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“The relevant question in psychiatry shouldn’t be what’s wrong with you, but what happened to you.” — Jacqui Dillon
For over twenty years, I lived in what I now call mental hellness, which isn’t a disorder in the DSM, although I suspect it would fit better than a few things that are.
Like many stories that pass through mental hellness, mine did...
Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. My name is Brooke Siem, and I am the author of the award-winning memoir on antidepressant withdrawal, May Cause Side Effects.
This series is a little different, as I am interviewing folks who have been through psychiatric drug with...
“There used to be a joke about me that I was unkillable because I had been face-to-face with death so often and come through it.” —Diana Rose
A few months ago when I interviewed Diana Rose, she said this to me with gut-wrenching humour that was so characteristic of her style. Diana Rose recently passed away and I remember her for her ...
Genetic testing to guide antidepressant selection is already being sold to the public, but the evidence is less than convincing. A new study failed to show efficacy in its primary outcome, its secondary outcomes imply a potential benefit for only 2% of patients, and it contradicts the findings of a previous study, leaving interpretation uncertain.
Many people ...
The mainstream psychiatry literature contains the common and mostly unchallenged claim that schizophrenia is roughly 80% heritable. This figure is reported largely uncritically in the media, on trusted websites, and by influential bloggers. To cite one...