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Ayurdhi Dhar interviews survivor-researcher Diana Rose on her long-term adverse experiences from psychiatric drugs, survivor knowledge, and the humiliations built into the system.

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The Damage Doesn’t End When the Drugs Do: Diana Rose on Psychiatry’s Long Shadow
Diana Rose on her long-term adverse experiences from psychiatric drugs, survivor knowledge, and the humiliations built into the system.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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We Need a Culture That Embraces Emotion Instead of Numbing It
by Marcus Orlando

Medicating depression and anxiety does nothing to address their root cause. SSRIs clear away the smoke without putting out the flame.
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We Need a Culture That Embraces Emotion Instead of Numbing It
Medicating depression and anxiety does nothing to address their root cause. SSRIs clear away the smoke without putting out the flame.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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The study describes how short visits, weak follow-up systems, and fragmented relationships leave responsibility for stopping antidepressants on the patient’s shoulders, even when guidelines call for regular review.

By Richard Sears
Easier to Refill Than Review: Antidepressant Prescribing in Primary Care
Researchers found that for many doctors, renewing antidepressant prescriptions feels safer and faster than helping people taper, and that most current interventions fail to address the pressures…
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November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Short-Form Video Linked to Worse Cognitive and Mental Health

Social media’s increasing use of algorithm-driven content that lasts only seconds may be worsening attention, inhibition, stress, and anxiety.

By Peter Simons

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Short-Form Video Linked to Worse Cognitive and Mental Health
Social media’s increasing use of algorithm-driven content that lasts only seconds may be worsening attention, inhibition, stress, and anxiety
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November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): It’s Not Just the Memory Loss
by Chris Harrop

A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities.
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): It’s Not Just the Memory Loss
A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Women Likely to Be Retraumatised by ECT: Disturbing Findings from a New Survey
by Lisa Morrison

The widespread use of ECT on women needs to be understood from a trauma-informed perspective.
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Women Likely to Be Retraumatised by ECT: Disturbing Findings from a New Survey
The use of ECT on women needs to be understood from a trauma-informed perspective. When I was most vulnerable, my rights were not protected.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Living Protracted
by Robyn Stojanovic

Protracted withdrawal has taken so much from so many of us—years of our lives, our identities, our relationships, and the chance to simply feel safe in our own bodies and minds.
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Living Protracted
Protracted withdrawal has taken so much from so many of us—years of our lives, our identities, our relationships, and the chance to simply feel safe in our own bodies and minds.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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A new consensus statement argues that medicine should treat mental and physical health as products of relationships with people, animals, and the living world.

By Kelly McFadden

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A Call for Ecological Medicine: Rethinking Mental Health as a Web of Connections
From social prescribing to forest bathing, a proposed Ecological Medicine model ties recovery to the quality of our relationships with the world around us.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Where the Bullet Stayed
Yishay Ishi Ron

Writing became the space between pain and acceptance, the only place where both could coexist without one needing to kill the other.
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Where the Bullet Stayed
Writing became the space between pain and acceptance, the only place where both could coexist without one needing to kill the other.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Leaders of Coordinated Specialty Care programs describe creative efforts to support friendship, faith, art, and civic life, along with the structural barriers they face.

By Liam Gehrig Bach

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How Early Psychosis Programs Help Young People Rejoin Community Life
Interviews with program leaders reveal how Coordinated Specialty Care teams try to make community life a “medical necessity” rather than an afterthought.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Safa Askeri joins Brooke Siem on the Mad in America #podcast to discuss his experience of antidepressant withdrawal and the gaslighting he was subjected to as he raised concerns with his doctors. #mentalhealth

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: Finding an Astronomical Perspective - A Conversation with Safa Askeri
Maybe you have this interpretation that you're not going to recover and you have permanent damage, but it's not like that. I'm very hopeful.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Can Brain Scans Help Us Understand Inequality’s Toll on Kids?

A Nature Mental Health study suggests a small pathway from income gaps to youth distress through brain structure and connectivity.

By Abby Cartus

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Can Brain Scans Help Us Understand Inequality’s Toll on Kids?
A large U.S. imaging study links income inequality to subtle brain measures and slightly higher youth distress.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Are Clinical Training Models Fueling Mental Health Stigma? New Study Says Yes

A Swedish survey of 700 providers shows that biological and cognitive-behavioral models correlate with higher stigma, while social explanations appear protective.

