Boarding schools are bad for children. Why do they still exist?
Being sent to boarding school can cause severe harm to children. This is evident from testimonies gathered by therapists, journalists and courtrooms. So why...
Charles Spencer, brother of Princess Diana, was abused at boarding school. His story will...
On 10 March, the Mail on Sunday put Charles Spencer’s story about being sexually abused at boarding school on its front page. Spencer is...
Challenging a Diagnosis
Psychiatric diagnoses have far-reaching consequences for every area of your life: welfare, employment, health and travel insurance, physical and mental health assessment/treatment, adoption rights, and social stigma, to name but a few. Yet they are just subjective opinions with no scientific basis and can change over time.
Untold- an excerpt from “Shut up and keep taking the pills!”
Her parents brought her in. Voluntary admission. Marie was seventeen, thin and pale. She looked more like a ten-year-old. Her clothes were not what...
Placebo Effect – not antidepressants – responsible for depression improvement
In a study of fluoxetine (Prozac) for adolescents, researchers found that the placebo effect predicted good outcomes, but the actual drug treatment did not....