After this happened to me, I know that I can handle anything in life, no matter how hard it is. Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I am the author of a memoir on ...

Treatment guidelines generally support trying to discontinue antipsychotics in patients diagnosed with “first-episode psychosis” after one or two years of initial use, but these guidelines also ...

In a new article published in the British Journal of General Practice, researcher and campaigner Stevie Lewis writes about her experience with antidepressant withdrawal. She points to four significant ...

A new international survey of 858 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) recipients has delivered stark findings relating to women’s experiences of this controversial procedure. The paper explicitly ...

It has now been 11 years, two months, and five days since I took my last psychotropic medications, Prozac and Ativan. And I must confess that after all this time, recovery still feels impossibly out ...

Steven Morgan, who was well known for his activist efforts in challenging conventional psychiatry, which included writing for Mad in America, recently passed away, at age 45. We would like to share ...

More than half of young adults began to think they had ADHD after awareness campaign—despite not meeting criteria for this disorder. About a quarter of “healthy” young adults already think they have ...

Behaviorism and Mental Health: Philip Hickey is a retired psychologist. He has worked in prisons (UK and US), addiction units, community mental health centers, nursing homes, and in private practice.

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

Eric Coates is a voicehearer who has resisted psychiatry, psychiatric drugs, and psychiatric definitions of what the psychiatrically afflicted and psychotically afflicted experience in many dimensions ...

Ekaterina Netchitailova, PhD, is a lecturer and writer. She has lived in four different countries and speaks four languages. Ekaterina is fascinated by different cultures and walks of life. She is ...

MIA Research News Team: Ayurdhi Dhar is a spotlight interviewer for Mad in America. She does some professoring (at the University of West Georgia) and academic writing, but mostly likes to be known ...