Growing up on SSRIs: A withdrawal, taper & recovery story
What happens when a 14-year-old girl is told she has a “chemical imbalance” and will need SSRI medication for life? And what happens twelve...
To be seen without being evaluated
Before anything else, he asked me to pause.
“Just notice how you’re feeling,” he said.
“Physically. Emotionally. Whatever’s there.” So I did.
I sat in the stillness...
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...
How mental health ideology perpetuates a war on emotions
Mental-health “epidemics” now dominate public discourse, with soaring rates of anxiety, depression, autism, bipolar disorder and ADHD diagnoses, to name a few. At the...
Trinity study: Withdrawal from psychiatric drugs “stuff of demonic nightmares”
A new qualitative study from Trinity College Dublin reveals the emotional and physical toll of psychiatric drug withdrawal—and the lack of professional support available...