A new article published in Health Expectations finds that people withdrawing from psychiatric drugs often experience difficult withdrawal symptoms, a lack of support, trouble finding tapering ...

From Mad in the Netherlands: There is criticism of mental health care, particularly the way it labels and perhaps stigmatizes people by using classifications and diagnoses based on the DSM. There is ...

The first thing I’ll say about my experiences with healthcare while having an eating disorder is the fact that my eating disorder went undiagnosed for eight years. I think this fact speaks for itself.

Participants describe fear, seclusion, and stigma in a system that leans on involuntary treatment while underinvesting in community care and peer support. A new qualitative study from British Columbia ...

The first time I told a doctor about the weight on my chest, she didn’t ask if it felt like wet sandbags or a sleeping child or the ghost of every goodbye I’d ever swallowed. She typed two words: ...

Modern life can feel dis-jointed, chaotic. Phones ding, screens flash. Our attention is pulled in every direction but the present. While technology has increased access to online therapies and digital ...

Despite years of hype, new research reveals that predictive models often misclassify individuals at risk for suicide and fail to enhance real-world prevention. A review and meta-analysis in PLOS ...

A new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that where a person lives may partly explain longstanding racial disparities in the diagnosis of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs).

In her recent article in Sociology of Health & Illness, researcher Rajvinder Samra calls for a more inclusive understanding of lived experience research, one that captures not only how people explain ...