ADHD diagnosis, which largely originated in the United States, began to spread to the rest of the globe in the late 1990s, ...

Ideally, there would be publicly funded voluntary respite services for people experiencing psychosis and other forms of ...

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Critical psychiatry should continue to point out where mainstream psychiatry falls short, but mainstream psychiatry must ...

My daughter, London, was only 12 years old when she tragically died from an overdose of pills, shortly after being prescribed an SSRI.

I am now almost completely released from the traditional mental health system, but as a paid peer worker I come back in five ...

This week, Mad in America examines research around increased suicide risk in children and adolescents related to bullying in ...

Lala Buckstar This week's Song of the Week is suggested by Lara Buckley (Lala Buckstar), who writes: "I am a musician and ...

Medical trainees using chatbots to do their homework and write their papers will not develop the skills needed to be a ...

The idea that the FDA black box warning led to increased suicide is just as easily refuted by the data now as when it was ...

For a person, the knowledge that their “illness is so severe that conventional treatment will not help” can of course be ...

From The Seattle Times: "A patient was already tied to the bed, their ankles and wrists bound by thick Velcro straps. From ...