Tag: forced treatment
When treatment makes you sick: the eating disorder clinic
Eight years after beginning ‘treatment’ for an ‘eating disorder’, I was eating worse than ever. Yet three years after quitting that ‘treatment’, food is...
When treatment makes you sick: the eating disorder clinic
Of course I wish I had never endured the years of brainwashing and lies in that clinic. But I had the good fortune to get out. I don’t know how to help others being told their ‘eating disorder’ is a lifelong sentence that requires constant management. I have my voice, and I will use it
Resettlement revisited in my novel Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home
When I switched from clinical psychologist to author, I couldn’t help taking some of my professional life with me.
Philosophy & Madness: A Discussion with Wouter Kusters on his new...
It was as if all my knowledge about, and philosophical encircling around, the heart of madness suddenly broke a limit, gravitated to a central core, and then exploded into freeing fragments radiating outwards towards an infinity of madness, which was both abysmal as well as ecstatic at the same time.
Appealing the FDA’s Denial of ECT’s Harms
More than 200 people signed an open letter to the FDA requesting electroconvulsive therapy’s safety studies and electrical dosing protocols.