A journal commentary argues that headline-grabbing claims about trauma neurobiology and treatment have eclipsed more modest, well-supported findings. Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score has ...

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 use of coercive practices in psychiatry has been tied to worse recovery and critiqued for lacking ethical and legal justification. A new study, published in the Community Mental Health Journal, ...

HeartCore Collective is a healing community dedicated to supporting individuals navigating psychotropic medication withdrawal and recovery. We foster honest dialogue about the limitations of the ...

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 ...

Joining us for a roundtable discussion are Brooke Siem, David Antonuccio, Kim Witzak, Angie Peacock and David Healy. They discuss the challenges of openly discussing psychiatric drug withdrawal, the ...

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.

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: ...

From Angie Peacock’s YouTube channel. In this candid and deeply personal conversation, Brooke Siem, author of the award-winning memoir, May Cause Side Effects and Angie Peacock, whose story was ...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting on the overprescribing of psychiatric drugs in America. They would like to hear about your experiences and any stories they should look into. Share your thoughts ...

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 ...

I am a Baby Boomer. My generation was raised in a world that did not coddle us. I was an only child, spoiled in many ways, yet my parents did manage to teach me that I was not the center of the ...