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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health...

First published on Mad In America August 17th 2024 One man’s nightmare, hospitalizations, and recovery, as described by his mother and brother This is the story...

Insane Medicine, Chapter 9: The Worried Parent (Part 1)

A discussion of a diagnosis-free approach to working with families called the Relational Awareness Program (RAP) and how family relationships become solidified through “Emotion WARS.”

The UK is helping people stop antidepressants – but still no tapering advice available...

Pharmacists in the UK are being urged to assist people who want to stop antidepressants, with a detailed guidance published in the UK’s Pharmaceutical Journal, the Royal...

So What is Mental Disorder? Part 2: The Social Problem

Medical explanations for madness and the medical approach to treatment are grafted onto an older system of social organisation and control. Once medicalisation takes hold, it obscures the underlying functions, but the system remains, in essence, a moral and political enterprise.

Two poems: ‘Skin’ & ‘Darkness.’

SACRED SKIN   As she danced gracefully by me I saw her sacred satin skin it was beautifully translucent but the scars were wearing thin kris-crossed upon her entity woven realms...