The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs
Psychiatric drugs are supposed to solve our problems. Sometimes they make things much worse.
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There’s Nothing Wrong With Your Brain: Why Mental Illness Isn’t An Illness
We’re told a mental illness is just like a physical illness. It isn’t true, and it isn’t helpful either.
“It’s Not My Fault!” Blame, Responsibility and Mental Health
Emotional problems might not be our fault. But they're our responsibility to fix.
We're All Crazy: The Uses and Abuses of Psychiatric Diagnoses
Mental illness is becoming more and more common. Or is it?
Can’t I Take a Pill and Feel Better? Mental Health, Medication and Money
We have enormous faith in medicine and science. But psychoactive drugs are less effective and less safe than we have been led to think.
Psychoactive Drugs: How Big Pharma and Psychiatry Have Misled Us
Conventional wisdom is that doctors can safely solve our anxiety, ADHD, depression and psychosis. The truth couldn’t be more different.
How The Science of Mental Health Fails Us: Psychiatrists, Drug Companies and Universities
If a famous psychiatrist, particularly one from a famous university, says something about psychiatric drugs, our reflex is to believe. Watc
Do Antidepressants Work? Mental Health, Money and Medicine
Nearly 13% of Americans took antidepressants in the past month. But do these drugs work better than a placebo?
What Do I Do With My ADHD Child? Psychiatry, Counselling and the Medicalization of Emotional Problems
When a child is diagnosed with ADHD, the first solution many doctors propose is medication. It should be the last resort, not the first.
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