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Are Clinical Training Models Fueling Mental Health Stigma? New Study Says Yes
A Swedish survey of 700 providers shows that biological and cognitive-behavioral models correlate with higher stigma, while social explanations appear protective.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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About a quarter of “healthy” young adults already think they have ADHD (28%), according to new research. But that number jumped to more than half (58%) after they received an ADHD awareness campaign based on popular ADHD advocacy groups’ material.

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ADHD Awareness Campaigns Lead to Huge Jump in False Self-Diagnoses
More than half of young adults began to think they had ADHD after awareness campaign—despite not meeting criteria for this disorder.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Phenomenological Therapy: Centering Subjectivity
by Augustin Kendall

Phenomenological therapy can create space for authentic expression, sometimes for the first time in a client’s life.
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Phenomenological Therapy: Centering Subjectivity
Phenomenological therapy can create space for authentic expression, sometimes for the first time in a client’s life.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Our memorial post for Steven Morgan has been updated with a moving tribute by Jennifer Leigh Harrison, one of his oldest and closest friends.
Remembering Steven Morgan
Steven Morgan, who was well known for his activist efforts in challenging conventional psychiatry, which included writing for Mad in America, recently
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November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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ADHD Awareness Campaigns Lead to Huge Jump in False Self-Diagnoses

More than half of young adults began to think they had ADHD after awareness campaign—despite not meeting criteria for this disorder.

By Peter Simons
ADHD Awareness Campaigns Lead to Huge Jump in False Self-Diagnoses
More than half of young adults began to think they had ADHD after awareness campaign—despite not meeting criteria for this disorder.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Like to know more about Mad in America or rethinking psychiatry more broadly? On our #podcast, Robert Whitaker will answer your questions. Email questions to info@madinamerica.com by November 30 and we’ll pick a selection. #mentalhealth #QandA
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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New Evidence in Support of Tapering Protocols for First-Episode Psychosis
by Rob Wipond

The study shows that tapering can be successfully and relatively safely done by most people after first-episode psychosis.
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New Evidence in Support of Tapering Protocols for First-Episode Psychosis
The study shows that tapering can be successfully and relatively safely done by most people after first-episode psychosis.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Steven Morgan, who was well known for his activist efforts in challenging conventional psychiatry, which included writing for Mad in America, recently passed away. We would like to share some of his writings, music, and art, and some memories of Steven from our editors who knew him.
Remembering Steven Morgan
Steven Morgan, who was well known for his activist efforts in challenging conventional psychiatry, which included writing for Mad in America, recently
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November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Remembering Steven Morgan

Steven Morgan, who was well known for his activist efforts in challenging conventional psychiatry, which included writing for Mad in America, recently passed away. We would like to share some of his writings, music, and art, and some memories of Steven.
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Remembering Steven Morgan
Steven Morgan, who was well known for his activist efforts in challenging conventional psychiatry, which included writing for Mad in America, recently
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November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Psychiatrists Do Not Apologize
by Robert Dole

From the ages of 16 to 20, I was tortured by American psychiatrists who suffered under the delusion that homosexuality was a mental illness.
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Psychiatrists Do Not Apologize
From the ages of 16 to 20, I was tortured by American psychiatrists who suffered under the delusion that homosexuality was a mental illness.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Shared Decision-Making Cuts Coercion and Suicide Risk—But Only When It’s Genuine

Analysis of 140 studies shows that rights-based care improves recovery and reduces harm, yet can backfire when implemented superficially.

By Laura López-Aybar

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Shared Decision-Making Cuts Coercion and Suicide Risk—But Only When It’s Genuine
Analysis of 140 studies shows that rights-based care improves recovery and reduces harm, yet can backfire when implemented superficially.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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The Humanities Skills Everyone Wants Keep Getting Stripped From Their Source

Katz shows how universities and employers keep the fruit of the humanities while neglecting the tree.

By Ally Riddle

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The Humanities Skills Everyone Wants Keep Getting Stripped From Their Source
In a new article, Katz shows how universities and employers keep the fruit of the humanities while neglecting the tree.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM