If you’ve followed my work for any length of time, or you have been in my lectures or training, you’ll know I’ve been teaching about the instability and harm of psychiatric diagnosis for years. The cracks in the system are not new. They are structural. They are conceptual. They are epistemological.
Psychiatry and the DSM are Cornered – So They Reach for ‘Neuro’
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Millions of Dollars of Pharma Money Went to the DSM-5-TR Authors
Content Warning: Contains themes of industrial trauma, panic, and PTSD.
Dark Poetry Prompt: “A dream that refuses to end”
The Vengeance Sleep: A Dream That Refuses to End
What major historical events do you remember?
Republicans say that VA patients can get equivalent private-sector care anywhere in the U.S. Here’s a 50-state reality check.
For 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park, this was the hardest moment of his life. Not getting shot in combat. Not the years battling post-traumatic stress disorder or addiction. Not prison. It was leaving the U.S., a country he called home for nearly five decades.
Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.
I read an article today about a woman reflecting on her father’s PTSD. Her family had the same rule as mine—if you needed to wake Dad, you did so from the doorway to prevent the risk of an accidental reaction triggered by a flashback. I wonder how many children of military veterans have lived with this unspoken understanding, shaped by their parents’ trauma.
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stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a “chemical imbalance” to a “brain circuitry defect.” There is no more important institution in establishment psychiatry than the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and in 2022, psychiatrist Thomas Insel, NIMH director from 2002-2015, stated in his book Healing, “The idea of mental illness as a ‘chemical imbalance’ has now given way to mental illnesses as ‘connectional’ or brain circuit disorders.”
Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?
Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans
Key takeaways:
- 60 percent of the 16 million Americans who have served in the military supported Donald Trump, and 55 percent believed his policies would benefit veterans, but many veterans have been fired due to massive cuts by Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
- Nearly 6,000 veterans have already lost their jobs due to the cuts, and an estimated 100,000 veterans could be out of work when all is said and done, with around 36,000 disabled veterans facing unemployment and difficulty in finding private-sector jobs.
- The federal government plays a critical role for veterans, providing professional opportunities and support for those transitioning from military to civilian life, but the mass firing of federal workers, including many veterans, will have devastating effects on communities and individuals across the country.
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