How I learned to safely taper off psychiatric drugs
It was May 21st, 2019, when I woke up in a strange hotel-like room drenched in sweat, fully clothed with a winter jacket on...
Escaping the medication maze and beginning to feel again
There are as many different ways to approach this story as there are stories and tales within the story. This is more of a...
The Battle of the Peer
Peer support is simple. It is the very natural, very normal, coming together of humans where they share their experiences of living with very...
Childhood trauma and recent stressors rarely addressed; ECT given instead
By any standards many of us will probably look back on 2025 as among the world’s worst ever years. These days, when asked ’How...
Depression treatment: The public was betrayed, millions were harmed, and the mainstream media failed...
Last spring, it seemed certain that the story of the STAR*D scandal, which Mad in America has been reporting on for 14 years, would...