A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities. It turns out that wider adverse events are not rare; in fact, each ...
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 ...
A new consensus statement argues that medicine should treat mental and physical health as products of relationships with people, animals, and the living world. A new open-access consensus statement in ...
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 ...
Dr. Tia Trivisonno is a dedicated naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist committed to helping you take control of your health and vitality. She believes in shifting the focus from sick care to true ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 profound mental health crisis is gripping society, revealing the limits of mainstream models of health treatment and care. Capitalizing on this systemic neglect, a deluge of AI-powered chatbots ...
A qualitative study in Critical Public Health shows how soaring housing costs and fragmented transit push care workers to the edge, with consequences for well-being and the quality of care. Drawing on ...