I nearly forgot—I had submitted one of my poems to Mad in America. That was before I learned they’d received funding from Open Society Foundations for their podcast. When an email arrived saying they’d published my piece, I was completely caught off guard—I hadn’t expected them to accept it at all.
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Unshrunk: Laura Delano’s breakaway from psychiatry
Unshrunk: Laura Delano’s breakaway from psychiatry
Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance is more than a memoir of Laura Delano’s journey through pain, survival, and recovery. It is a fearless, forensic examination of a psychiatric system that too often harms those it is meant to help.
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Protected: Personal update: Trying to look at the bright side of things
After kicking six different medications, this veteran now studies ‘overmedication’ in VA care
Congress wants to know if “overmedication” of prescription drugs by VA doctors has been a factor in veteran suicides.
After kicking six different medications, this veteran now studies ‘overmedication’ in VA care
Protected: Personal: Introspection
Michael Parenti: Against Psychopolitics
Many great public issues as well as many private troubles are described in terms of the “psychiatric” — often, it seems, in a pathetic attempt to avoid the large issues and problems of modern society.
— C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
The Illinois General Assembly may try to legalize assisted suicide next week.
Action Alert:
The Illinois General Assembly may attempt to legalize assisted suicide during next week’s Lame Duck session.
The Illinois General Assembly may try to legalize assisted suicide next week.
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Mental Fortitude
Ignorance is Bliss
This proverb is horribly misunderstood.
We wish to forget, and envy those that do not know, whatever is troubling us. Alternatively, those with little mental ability do appear to be happy. That isn’t wrong, per se, which is why it’s so often misinterpreted. They simply don’t worry.
Protected: Personal 09-26-2024: Some good news I guess ⚠️
Placebo effect for all psychiatric diagnoses “of considerable magnitude”
In a new study, researchers found huge improvements in psychiatric symptoms on placebo alone, particularly for depression and anxiety. They included the 10 least biased, most recent randomised controlled trials for nine common diagnoses in their attempt to quantify the improvements that could be expected without treatment.
Placebo effect for all psychiatric diagnoses “of considerable magnitude” (archived)
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