It has now been 11 years, two months, and five days since I took my last psychotropic medications, Prozac and Ativan. And I must confess that after all this time, recovery still feels impossibly out ...

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 ...

No Feeling Is Final with Honor Eastly – a show for anyone who’s ever wondered if life is worth living. And for anyone trying to better understand their friend, partner, or kid who’s wrestled with ...

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 ...

John Ioannidis is a Stanford professor, a physician, and one of the most eminent scholars in the world in the field of evidence-based medicine. He is a tenured professor at Stanford and has an ...

"When neuroleptic medication was used, the team became much more passive. They started to wait for the effect of the medication, and no longer had an active role with the families." Welcome to MIA ...

“It’s hard to get off narcotics because you love them so much—but it’s hard to get off psychiatric drugs because you fear them so much.” Today, he joins us on the Mad In America podcast to talk about ...

For nearly two decades, I have suffered from a debilitating condition known as PSSD, short for “post-SSRI sexual dysfunction”. Contrary to what the name suggests, the condition often encompasses a ...

The Vermont Longitudinal Study, which was led by Courtenay Harding, reported on the long-term outcomes of patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her ...

"Psychiatry has done an incredible job convincing the public that mental health disorders are real medical diseases. When I say that, people look at me like I’m out of touch. But no, I’m pretty up to ...

"We're taking people with brains that are working normally, and for the most part, pushing them to use antidepressant drugs which actually interfere with the normal working of the brain." The ...