrawal effects

Tiffani Elliott -
0
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“Using creative resources to support children & teens” workshop with Dr...

Jacky Power -
0
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Antidepressants, antipsychotics, and benzos all increase suicide attempts in new study

Peter Simons -
0
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Patient information leaflets about electroconvulsive therapy are misleading patients

MITUK admin -
0
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Probiotics show promise as depression treatment

Richard Sears -
0
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Pharma CEO, others attempt contradictory critiques of serotonin-debunking study

Peter Simons -
1
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Socioeconomic factors are the key contributors to surge in suicide deaths,...

Peter Simons -
0
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Self-labelling with psychiatric terminology may be harmful for youth

Tiffani Elliott -
1
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Cancer risk higher for those on clozapine

Peter Simons -
0
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Psychiatric and behavioural genetics at the crossroads: Mary Boyle interviews Jay...

Jay Joseph PsyD -
0
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No difference in antidepressant effectiveness after genetic testing

Peter Simons -
0
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Why does research focus on treating depression rather than preventing it?

Richard Sears -
0
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Trauma-Informed Care and PTMF reduce self-harm, seclusion, and restraint in acute...

Richard Sears -
0
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Ketamine fails to beat active placebo for depression

Peter Simons -
0
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Do not prescribe antidepressants for mild to moderate depression or at...

Peter Simons -
0
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Psychiatry’s Loch Ness Monster: NICE shows nearly no evidence for ECT

Chris Harrop -
0
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Hyperbolic tapering off antidepressants limits withdrawal

Peter Simons -
0
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What is the risk of permanent sexual dysfunction from antidepressants?

Peter Simons -
0
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Antidepressants have destroyed my sexual function and range of emotions

Simon -
1
ATW

Campaign against ECT gains traction

Leah Harris -
0
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Lancet Psychiatry: We are undervaluing the placebo effect

Peter Simons -
0
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Breaking blind: antipsychotic drug efficacy may be overestimated

Peter Simons -
0
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The hidden risks of school mental health programmes

Richard Sears -
1
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Austerity is shattering lives. How should mental health professionals respond?

JP Marshall -
0
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The emerging field of ‘psychological humanities’ could broaden our understanding of...

Justin Karter -
0
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A case before the U.S. Supreme Court could surge the psychiatric...

David Walker, PhD -
0
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Prescribers often fail to support patients discontinuing antidepressants, study finds

Ashley Bobak, PsyD -
1
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The ‘capacity for suicide phenomenon’ and the Mental Capacity Act

Jane Fisher -
2
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Global survey leads to new recommendations for deprescribing psychiatric drugs

Samantha Lilley -
0
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The effect of SSRIs on adolescents is not well understood. But...

Neil Broatch -
1
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The Power Threat Meaning Framework – A critique of a critique

James Barnes -
0
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JAMA Psychiatry: No evidence that psychiatric treatments produce “successful outcomes”

Peter Simons -
0
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The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress

Robert Murphy -
0
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Tanya Frank on ‘Zig-Zag Boy: Madness, Motherhood and Letting Go: My...

James Moore -
0
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Mental health awareness campaigns may actually increase distress

Richard Sears -
0
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How psychiatry marginalizes those who contradict Western norms

Robert Murphy -
0
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Machine learning fails to identify depression based on neurobiology

Peter Simons -
0
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Paternalism and psychiatry

Cathy Wield -
2
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Physical activity improves symptoms of depression and anxiety

Richard Sears -
0
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Restless Heart Syndrome: just hearing about psychiatry is enough

X -
2
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Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction: understanding the neurobiology

Peter Simons -
1
ATW

‘More like spin-the-bottle than science’: My mission to find proper treatment...

MITUK admin -
1
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New guidance on antidepressant withdrawal for doctors

Peter Simons -
0
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Declining youth mental health may be driven by increased abuse and...

Amy Biancolli -
0
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Researchers question the foundational assumptions of neuropsychology

Peter Simons -
1
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The cost of being labelled as ‘mentally ill’

Daisy Simpson -
2
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UK suicide prevention policies prioritise surveillance over social change

Samantha Lilley -
0
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Mad Camp Summer 2023

Will Hall -
0
psychiatry kierkegaard freud
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I needed Kierkegaard and Freud; a psychiatrist prescribed cereal bars

Charlotte Beale -
0
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Major psychiatric constructs are religious, not scientific, leading psychiatrists acknowledge

Bruce Levine -
2
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Short-term psychodynamic therapy is more effective than CBT for depression, study...

José G. Luiggi-Hernández -
2
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Turning children’s behaviour into a medical problem does more harm than...

Samantha Lilley -
0
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Cognitive behavioural therapy beats drugs for depression, in the long term

Peter Simons -
1
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Why therapy and writing are similar struggles

Charlotte Beale -
0
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My experience of being subjected to ECT illegally without consent

Jon -
3
ADHD
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‘ADHD’ is a description of behaviour. But it’s falsely presented as...

Peter Simons -
2
hit by stuff
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‘I just keep getting hit by stuff’

Harvey Duke -
1
electroconvulsive therapy
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A survivor harmed by ECT challenges a psychiatrist who promotes it

Anonymous Contributor -
1
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How to create meaningful inclusion in mental health research

Julia Lejeune -
0
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How psychiatric drugs create a vicious cycle of effects, more drugs...

Neil Broatch -
4
electroconvulsive therapy
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Study that claims ECT is safe for children is flawed and...

Peter Simons -
0
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How the medical model disempowers voice-hearers

Ashley Bobak, PsyD -
0
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There is no valid evidence that genes play a role in...

Jay Joseph PsyD -
1
troubled teen lithium
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I was 15 and on lithium, then the ‘troubled teen’ industry...

Laura L. -
0
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Our Mad highlights of 2022

MITUK admin -
0
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Mad in the UK’s 10 most popular articles this year

MITUK admin -
0
Boarding school bad for children
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Boarding schools are bad for children. Why do they still exist?

Charlotte Beale -
3
depression eco destruction
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My depression was caused by eco-destruction, not brain dysfunction

Matt Colborn -
0
ketamine depression
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Prescribing ketamine for depression is not safe or effective, say researchers

Peter Simons -
0
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Book review: Drop the Disorder! by Adie Hulm

Adie Hulm -
1
Children young people mental disorder
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No, one in five children do not have a ‘mental disorder’

Charlotte Beale -
0
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New app aims to predict whether people with psychosis are worth...

Peter Simons -
1
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How to make Mental Health Act interviews more dialogical

Rob Manchester -
0
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Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s...

JP Marshall -
3
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Lithium use leads to chronic kidney disease

Peter Simons -
0
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What happened when I stopped believing in ‘mental health’

Charlotte Beale -
5
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Healing From Transgenerational Trauma: My Mum, My Daughter, & Me

Ruth Dixon -
0
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The Serotonin Zombie: Authors of New Study Try to Breathe New...

Peter Simons -
0
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Despite More Treatments for Depression, Prevalence Doesn’t Decrease—Why?

Peter Simons -
1
Blogs

‘What’s the Matter With Tony Slattery?’

Lucy Johnstone -
0
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Their Brains Are Not Broken

Louis Weinstock -
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