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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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?
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”?
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
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